Comic Strip

I created my comic strip using Comic Life. I chose that option because I am not creative at all and I wanted to use my own images in the comic strip. I thought the most difficult part of the assignment was coming up with the topic to base the comic strip on. I finally decided to use several photos from my recent experience on a high ropes course. It proved to be a useful medium to express my emotion on this particular topic. I found the program very easy to use and fun!

I think that the use of comic strips gives students a fun way to practice their summarizing skills. I think I would use this to have students retell a story by summarizing the key points of the story. It could be part of a lesson on the parts of the plot and their comic could follow that plotline. I am starting a mythology unit soon and I am thinking of having each student create a comic strip to tell the story of the Greek god that they choose to study. The concern I have is that the programs didn’t seem to have a lot to choose from as far as images, and I don’t know how difficult it would be to create images of Greek gods.