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The Benefits of Comic Life in Education Making comics is fun for everyone, and Comic Life makes it easy. Teachers and students will find Comic Life a very useful software tool, and now it's available for both Mac and Windows platforms. Technology not only changes how we write, but it also changes what writing is. Education will need to re-evaluate which writing skills teachers should pass to their students. Digital graphic writing is one genre students need to be fluent. Comic Life is the "word processor" of digital graphic writing. Easy to Learn Students and teachers need only a short time to learn the basics of Comic Life. It's easy to add images from digital cameras, computer web-cameras, clip art from CD's and the web, stills from QuickTime movies, scanned photos and drawings -- just about any on-screen image can be used in Comic Life. Adding captions and word balloons is as easy as drag and drop.

A recent explosion of academic interest in comic books and graphic novels has stirred the creation of comics curricula nationwide. Several colleges and universities are now offering courses in comics literature, and high school teachers are exploring graphic novels as a new way to stimulate young readers' interest in literature.

Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of literature, and children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other types of books.

A beautifully made comic strip maker which is designed for younger children. Easy to use and a good collection of clip art images. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

template of printable comic style page layouts. Great for content vocabulary activities or essential idea summaries

Create your own comic strip

Great way to add a comic strip to your Glog!

"Comic Tutorials " web 2.0 tutorials in comic strip format

Another online comic creator. Allows easy sharing, viewer tracker, other creations by the artist, etc.

Pixton is a widely used comic strip maker. The personal account is free. So many options and the click and drag editing is really easy to use. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

Make comics and books with or for your classroom!

Make comics and books with or for your classroom!

Understand how comics are beneficial in schools and ways they can be used

The team at Instructify present some ideas regarding the use of web based comic creation tools in teaching and learning.

A lovely, simple comic strip creator. Just click on the character and background to insert into the frame. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

Thanks to tbarrett for this find.

Create your own comic -- no sign up; free

EduComics is an European Union Comenius education project under the Life Long Learning Programme. It will show educators how online comics can be used in the classroom to enhance learning, engage and motivate students, and use technology in a practical and effective way. The project will create training material for teachers and organise seminars for teachers in Greece, Cyprus, UK, Italy and Spain.

European Union Comenius education project showing educators how digital comics can be used in the classroom to enhance learning, engage and motivate students, and use technology in a practical and effective way.

National Writing Project article. PDF download of full text.

Great potential for writing. Wish it was not a licensed character. Students can create custom characters.