This link provides a lesson plan as well as some assessment options that can be used.
Comic Life is such an amazing tool for students to use to show what they have learned about a certain topic. Unfortunately, Comic Life is not available at my school and it is something that we do not have permission to download the trial version onto our computers either. I was able to create a Comic Life Project from my home computer using Social Studies and Language Arts standards. I created my project on the six different Native American tribes we study in 4th grade. The following is what I included in my description write up for my Comic Life project on the lessons learned while creating the project.
Because of limitations and restrictions on our school computers, I was unable to use my students in this project. I wanted to use them and have them help me write the comic, but those limitations kept me from doing so. I decided to create the comic for an upcoming unit we will be studying in Social Studies. I learned many lessons about myself and learning online throughout this project.
I will honestly say I waited until the last minute to create this project. I usually do not wait until the last minute to do my work, but my teaching job has been very stressful this year and caused me to put less focus on my graduate school work. I began working on this on Saturday. I was quite surprised when I finished all the comics on Saturday and just had the write up to finish on Sunday. I worked all day Saturday and drew all of my pictures to use in the comics. I think I took the hard way out as far as drawing all of my pictures, but I wasn’t sure how to add my students’ faces into a picture with the background I needed for the Native American tribes. I learned that if I work hard, I can get my work done fairly quickly. I also learned, that I get very stressed out when I do wait until the last minute because I am so pressed for time. This is not good if something does not go right because it can cause me to turn the project in late.
I enjoy learning online. I thought the comic life project was fairly easy, which is great because I know that if we are ever able to get the program at our school, I will be able to use it with my students. The only problem I have with learning online is that I am not sure how to set up the wiki to post my project. I am hoping I will be able to do this successfully, so that my classmates can view my Comic Life project.
Hey Niki! Comic Life isn't something I would be able to use WITH my students either. But I do think that it could be a useful tool in creating something FOR your students. I have found in my music room that the more ways I can give information out, the better! I am seriously considering purchacing this program to create fun comic strips that also teach the kids.
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