Comic+Life

=50 Classroom Uses and Tips for Comic Life=

1. Use Comic Life to create evidence of understanding like these examples at [|The Periodic Table of Comic Books.] 2. (All) If you are looking to keep your comic life short, then it is helpful to have the pictures prepicked for the students. They can retrieve them from your handout file or you can share a particular album right from your iPhoto by going to the iPhoto preferences. One other option, put your photos in one file, archive/zip the file (control-click on folder, select archive). This will put all the photos into one file, which you can put on your document manager. 3. (All) Storyboard ahead of time before the students even TOUCH a computer. 4. (All) Have students create a comic strip as a review of vocabulary terms. 5. (All) Select a photograph, create the call outs/bubbles, and have the students write what they think a character might be thinking/saying. This can be done with primary source photos, along with an explanation or description, which is done after research. [|Example.] This activity can also be done in MS Word. 6.(All) Use Comic Life to sequence - timeline, largest to smallest, first to last, etc.