On-line comic book creators

Want to encourage your students to write more creatively (or even at all)?  Get them to create a comic strip!

1.  http://marvel.com/games/play/34/create_your_own_comic

Choose your favourite Marvel super-heroes and villains to narrate about your topic, choose your layout, background, speech and thought bubbles, and those infamous sound effects – “kappow”

Why not get Captain America to describe the mysteries of gravity and download your comic strip as a pdf.

2. http://comicmaster.org.uk/

Similar level of complexity to Marvel, but only 4 characters to choose from.  Choose your page layout, background, move the background, add speech/thought bubbles and finally save and print – and if you choose CutePDF as your printer, you can save it as a PDF rather than actually printing!

So get the weird man with blue spiky hair and black eyes to argue with the man in the purple suit about the differences between aerobic and anaerobic exercises.

3. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/

More limited than marvel, with much simpler more basic graphics and far fewer choices.  No option to save, but again, if you print to CutePDF you can save the finished comic strip as a pdf.

why not describe the story you’ve just read as a class.