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"Session Description: Creating comic strips can be a great way for students to tell stories, express understanding of content, give reports, and be creative. There are many tools available for making comics, but a great one is Google Slides. Learn how to use Google Slides, including many of the newest features, for your students (and you) to create online comic strips. Presenter: Eric Curts Date: December 15, 2015 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm EST" This is a talk given not too long ago. All resources and the talk itself are linked from this page.

"HOW TO USE MAKEBELIEFSCOMIX.COM TO TEACH ESOL "Comic strips provide a perfect vehicle for learning and practicing the English language. Each strip's three or four panels provides a finite, accessible world in which funny, interesting looking characters go about their lives. And students with limited reading or speaking skills are not as overwhelmed in dealing with the size of a comic strip as they may be with a book of many pages." A good addition to a nice comic strip starter/creator.

"Each day author/teacher Bill Zimmerman is offering excerpts from a new ‘’Make Beliefs’’ book aimed at encouraging students to express their thoughts through writing and drawing, as well as to spur their creative imaginations. They are in the form of comic strip panels in which comic characters raise a provocative question and students can write their responses by creating comic strips at MakeBeliefsComix. com, a free educational resource. " These are imaginative prompts and many could also be used for writing activities.

Some nice ideas from R. Byrne on how to use comics for courses and activities -- literature, social studies, book reports, expressing feelings (and ideas). He includes 5 free comic-book makers. Some good examples of PBL.

Offers educators a number of creative ways to use comics in the classroom. For example: At the beginning of each new school year have students create a comic strip talking about themselves and their families or summarizing the most important things about their lives. Let each student select a cartoon character as a surrogate to represent her or him. After students complete their strips, encourage them to exchange their comics with classmates to learn more about each other. Students can also create strips that summarize what their individual interests to help a teacher to learn more about them.

Wow! This has articles on how to use comics, lesson plans, and links to places on the Web where you can create comics. Excellent blog feature.

Nice intro video helps you see how interesting making comics is for children (of all ages). There are school plans and free 14-day trial. Also an individual Bitstrip site where you can be the star of your own comic.

A nice grouping from the EmerginingEdTech blogers. This might be a good blog to sign up for to receive email alerts. Comics are great for practicing reading, critical thinking, and writing. They can get the most jaded class rebooted.

"Teaching with comics facilitates improved comprehension and social-emotional competencies."

Imagine the non-fiction you are reading is a movie playing in your mind - an animé. Each cell in a comic strip translates into a different action or idea in the text. Teacher demonstrates how this technique works in pods of 3 young adult students.

"Have students create a Pinterest board with 10 pins that summarizes them. Ask students to create a 30 second podcast that introduces themselves. Then allow students to present them or play them on separate devices as an audio gallery. Create a classroom blog and ask each student to write a blog post introducing themselves to the rest of the classroom. Have students create a quick comic strip to describe themselves or to recreate a recent funny moment in their lives. Use PollEverywhere to ask students interesting questions and get to know them as a class, like their favorite subjects, bands or TV shows. Use GoogleForms or SurveyMonkey to survey students about their interests, academic inclinations, and background info - a 21st century alternative to the "Getting to Know You" info sheet! Have students create word clouds to describe themselves and share with the rest of the class. Have students go on a QR code scavenger hunt in teams to get to know each other and learn about your classroom rules in a fun, engaging way. Ask students to create their own Voki avatars that introduce themselves to the class. Encourage them to be creative with the backgrounds, characters and details of the avatar to reflect their own personalities and preferences. Have students create graffiti online that speaks to their interests and personalities and share with the class." A nice set of ready-made lessons using readily available apps on the computer.

A certificate, whether for fun or to reward for good participation might be welcome. Treat your students with these comic templates.

" Finally, a presentation tool that incorporates an intuitive user interface, super cool comic graphics, is 200% less frustrating than Prezi, and offers a zillion more options than the free version of GoAnimate. I know we just met, PowToon, but I think I am in love." This from a teacher, A. Gibson, who has used the tool. I hesitate to recommend one more presentation tool, but this looks interesting. "

Royalty-free audio, categorized by types, e.g., animals, people, music loops, office setting, comics, etc. (Requires userregistration and login.) Good place to look for sound fx for projects.

A series of three YouTube videos for teens and tweens. Uses the Little Red Riding Hood motif to comic effect. All about cyber bullying, identity safety, and safe Facebooking.

"This wiki is a collaborative learning space. If you want to contribute to this e-portfolio or digital portfolio page, please join the wiki and then add your thoughts, your notes or describe how you created digital portfolios for your students." This wiki has everything about wikis and much more: using blogs, words clouds, comics, Vacebook HTML, online collaboration, etc., etc. Join and contribute

This site for creating your own comics now has a disabled students section.

Arcade and word games, Web books to read, Comics, etc. Number and word games though not specifically for ESL/EFL look to be useful for young learners.\n--Elizabeth Hanson-Smith

Similar to Bubblr, but this app produces a book-lik presentation, rather than a comic strip format. You add two pictures per open book page, and add text as a subtitle. Good for projects with students' own photos uploaded to Flickr, or pictures found in a search. (See Russell Stannard's description and tutorial at http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/newBubblr/index.html.)

A very extensive wiki with links to a huge number of Web2.0 tools, such as presentation programs, mindmapping, comics, image sharing and editing, search, etc.