Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Blog Post #9- Reflections on Comic Life

I did my comic life on an episode of the office which made it quite fun. I really enjoyed it because I got to create a comic based on one of my favourite shows.  I enjoyed creating the story but using the program was kind of irritating.  The program works but it is not without flaw, there aren’t many options and it can be difficult to maneuver. It isn’t very user friendly, I think it could be much easier if they changed or updated it. It was difficult to insert pictures, sometimes it wouldn’t be saved correctly for the program so it wouldn’t insert or wouldn’t paste. As well you couldn’t add boxes (comic boxes) on top of your picture, only before. Overall it is a good program, there is just a few kinks to be worked out.

If a teacher were to use this for a humanities 8 assignment, it could work for both English and socials subjects. An example of a project they could do is the following; create a comic for a chapter of a novel study they are working on.  They would have to have images and descriptions. The plot would have to be clear and background information would have to be given. The students should introduce the characters and the setting clearly. The comics would be marked on a quality, length, amount of images, quality of image, clear writing, and clear plot. I think doing this project for a portion or chapter of their novel study would give them a deep understanding of the story, since they would spend time turning it into a comic. This could work for a common grade eight novel study like the outsiders. 

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