Tech Integration Class: Comic Life
Tech Integration Class: Comic Life

Plasq.com's Comic Life Gallery

Comics in the Classroom

1.   Background info

Using Comic Life

1.   Making comics
2.   Making presentations
3.   How-to's
   
4.   Posters, yearbook, newsletters...
5.   Political cartoons
   

Integrated Applications

1.   Safari (ctrl-click to save to iPhoto)
   1.   Image sources (No Google images!)
      1.   SIRS (http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/pictureSearch?showform=true)
      2.   Groliers (http://go-passport.grolier.com/)
      3.   United Streaming (http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm)
      4.   Pics 4 Learning (http://www.pics4learning.com/)
2.   iPhoto (create albums to help organize your Comic Life pictures)
3.   iSight camera
4.   Photo Booth

Comic Life Tutorial

1.   Looking at the interface
   1.   Toolbar, captioning (adding text), pages, templates
2.   Start your Comic
   1.   Orient page, choose Template
   2.   Add photos
   3.   Add balloons and captions
   4.   Apply filters, adjust styles
   5.   Print or save
3.   AtomicLearning

Saving, printing, etc...

1.   Save as... options

Process for Student Projects

1.   Plan
   1.   print out blank templates
2.   Gather resources
3.   Work on same computer
4.   No server
5.   Presenting Ms. Klepp's "How to's"
   

Installing, etc...

1.   Plasq.com
2.   Authorization code
3.   Limits of license - only SPPS computers!
4.   Updating

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 Madame Simms Comic Life Post Cards  
 Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom  
 Education World: Comics in the Classroom  
 Graphic Novels for Multiple Literacies  
 Comics in the Classroom  
 Comic Life How-To on YouTube.  
 Comiqs.com   An online Comic creator tool.
 comic_life_handout.pdf   2 page Quick Start handout