We absolutely love when people do creative things with Comic Life! And I recently found out about a Kickstarter Project called The Children’s Vampire Hunting Brigade, a graphic novel mini-series that will be using Comic Life for the lettering. The…
Grandpa Grumpy
If there were awards for Best Grandpa Ever and a category for Tech Savvy it would have to go to Jay. He know’s his way around a computer, casually telling me, “I programmed my first computer in 1961 and find…
eBook Tutorial in Comic Life
Today’s post packs a double punch! You get a great how-to guide for making eBooks aaaaand you get a sweet example of how you can use Comic Life to put together how-to guides. Two birds. One post. What more could…
Global Collaboration
I love to see educators embracing available technology with creative projects. We’ve seen some incredible ideas coming from @PEGeeks, in particular a post by Jon Tait about a recent transatlantic effort. The students of Merton School, Wisconsin and Woodham Academy,…
Advertisement Analysis
Comic Life can be used to break down images. Elements like speech balloons and arrows can be directed to pin point areas of a picture, explain what’s being represented and tease out meaning. Students at Flordale primary school in Mississauga,…
How-To Aurasma Comic
Fresh from the A Matter of Literacy blog, I give you an Aurasma Comic Tutorial! Aurasma is another tool for bringing augmented reality into your world. Not only is the tutorial below handy, it’s also a great use of Comic…
The Hunger Game
PGDE students create a game called “You Are What You Eat” during Mayhoon Ed Tech Showcase. In the game students put two characters head to head, pitting exercise and food intake against each other. From the Gamify Your Teaching Workshop…
Augmented Reality In Comics
Now this… This is cool. Students are able to create worlds where dragons fly out of school walls?! Thanks to the advances in technology (and general awesomeness of the educational tools out there) classrooms can now be transformed into the…
Creative How-To Guides
We are fortunate to get so many great ideas from Comic Life users around the world. Lately we’ve seen a lot of examples of using Comic Life to create how-to guides for everything from using microscopes to creating secure passwords.…
Compilation of Comic Life Tips
Hello all! I created a version of the tips and tricks from the Comic Life Tip of the Week series and put them in an easy to read PDF. You can view and download the Comic Life Tip Handbook in PDF…
Out And About: BETT and TCEA 2013
We love hearing feedback from Comic Life users, which is one reason why we are always happy to go to Education Technology conferences. For the first time ever plasq made the trip across the pond to London for the BETT…
Tip Of The Week: Fading Balloons
In Comic Life 2 you can change the gradients of balloons to make it look like they are fading into the background of a page. Here’s how!
George and the Dragon
Students from English Martyrs Catholic Primary School in Oakham, Rutland make some great comics using Comic Life. This comic about the tale of George and The Dragon was hand drawn by Rebecca and Adam. The students in the class used…
Teaching Letter Sounds
Bobbie of Bobbie Tales uses Comic Life to illustrate examples of letter sounds in words. In the two-page comic below she emphasizes the schwa (ə) sound formed by the letter A. It’s more fun than a sound chart, wouldn’t you…
Fast and Easy Newsletters
While the high school in this comic is real (it’s my alma mater) the newsletter shown here is not. I created this comic as an example of how Comic Life can be used to put together a information packet quickly…