Normally, as the start of school approaches, I include instructions in my summer letter home that asks my incoming students to write at our classroom blog a bit about what they did over the summer. This year, I am going to have us use Bitstrips for Schools webcomics, and so I changes my writing venue from the blog to our classroom webcomic space. It’s been pretty fun to see what they can do, particularly since they are on their own (for the most part — we don’t start school with kids until tomorrow).
Here is a snapshot of our “classroom” page. You can see that many of them are already creating avatars of themselves.
I hope they view the activity as fun and engaging.
Peace (in the comic world),
Kevin