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,…
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, which is what I want to discuss today. Here at plasq we do not pretend to be educators, but we have spent years listening and adapting our apps based on the suggestions and needs of the educators with which we have spoken. 
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,…
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…
Comic Life in Education: Storytelling Video
Thanks to Brent at EdTech.tv for creating this great video about using Comic Life as a storytelling tool in the classroom. Here at plasq we are not educators, so we always appreciate when people who are in the field provide…
Interactive Story Telling
The craftiness of educators blows my mind sometimes. I mean, really, y’all are amazing. In this post I’d like to highlight some of the super crafty action from the folks over at Davyhulme Primary School who have been creating some…
Anatomy of the Human Body
Comic Life can be used to create things that look as comic like as this… …. But that’s not always the look people are going for. Some people want to do serious things, make images that are useful to surgeons…
Telling The Story of the Titanic
We all know that the story of the Titanic, and its ill fated journey lends itself to epic retellings from musicals to films to novels. Anyone with a radio in 1997 remembers Celine Dion singing about her heart going on and…
Multi Media Digital Stories Created on the iPad
Students build amazing stories that really come alive. View the original post to see more amazing storytelling projects. A recent class project – Multimedia Digital Stories using the iPad Over the past half term I have been working with a…
Book Report Project In Comic Life
I’ll admit that the post below is almost entirely lifted from an educational blog dedicated to ICT-ELT, which is geared toward incorporating visual and technological support into teaching. They’re all about adopting and adapting tools to use in the classroom,…