Students use Comic Life for iOS to study for exams. It’s a great way for students to engage with material, processing bits and pieces of the lessons into a storyboard.
The Science of Food
Year 8 students at Clevdon create a report on food testing using Comic Life for iPad. Not a bad way to take an exam. Thanks to Gavin Smart for posting.
Wired Educator Review
Kelly Croy, Editor and Senior Writer of Wired Educator, recently reviewed Comic Life 3. Holy bananas, you guys, they loved it! You can find the original post on the Wired Educator site, but I’ve included most of it below. It’s…
Comic Life for iOS Update!
Hello everybody! Just wanted to let you know that we have put out an update for Comic Life for iOS, the most awesome photo comic creation software around. (Not that we’re biased or anything). Comic Life for iOS is now…
Comic Life 2 for iOS Featured!
Comic Life 2 for iOS has a sweet two page spread in MacFormat‘s latest issue! They did a whole article on the amazingness of our photo comic creation app and walked their readers through creating a comic. Now that’s what…
Hooray For The Humanities
Here’s a great one page comic about teaching humanities from Joanne Harris. It’s short, simple and packed with information. Enjoy!
Comic Life 2.1.5 Is Released!
Come one! Come all! Come update your app! Comic Life 2.1.5 is out today. Enjoy making your comics on the go with the latest update.
Adding Tech Spice To PE
A big thanks to @TechforPE (Jorge Rodriguez) for posting a video about using Comic Life posters and augmented reality in the classroom. Here are some of the lesson details from PE Stations at Harvard Elementary: • Portfolio set up •…
Gearing Up For The School Year!
Hello! Good gravy, is it almost September already?! So much has happened this summer. We’ve been cooking up some things here in the plasq lab of photo comic creation, but we’ve also been hearing from you! Teachers are already posting…
Arts Award
Hello All! We have some great news to share. This July Comic Life is helping sponsor the Arts Award Conference in Yorkshire, England! Wondering what Arts Award is? Here’s a little information on the program from one of their program…
Book Summary
Just a short post highlighting this great comic page from @missjillyteach. Her students put together comic pages summarizing John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars.
Biking For A Cause
Please allow me to introduce you to Frederick. Frederick Sarran is a student for a Master in Autism, a cyclist, a tech enthusiast, and he has a plan to wrap all of those things into one fundraising effort. Frederick works with…
Bloom's Taxonomy
A little while back we heard from the wonderful people over at AppsInClass about using Comic Life to reach all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. John wrote a great post breaking down the possible uses of Comic Life. Check out the…
Open Call: Making Comic Life The Test
Helloooo! So, in replying to the request to write about Comic Life as an assessment tool I seem to have missed the mark slightly. Marilee was looking for ideas and discussion about thinking outside the box when considering new ways…
Comic Life as an Assessment Tool
Hello! Thanks to our fancy schmancy suggestion bar at the bottom of our posts we recently had a request to write about Comic Life as an assessment tool. And that’s just what we’re going to do. First off I want…