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In this post I would like to talk about comics and why they are a great tool that we can use in education.
As you may know, comics had been very popular among young people because the way that combines text with images makes them very attractive and nowadays comics are starting to be recognized as one type of literature that can have a really good quality. Using comics, also helps the students to be engaged to reading and have a positive attitude towards literature.
I have created a comic using StoryboardThat and I’ve found it very interesting because is very intuitive and easy to use for primary students. This tool has a wild range of feature that helps the students to be creative with their comics. Even doe I really recommend the use of this app, there is a negative point that I found using it. This issue is that the free account only allows to create 3 comics of a maximum of 6 cells each so it’s impossible to do a long comic. Anyway, I really recommend using this tool in classroom because as I've said before is an easy tool and is safe for the students to work on it.
After looking at the other tools, I thought that StoryboardThat was very intuitive and easy to use. The first thing that I did was to think about the main message of the comic that I was about to create and I thought that it was very interesting to explain how hard it can be to be a new student in a school. After, I choose the main characters for my comic: Joe, a new student of the school and Amanda, a very kind girl that helps Joe in his first day of class. We all know how difficult can be arriving to a new school without knowing anyone, so with this comic I would like to help students to empathize with new classmates, so they feel how scary can be to be in a new school.
In the process of creating the comic, I had some problems with the size of the text because it was too big to fit in the text balloons, so I had to change the size of the comic to make it a little bit bigger, so I think that It would be nice if there were smaller letters.
When I was designing the characters, I found very easy and fast to change their facial expressions and their gestures which is a very good point of this app.
After finishing the design, I saw that is very easy to share and the user is able to download it in many ways such as a PDF, as a presentation or as an image, this is a great feature for a free tool but the only negative point of this is that the app introduces a really big water mark in each vignette.
This is my comic, hope you find it interesting, thanks for your attention!
In this post I would like to talk about comics and why they are a great tool that we can use in education.
As you may know, comics had been very popular among young people because the way that combines text with images makes them very attractive and nowadays comics are starting to be recognized as one type of literature that can have a really good quality. Using comics, also helps the students to be engaged to reading and have a positive attitude towards literature.
But we, as teachers, should not only promote reading, it’s also very important to encourage literature production from our students. For this reason, I found some very interesting apps to create comics online, this app are:
• Pixton
• Creaza
I have created a comic using StoryboardThat and I’ve found it very interesting because is very intuitive and easy to use for primary students. This tool has a wild range of feature that helps the students to be creative with their comics. Even doe I really recommend the use of this app, there is a negative point that I found using it. This issue is that the free account only allows to create 3 comics of a maximum of 6 cells each so it’s impossible to do a long comic. Anyway, I really recommend using this tool in classroom because as I've said before is an easy tool and is safe for the students to work on it.
After looking at the other tools, I thought that StoryboardThat was very intuitive and easy to use. The first thing that I did was to think about the main message of the comic that I was about to create and I thought that it was very interesting to explain how hard it can be to be a new student in a school. After, I choose the main characters for my comic: Joe, a new student of the school and Amanda, a very kind girl that helps Joe in his first day of class. We all know how difficult can be arriving to a new school without knowing anyone, so with this comic I would like to help students to empathize with new classmates, so they feel how scary can be to be in a new school.
In the process of creating the comic, I had some problems with the size of the text because it was too big to fit in the text balloons, so I had to change the size of the comic to make it a little bit bigger, so I think that It would be nice if there were smaller letters.
When I was designing the characters, I found very easy and fast to change their facial expressions and their gestures which is a very good point of this app.
After finishing the design, I saw that is very easy to share and the user is able to download it in many ways such as a PDF, as a presentation or as an image, this is a great feature for a free tool but the only negative point of this is that the app introduces a really big water mark in each vignette.
This is my comic, hope you find it interesting, thanks for your attention!
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