Comic+Life



Comic Life is a fantastic, versatile and easy to use software package. You can easily create a range of posters and publications using this software. It is brilliant for digital storytelling. You can add speech bubbles and fun text which can easily be manipulated to change shape, colour and size. Photos drag and drop into the frames. The examples below show what kinds of activities you can create using this software. Click on each of the images to take you to the sites where I sourced the images from.

Examples
 * = Illustrating key competencies ||= Mihi ||= Recounts and historical events ||= Instructions ||
 * [[image:relating_to_others2.jpg width="200" height="258"]] || [[image:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2310/2381801530_8ca67d4dfa.jpg width="200" height="258" link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/extpes/2381801530/"]] || [[image:http://bionicteaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/historysol6cd.jpg width="200" height="258" link="http://bionicteaching.com/?p=285"]] || [[image:http://prodev.wsd.wednet.edu/topics/comiclife/examples/howtowashtablesexample.jpg width="200" height="258" link="http://prodev.wsd.wednet.edu/topics/comiclife/comiclife.html"]] ||
 * = Creating worksheets ||= Science reports ||= Science labeling ||= Learning a language ||
 * = [[image:killerblurbthumb.jpg width="200" height="233"]] ||=  ||= [[image:Plant_cell.jpg width="160" height="224"]] ||= [[image:http://ssclc.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/comic1.jpg?w=187&h=265 link="http://ssclc.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/spanish-summer-school-1/"]] ||
 * = Word Art ||= Letter sound associations ||= Social studies ||= Making support posters for display ||
 * = [[image:cis-mr-betts:angel.jpg width="200" height="258"]] ||= [[image:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2352/2388092185_394211496d.jpg width="200" height="258" link="http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=582215&mode=comment&blogger_id=162000"]] ||= [[image:http://kingsroad.learningspaces.net/userfiles/Page_2(2).jpg width="200" height="258" link="http://kingsroad.learningspaces.net/node/660"]] ||= [[image:http://www.ldcsb.on.ca/schoolservices/programs/content/workshops/fslt_feb_4/answering_questions_vip_comic.jpg width="200" height="258"]] ||
 * = Stating features ||||= Vocabularly work ||
 * = [[image:debsplace:comic_life_positives.png width="374" height="206" link="debsplace:Comic Life"]] ||||= [[image:Vocabulary2.jpg width="350" height="236"]] ||
 * = Instructions (number 2) ||||= Digital storytelling ||
 * = [[image:http://ltc.smm.org/makeit/files/images/Page_1_18.preview.jpg width="302" height="270" link="http://ltc.smm.org/makeit/node/1263"]] ||||= [[image:http://comiclife.com/data/images/comiclife/education/catsgrace/grace010.jpg width="302" height="270" link="http://comiclife.com/data/images/comiclife/education/catsgrace/grace010.jpg"]] ||

[|See more examples at the Plasq gallery]

media type="custom" key="6574097" =Purchasing school licenses= Information on a New Zealand School Initiative for the purchase of Comic Life is available from innesk@werc.ac.nz.

=**Tutorials**= [|ScreenCasts Online Tutorial] - A great video tutorial on Comic Life [|Teacher Tech - Comic Life in the Classroom] - A lot of useful information about Comic Life as well as good ideas on how you might use it. [|How to use Comic Life in the Classroom] - an excellent site with advice and instructions on how to use it.