Friday, September 14, 2012

Comic strip insanity!

I came upon this website when I decided to be creative one day.  I love comic books and graphic novels and remember a project in my high school English class where we had to create one abouts any scene of our choice from the book The Great Gatsby.  I found this website, but the user would have to create an account.  A million ways on how to utilise this tool in a classroom popped into my head.  I felt that a younger generation would love to have a creative project like this that could be used in any class assignment from a book report, to a funny comic strip on their dog for show and tell.  By using this tool in a classroom, it allows the students to be able to use programs to create a story that could challenge their creative side as well.

It allows you to create a simple three-pan comic strip, or a story that could take up a whole page.  Even if a student doesn't want to use the characters they are provided with through the program they can print the blank frames out and draw a comic themselves.  Although I'm no child...I am guilty of doing this myself.  So I feel that this could be a good non-print tool that all age groups can easily understand and use.

Below is the URL for this specific program. 

http://stripgenerator.com/strip/create/

2 comments:

  1. what a cool site! i know that macs come with a program called comic life, which is similar. when we get to the class on graphic novels, maybe we will experiment with this.

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