What is Comic Creator?
"Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (pre-writing, pre- and post-reading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet, a printable PDF that comic creators can use to draft and revise their work before creating and printing their final comics. After completing their comic, students have the ability to print out and illustrate their final versions for feedback and assessment." You will find lessons that use this interactive for K-12 in all content areas.
Comic Creator is just one of 57 student interactive tools you will find at ReadWriteThink, which is one of the Thinkfinity partners. Thinkfinity boasts hundreds of K-12 student interactives in all content areas.
Make Believe Comix is a place for you to come to and have fun by creating your own world of comic strips. You have a choice of characters with different moods and the chance to write words and thoughts for them. You will tap into your creativity and explore new possibilities. There is also a new Special Needs section which features ideas and tips sent in by those who use the site with students who have varying disabilities.
Also visit Bill Zimmerman's blog where he shares thousands of writing prompts.
Pixton is the comic website for anyone who enjoys storytelling and comics. Pixton is very user-friendly. It's a good, easy, fun way to reinforce language arts skills, in that a comic strip contains a setting, characters, a plot, and it has all of the grammar and spelling elements of a writing assignment. Pixton.com is a social community where you can easily create, share, remix and publish your comic strip stories with people around the world. If you find a great comic in French, German, or another language, you can instantly translate it into English.
ToonDoo allows users to utilize an extensive library of characters and objects the comic strip, and there are also tools to create personal touches. The TraitR tool allows you to create custom characters. DoodlR lets you paint freely. You want to use your own photos or another image in your comic strip, and you can manipulate it through the ImagineR photo tool.
There’s an option to save your project so that you can come back to it later. When you finish several ToonDoos, you can compile a book. It’s easy to embed individual cartoons in a website or share them over networks.Strip Creator hosts a variety of layouts, a library of characters and items, text balloons, object-editing tools, and adjustable frames. If you need a specific cell to be wider or longer, just drag the wall. Another great feature is the personal library. When you edit an image to get it just right, you can save it to use again later.
