Building Full Color Halftone Full color halftone is a trademark of comic design, but it is difficult to create without advanced graphics tools… until now! Comic Life 3.5 has an easy to use tool for creating full color halftones in just a few…
BreakAppz makes resources designed for teachers by teachers.
We recently learned about the fantastic educational resources created by Dale Sidebottom over at BreakAppz. The wonderful news is that is was all created with the help of Comic Life! Dale has been sharing his amazing resources on Twitter, Facebook and…
Comic Life Athletics Resource Cards by Event
Megan Bowe posted the following amazing Comic Life Athletics Resource Cards over at pescholar.com – and we just had to share them with you all! Please visit pescholar.com for downloadable copies of the Athletics Resource Cards that cover the following sports; Discus, High-Jump, Hurdles, Javelin, Long-Jump, Shot-Putt, and Sprinting.…
Interested In A Career Change
Porchester Junior students are on the lookout for a good Highwayman. Their standards are high, but I feel that it would be a welcoming community for all qualified applicants. Here is the original content.
The Butterfly Lion
I’m not sure about you, but if I learn something in the context of a story I am much more likely to remember the details. Educators have accessed the incredible story telling power of Comic Life to engage students in…
World Cup 2014: Brazil!
Here at plasq we are all pretty excited about the FIFA World Cup. It’s crazy. The talk about code and user requests and site updates is paralleled with conversations about the games, what happened with that foul in the opening…
The Comic Olympics: Sochi 2014
I’m going to go ahead and admit that this post is a little late, but I wanted to make sure that these amazing students get their time in the spotlight. Fourth Year students create comics featuring their favorite Canadian Olympic…
Athletics Resources
I am always surprised with how many Physical Education comics we see week in and week out. Though I guess I shouldn’t be because those are they are the most active teachers… get it? Most active. Heh. Aaaaanyway… Take a…
Scripting Comics in the Classroom
We’ve been having deep thoughts about script writing and education in our offices lately, and I wanted to reach out to our community with them. Comic Life 3 received a major overhaul on several fronts, including the work flow process,…
New York Times Comic Life Review!
I’m not sure if you’ve heard of this little publication that’s been around a while, The New York Times. They just put out an article about making your own comics, and guess who is at the top of the heap?…
Jigsaw Learning Resources: Cricket
Michaela Wilkinson – a PE Teacher, Netballer and Skier – recently posted a tweet that caught our eye! Tried @comiclife with the Jigsaw Learning concept for a Cricket lesson focussing on Fielding! #peerteaching by @MWilkinsonPE We had to reach out to Michaela to find out…
Flipped Learning Mats
I’ll admit it… This is pilfered from someone else’s blog. Fortunately they don’t seem to mind the idea of shared learning. Thank you to the fantastic folks over at Fulston Manor School! Enjoy! Flipped Learning Mats using Comic Life Ok,…
May Day Comics!
It’s May Day! And in the Northern Hemisphere we’re gearing up for what we hope will be an amazing spring and summer. If you have Comic Life 2 or Comic Life 3 you have some pretty cool built in template…
Harlem Renaissance and Reluctant Writers
Comic Life is a great tool for helping students who struggle with writing. Comics help to break down the paragraph in to shorter, more approachable, sentences. And having visuals to prompt the writing helps students fill out a full story rather than…
Introducing Andrez Bergen
More and more we are seeing professionals use Comic Life to layout and letter their comics. It’s incredible to see our app in the hands of skilled storytellers, and it’s always a pleasure to get to know the writers and…