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Comic Life
Welcome & IntroductionsSlide2
Comic style text has been used to teach world languages before… Now we can make our own!Has anyone ever used Comic Life?
Where can I download this program?
http://comic-life.en.softonic.com/ or http://plasq.com/downloads/ 30 day free trial/ $24.95 individualSchool wide??
What is Comic Life? Slide3
How can students use Comic Life?
Student created projects can be used for a cumulative assessment
i.e. written dialogue, spontaneous speaking (w/pictures only)Working with partners vs. individualWhat can Comic Life be used for?Slide4
What can Comic Life be used for?
How can teachers use comic life?
Writing assessment
(clear directions and guidelines for writing prior to putting text into comic life)
Quiz
– leaving blanks in the
speech bubble or as a Cloze activity
(TPR-S)
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leave the last speech bubble blank for students to conclude
th
e story or teacher creates the ending and students work backwards to create the middle and beginning of the story
Introducing new
vocabulary or grammar structure
As a model
for students to create a skit
Reading activity –
students can read through the comic followed by reading comprehension questions
Cultural
- a way to incorporate cultural aspects into a
conversation
Teachers can always adjust levels for studentsSlide5
Writing the text ahead of time and with proper guidelines will save time during the Comic Life processSample Guidelines and Rubrics
Samples in French and Spanish Slide6
Sample…Slide7
Getting started… Changing the screen resolutionChoosing landscape vs. portraitUsing the frames and speech bubbles
Finding characters
and inserting (google images, clip art, photos, drawings, cropping in Paint) Flipping imagesCopy and paste (saves time)Title/name box and fontsAccents with Alt+ __ will work!Tour of Comic LifeSlide8
Explore Comic Life on your own for the next 10 minutes or so… Your turn…Slide9
Printing?? Saving?? (Save as a JPEG file)Time?? (student work vs. teacher creation)Setting guidelines and parameters for student instruction
Use your tech. people as resources
Tips Slide10
Group Ideas…Questions?Slide11
Let’s get to work!Slide12
Please fill out the evaluation and be sure to collect your CEU’s
Final comments & questions