Comic Life
Comics are a great way to encourage the reluctant reader. Comic Life is an application with allows a person to make comics using your own images and turn them into projects. It is packed with everything you need to bring these images to life. It is a valuable resource and can be implemented across the entire curriculum. Comic life activities cater for a range of learning environments including whole class work to small collaborative projects right down to the individual who like to create solo.
A picture is worth a thousand words. With this in mind students using comic life have access to templates compatible for creating research projects, science reports and history presentations. Comics provide narrative experiences for students just beginning to read and for students acquiring a new language. Students follow story beginnings and endings, plot, characters, time and setting, sequencing without needing sophisticated word decoding skills. Images support the text and give students significant contextual clues to word meaning. Comics act as a scaffold to student understanding. Comic Life also caters for those fluent readers having difficulty with their writing. Using a sequence of pictures put together in a comic book format will help the student to create language skills by way of visual beginnings to a story, the body and subsequent conclusion. Examples.
A picture is worth a thousand words. With this in mind students using comic life have access to templates compatible for creating research projects, science reports and history presentations. Comics provide narrative experiences for students just beginning to read and for students acquiring a new language. Students follow story beginnings and endings, plot, characters, time and setting, sequencing without needing sophisticated word decoding skills. Images support the text and give students significant contextual clues to word meaning. Comics act as a scaffold to student understanding. Comic Life also caters for those fluent readers having difficulty with their writing. Using a sequence of pictures put together in a comic book format will help the student to create language skills by way of visual beginnings to a story, the body and subsequent conclusion. Examples.
The following activities are designed to assist parents to become familiar with their children’s use of technology in your classroom and beyond.
Activity 1
Using Comic Life create a "How To?" story board for one of you and your child's favourite activities e.g. How to bake a loaf of bread? How to use a life straw?
Using Comic Life create a "How To?" story board for one of you and your child's favourite activities e.g. How to bake a loaf of bread? How to use a life straw?
Activity 2
Create a comic using your favourite family photos. You may even want to take new ones specially for the comic strip. Remember to add speech bubbles for all the dialogue.
Activity 3
Create an award for that special person in your life. Hint: Mothers Day, Fathers Day or Birthday.
Create a comic using your favourite family photos. You may even want to take new ones specially for the comic strip. Remember to add speech bubbles for all the dialogue.
Activity 3
Create an award for that special person in your life. Hint: Mothers Day, Fathers Day or Birthday.