Students use Comic Life to tell the stories of some of their favorite artists. These projects are a great way for students to demonstrate what information they’ve learned while researching while also integrating technology and literacy into an art course.…
We Made An Infographic In Comic Life!
So it’s an infographic about Comic Life made in Comic Life posted on the Comic Life blog… it’s all very meta.
Why Libraries Are Awesome
There are some incredible people out there that we might never get to meet. Thanks to the internet, however, we can cross paths with each other in moments of greatness. This, my friends, is one of those moments… Please allow…
End of Year Reflection Lesson
Paul Hamilton has given us lots of examples of how to use Comic Life in the classroom. He’s delightful about tossing links our way via Twitter. Here’s a video he created about using Comic Life for iPad as a project…
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!