Comic Life

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Comic Life

• Strengthening Writing to Communicate

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Agenda

• Outcomes 3 min.
• See the Possibilities 10 min.
• Extensions 5 min.
• Hands-on exploration of ComicLife 25 min.
• Share 10 min.
• Review outcomes 3 min.

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Outcomes

• NETs 1 Creativity and Innovation Students
  demonstrate creative thinking, construct
  knowledge, and develop innovative products and
  processes using technology.
• b. create original works as a means of personal
  or group expression.f personal or group
  expression.
• NETs 4 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and
  Decision Making
• b. plan and manage activities to develop a
  solution or complete a project solution or
  complete a project
• MLR- Writing
• Students write to express their ideas and
  emotions, to describe their experiences, to
  communicate information, and to present or
  analyze an argument.

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Todays Outcomes

• Investigate ways to integrate the application
  into curriculum
• Learn the basics of Comic Life
• Understand how technology addresses writing
  instruction in the digital age

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Literacy has always meant being able to consume
and produce the media forms of the day, whatever
they may be. For centuries this has meant
writing essays and reports filled with words and
paragraphs. Now it means blending words with
images, sounds, music, video, and other media to
create the new communication default the
multimedia collage, in the form of web pages,
digital stories, YouTube creations and much
more. It is up to us to help digital kids
migrate from text centrism to media collage
literacy in creative, thoughtful, ways. We need
to help them cultivate their new media talents,
adopt art as the 4th R and use storytelling to
convey their ideas in rich, compelling ways. We
need to help them create media, stories and
projects that are articulate and transformative.
And we need to help them collaborate and share
their work and talents within the collaborative
community of the social web.
Dr. Jason Ohler, Professor of Educational
Technology, University of Alaska
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WebQuest with Comics
http//www.grammarmancomic.com/wquestmenu.html
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Enhance a Word Wall
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Language Arts

• Grammar
• Dialogue
• Literary devices
• Vocabulary use
• Spelling
• Riddles, puns,idioms
• Poetry interpretation
• Spanish/French

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Art

• Analysis
• Comparisons
• Historical context
• Periods
• An artists growth change
• Procedures to follow
• Studio rules

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Literature Historical Setting

• Integrated units of study
• Period newspaper
• Shakespearean scenes
• Create a visitors guide to your class, public
  library, fire station, etc.
• Use another language

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What are the delegates thinking?

• http//www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitu
  tion_founding_fathers.html

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Social Studies Comics

• Biographical
• Debate between two _______
• A timeline
• Explanation of a law
• Explanation of specialized words
• http//www.mainememory.net

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Science

• Print the comic.
• Leave the speech bubbles empty.

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Math Comics
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Whole Class Collaboration
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Formats Photo Sources

• BeforeAfter
• YesterdayTodayTomorrow
• CauseEffect
• Interview
• Procedure
• How-to Instructions
• Modify KWL and 3-column journal
• Use as a choice in RAFT

• Photos you take
• Photos the kids take
• Legos
• Clay figures
• Paper dioramas
• Free clip art on the Internet
• Scanned drawings

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We forget lectures.We remember stories.
Dr. Jason Ohler

• Use digital stories to instruct.
• Create a story about a concept, unit or idea.
• Handout with instructions
• Photo resources

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Todays Outcomes

• Investigate ways to integrate the application
  into curriculum
• Learn the basics of Comic Life
• Understand how technology addresses writing
  instruction in the digital age

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Workshop Resources

• http//www.digmo.co.uk
• http//www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Marc_Chagal
  l/Biography/
• https//smeech-presos.wikispaces.com/ComicLife?f
  print
• http//www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/pribadeneira/gener
  ation_yes_class.cfm
• http//staff.4j.lane.edu/haugen/