graphicnovels

=Creating Graphic Novels / Comics.= =media type="custom" key="6016213"=

Creating graphic novels with students is highly motivating!

Publishing a comic to the web! pdf - comicdoc -

The YES project - US - Youth and Educators Succeeding Initiative - []

What is Comic Life?

Comic life is a comic book creator. Its creative format allows students to express themselves in a fun and memorable way. You can drag and drop scanned photos, still pictures and screen and video captures into comic page templates. You then can add dialogue to complete a story line. There are many templates, bendable wordart forms, dialoque bubbles, image filters and styles to choose from when making your projects. The projects can be easily printed, turned into a pdf ebook, published to the web, saved as images, and produced as a movie with voice over!

The Logical Process:
 * Storyboarding - determing the storyline, pictures needed.
 * Image Collection - scan, take digital stills, screen captures
 * Want free use images? http://www.compfight.com ... remember to turn on the CC only option in the search.
 * also google now has a reuse tag on its images that you can search for.
 * Create the Comic - using templates, filters and bubbles create your project.
 * Publish the Comic - pdf (lulu.com), print, web publish, movie etc.
 * Share - share share share ... let the comics be read ... post them to a wiki!


 * Ideas Bank** - Looking for Ideas? Check it out here!

All things comiclife here.


 * Tutorial and lesson accelerators**

[|Atomic Learning] provides tutorials online through "Lesson Accelerator" project launchers on topics such as:


 * Character Comics
 * Fat? Or Fit?
 * Internet Safety - Be Aware
 * Picture Perfect Alphabet
 * Who Am I?
 * Color Web Book

Here's a link to the "Fat or Fit?" Project Launcher from AtomicLearning: []

A great comic life wiki - http://comic-life.wikispaces.com/ - really like the samples and the guides here!


 * Writing Ideas for comic life**

read write think - [] cross grade/subject- [] comics in the classroom - []

Comic Examples

Comic Life Gallery - [] simple k-5 Writing Examples - [] Lifeskills - How to get welfare, SIN# etc. []

Add ons ... Comic Life Charaters Pack - [] (windows) [] (mac)

Flipping comic book - use wix.

Requests?

Still looking for a magazine template and a calendar template - Matt =Sharing the creative works!=

Sharing is critical to students project creation. Here are some ideas how to share! Remember to focus on the students work not the student! Remove identifying information and follow division policy!


 * 1) Print in color from comic life.
 * 2) Print as a pdf and email to friends.
 * 3) Send the pdf to lulu.com and get it bound and printed in color.
 * 4) Publish as html (website) and post to First Class or another website that can use html.
 * 5) Create a self running movie of the comic book!
 * 6) Upload to tikatok.com and publish.
 * 7) VERY cool ... create an ebook at myebook.com. Sample!

[] check out some comics on you own!

Cool comic examples - [], [], [] (scanned images)

Photo collections to spark comic:

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Our schools!

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Take it that next step and post to a wiki along with all your other digital learning goodness!

http://ggecinfusion.wikispaces.com

Comic making / Graphic Novelling are part of the UberAuthor Program