about 1 year ago - No comments
Although the National Day on Writing was Wednesday, my students were still working on their webcomics at home, on their own time, in order to finish an assignment that we had to create a celebration of writing. I really loved what they were doing, so I decided to grab some of the comics and put More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
And so, the final frame has been inked. Yesterday, our four-day Webcomic Camp for middle school students came to an end and even though it is a lot of work to plan for the camp and sucks up half of a summer day, I was pretty sad to see our artists/writers walk out the door More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
I recently picked up Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel, mostly because it is edited by James Bucky Carter, whose writing and links and insights around comics and graphic novels I enjoy reading about. (Check out his blog: EN/SANE World). In this collection of essays from various educators, Carter More >
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Since the spring, I’ve been beta-testing a new site with my students called ToonDoo Spaces for the ToonDoo organization. The open/public ToonDoo site is a social networking site for comic creators of all ages with easy-to-use tools and loads of clip art, backgrounds, options for creating your own characters, tools for compiling comics into an More >
about 2 years ago - No comments
I decided to do a reflection on running a Comic Camp for middle school students over at The Graphic Classroom, where I am a staff reviewer and contributor. I hope my reflections are useful to anyone else considering this kind of camp, which really engaged young writers in meaningful ways. Peace (within the drawings), Kevin
about 2 years ago - No comments
We’re about half-way through with the four-day summer camps — one that focuses in claymation/stopmotion movies and the other that centers on comics and graphic novels. Both have been incredibly interesting and the middle school students (mostly boys) are very engaged in the work they are doing. In the movie camp, they have been working More >
about 2 years ago - No comments
I have a few posts here and there that I never got around to publishing before the school year ends and this is one of them. While we were using our closed ToonDoo comic space for Comic Strip Poetry, I asked my students in a survey for some suggestions on how I could integrate the More >
about 2 years ago - No comments
Today, I offer up my second installment of my new Webcomic series about my life in music called Making Music, using ToonDoo as my composition site. I made some changes this week, as I started to use ToonDoo’s Traitr program to create my own comic version of myself, instead of using one of the prefab More >
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
This is an incredible chart. I hung it up in my room and all the kids are crowding around it, checking it out. I think they are both drawn to the comic element, but also to the way that this artist has cross-pollinated our expectations of characters. (PS — If you go the comic on More >
about 3 years ago - No comments
Scott McCloud has put out a series of books (Undertstanding Comics, etc.) that have really brought a focus to the conceptual design and creation of comics and graphic novels to a new level. He fearlessly explores the literary aspects of comics and about how the combination of the visual and the word — and the More >
about 3 years ago
Hi, I am a teacher in Rochdale England I enjoyed your post very much. Your comic strip is interesting…..I like to use comic strips with my class when I am teaching direct speach…at the moment I am using comix but I hope you might suggest a better free program I could use
thanks and cheerio
Silvana
about 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing the comic strip and the article. Great work.
Bill
about 3 years ago
Thanks Bill.
MrsC — I often use ToonDoo (http://www.toondoo.com/Home.do) but for kids, a great and easy site is called MakeBeliefs Comics (http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/).
Kevin