Cartoons and Comics in the Classroom
Image created from https://www.cartoonize.net/ Graphic Novels and Comics are making a comeback, and having students create them can offer engaging ways to check for understanding. Students can use comics to write their own ending to a whole class novel, narrate their favorite part of a novel, or even "break the ice" by making a mini-comic book to talk about their likes and dislikes. There are so many ways Comics and Graphic Novels can be beneficial to students and their learning. For this post, I played around with a few different web apps that allowed for comics creation. Just for fun, I used www.cartoonize.net to cartoonize a photo of my family! It was free and didn't require a login so it would be a fun warm-up in the classroom! I also played around with Fotojet, Pixton, and MakeBeliefsComix and made an example comic from each application! Fotojet was fun to play around with! Like other web-based apps that I have discovered, you signup, select a te...