Education

Art History Comics

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.…

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…

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…

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.…