There are so many layers of creativity going on in this project that I can hardly stand it! There’s creative writing, painting, mystery and intrigue, problem solving, and storytelling with comics. It’s just so good! Students at Whitefield Primary School…
BETT 2014 Next Week!
You guys, I’m super excited about heading back to BETT! Last year was our first year, and it was amazing! I mean… I had a learning curve with blowing out our booth lights and having to buy a power strip…
10 Legends of Learning
Not going to lie… it’s Sunday and I was pulled into into manual labor for the family, so this post is going to be shorter than normal. But… here is day ten of the Twelve Days of Festivus Countdown! Woo…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.…