I loved this project.
I could play with the Comic program for hours and I have. As I worked with my pictures, I started to realize I needed to take more pictures in general.
I have become familiar with this program and I think I would be able to teach my students how to use it. I love this project so much - I really want to buy the program, but I need to look into it.
My thought was that I could use it to create a really nice wedding book for my wedding next year, and then I wouldn't have to pay someone else to make the book. That would be less costly and much more fun for me.
With this project the program is so accessible to general people that children will not have any problem with making posters or create stories. I think that this program is pretty easily self taught. Kids would love to just go in and play with it by themselves.
This would be a great way for students we relate their reading to real life. After reading a book instead of a book report they could act the story out with a group of kids and take pictures, then retell the story in a comic page. It could be the whole story or just on scene... just about anything.
The comic pages would also be a good way to show a process, anything from how electricity works to how to line up for lunch. The comic program would be great for those students who hate reading and writing but love to read comic books. They would be writing because they would have to tell the story and maybe if the students did other comic stories on a regular bases there could be a whole library available for the students to read. That would allow those who were into the comic books to have something they wanted to read.
There are so many possibilities and I am very excited.
I can't wait to take more picture and play.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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I love the idea of using Comic Life to show a process. Aside from the obvious benefits of research and writing, there would be opportunities to teach children about the principles of photography and graphic design--elements that are useful for many other projects.
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