Comic+Life

The goal is to add 50 teaching suggestions, tips or resources. Please note if your resources is department specific (ex. math) or for everyone (all).

**Relevant Research and Links**

 * 1) (All) This links to a great article about using Comics in the Classroom as well as a brief overview of the software. A great starting point: ([|How to use Comic Life in the Classroom])
 * 2) (LA) An article from the National Council of Teacher of English supporting the use of Comics and Graphic Novels to teach Punctuation, Paragraphing and Outlining. ([|Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom])
 * 3) A blog on Learning from the Art of Comics ([|Presentation Zen])

****Examples, Tips, Suggestions or Resources****

 * 1) (All) Use Comic Life to create a story board.
 * 2) (All) Create presentation showing evidence of understanding. Look at [|The Periodic Table of Comic Books.]as an example.
 * 3) (All) To speed up the process, have pictures in a file that students must use to tell their story.
 * 4) (All) Have them create a storyboard on PAPER before they even TOUCH the computer.
 * 5) (All) Create a comic strip of vocabulary words
 * 6) (All) Select a photograph, create the call outs/bubbles, and have the students write what they think a character might be thinking/saying. This can be done with primary source photos, along with an explanation or description, which is done after research. This can be done with Comic Life or even Microsoft Word (This  [|example.] uses the call-out Tool in Word)
 * 7) (All) Students demonstrate knowledge of leadership by taking photos of themselves (with appropriate facial expressions) and adding dialog to each picture. The original project required research, forced kids to form opinions and think.
 * 8) (LA) Create scenes from a book students are reading. Forcing them to understand the core plot and characters as well as the essential characters and dialog.
 * 9) (LA) Change dialog of a novel for another setting to contrast culture and mastery of plot or dialog. (i.e. Shakespeare in Lancaster county)