Free tools to create comic strips Creating cartoons and comic strips for educational uses can be quite interesting task. It obviously pushes the reluctant students to participate more and rub the dust off their brains. Students love to work in groups and compete with each other especially when there are motivating incentives for them. One of these incentives is the integration of comic strips into parts of your lesson. Thanks to web 2.0 technologies , educators and teachers will never run short of new innovative ideas. 1- Witty Comics Witty Comics is a cool website. Pixton is a cartoon creation tool that allows its users to create awesome comics. 3- Make Belief Make Beliefs is another awesome comic strip creation tool. 4- Chogger Choggers has a good editing tool that allows users to create their own cartoons out of imported photos. 5- Cartoon for The Classroom Cartoon for the Classroom is a great resource of comic strips for educators and teachers. 6- Anmish Anmish is a fun web application.
Hyperlinked Writing in the Classroom- From Theory to Practice This is the follow up post to the theoretical Wondering About Hyperlinked Writing. The post ended with Now…on from the wondering, theory and resources…to the practice in the classroom. I am ready to bring hyperlinked writing (and reading) as an important genre into the classroom! Can one just start “throwing” hyperlinked writing” at our students (or teaches for that matter) at any time, at any age? Is hyperlinked writing part of a process? Hyperlinked writing is more than citing your sources, it is a direct manifestation of writing for an audience. A quick check-in with my Common Core Guru, Mike Fisher, author of “Cure for the Common Core“, told me that I was on the right track. You are actually addressing several capacities in what you’re describing: Capacity 3: Students respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.Capacity 5: They value evidence. It shows the intent to guide the reader to: There are other reasons why we link digital content Yarn Blogging Like this:
SchoolFamily: The basics on literary ter... HOW TO IMPLEMENT A GAME-DESIGN PROGRAM IN YOUR SCHOOL 2/5/2013 By: Laura Minnigerode Game design can be a powerful motivator, bringing together student ideas, problem solving and other important computational thinking skills, such as collaboration and persistence for working on difficult problems. There are a variety of ways to implement a program of this kind. Here are some excellent resources to get you started. ❏ AMD Foundation Changing the Game program: AMD.com/changingthegame AMD’s site contains information for using game design in schools. ❏ Diana Laufenberg’s blog blog includes helpful resources for building an architecture for participatory media for students. ❏ Globaloria www.globaloria.org This site will guide you toward more information about the Globaloria curriculum, support and help desk information, and highquality professional development resources. ❏ ISTE ’s Computational Thinking Toolkit ❏ Learning Games Network Game Design Tool Kit
Tip of the Iceberg Création de bandes dessinées avec des super héros Marvel Pour amuser les petits et les grands, Marvel propose sur son site Web une application en ligne plutôt bien fichue pour créer des bandes dessinées avec des super héros principalement masculins : Hulk, Spiderman… On peut soit créer une planche de quelques cases (Create a comic strip), soit se lancer dans la création d’un album complet (Create a comic book) comportant quelques pages (entre 1 et 22) de styles différents. La première étape consiste un choisir un modèle de planches parmi celles que propose l’outil. Ensuite, on place des personnages sur les cases, on y ajoute des objets, des fonds de page, des dialogues sous forme de bulles et même des effets sonores qui apparaissent sous forme d’onomatopées du genre Boom, Crack, Smek… Les différents objets se placent par glisser déposer sur les cases de la bande dessinée. Les objets sont librement positionnables, on peut changer leur taille, les orienter, les superposer, leur appliquer une rotation… C’est assez bien réalisé.
jason ohler : Digital Storytelling - DAOW of storytelling The DAOW of literacy in a storytelling environment Digital, Art, Oral and Written literacies- the DAOW of literacy - are crucial for personal, academic and workplace success in the Digital Age and blend very well in a digital storytelling environment. Why is oral storytelling important in digital storytelling? Because it is how storytelling began and has endured for millennia. Why is writing important in digital storytelling? Because while writing may not be the final product of a digital story, it is the pathway students must take to create it. Why is art important in digital storytelling? Because in a world in which students are required to create websites, digital stories and other forms of new media as part of their school work, art is becoming the next literacy, or 4th R. Why is digital literacy important? Digital literacy = using technology effectively, creatively and wisely The "D" in the DOAW of literacy stands for Digital. Media literacy as a subset of digital literacy Media fluency.
The Pixar Touch - history of Pixar - Blog - Pixar story rules (one version) Pixar story artist Emma Coats has tweeted a series of “story basics” over the past month and a half — guidelines that she learned from her more senior colleagues on how to create appealing stories: #1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. #2: You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different. #3: Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. #4: Once upon a time there was ___. #5: Simplify. #6: What is your character good at, comfortable with? #7: Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. #8: Finish your story, let go even if it’s not perfect. #9: When you’re stuck, make a list of what WOULDN’T happen next. #10: Pull apart the stories you like. #11: Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. #12: Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. #13: Give your characters opinions. #16: What are the stakes?
CSE 786 - Game Groups Group Assignments Technology Teams Each class member will be part of a technology team, exploring the latest trends, tools, and technology for a particular area. Game Design Each game development team will periodically need to update their documentation and web materials. Spring 2014 Game Groups Fall 2013 Game Groups Spring 2013 Game Groups Autumn 2012 Game Groups Spring 2012 Game Groups Spring 2011 Game Groups Spring 2010 Groups Spring 2009 Groups Spring 2008 Groups Spring 2007 Groups Spring 2006 Groups Educational Technology in ELT Créer un comic sur Internet avec des personnages Marvel Mai 2012. L’un des films du moment est The Avengers (réalisé par Joss Whedon) qui met en scène les personnages de la série de comics du même nom : les Vengeurs créés par Jack Kirby et Stan Lee pour Marvel Comics. Dans cette aventure avec une distribution impressionnante de personnages : Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, la Veuve noire ou encore Oeil-de-faucon et Loki, un scénario rythmé, beaucoup d’ingéniosité et d’effets spéciaux font le succès de ce long métrage. Pour des activités en espace public numérique (EPN) et pour des internautes créatifs, la firme Marvel a mis en place un générateur en ligne et gratuit de Comics disponible à cette adresse : . Créer un comic Marvel : mode d’emploi En amont, il faut choisir si l’on désire créer un strip (quelques vignettes de BD Comics) « Create a comic strip » ou se lancer dans la réalisation d’une page (ou d’un livre entier) de comics « Create a comic book ». (Via Diprog.fr)
Digital Histories VAELN: Great new career readiness... 10 Ways to Create Comics Online Creating cartoons and comic strips can be a good way to get reluctant writers writing. While creating comics you and your students can work through the elements of fiction in a context that is fun and familiar to them. Witty Comics provides a simple platform that students can use to create two character dialogues. To use Witty Comics students just need to select the pre-drawn background scenes and the pre-drawn characters they want to feature in their comics. Writing the dialogues is the creative element that is left to the students. Artisan Cam is more than just a comic creator, it is a comprehensive collection of online art activities. The Super Hero Squad invites kids to create their own super hero comic strips and comic books. Pixton is a drag-and-drop cartoon creation tool which allows anyone regardless of artistic ability to create comics. Strip Generator allows anyone, even people who claim they can't draw, to create a good-looking black and white comic strip.