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🤔 What is cartooning? How can it support what we are learning?
Whether through doodles, collages, or digital composition, creating comics gives learners the opportunity to be active agents in their understanding.
~ Dan Ryder, author of Edutopia blog "Creating Comics in the Classroom"
🧐 Let's see cartooning and comics in action and get some ideas!
Possible Levels of SAMR with Comic/Cartoon Creation:
Possible Levels of SAMR with Comic/Cartoon Creation:
Substitution: Students utilize a word processor to type the text for a comic strip they are creating. This is then printed out and students draw pictures to accompany their text.
Augmentation: Students utilize a comic creation software to create a comic showing problem and solution. They add speech bubbles and get images from the internet and stock photos to add to their comic. Student comics are then printed then they are finished.
Modification: Students utilize a comic creation software. They utilize text and various graphics and layouts within their design. Students then add audio to their comics for viewers to be able to listen.
Redefinition: Students create digital comics with a variety of media elements. Creations are then added to a digital newspaper. This digital newspaper is published and shared with the community.
🤓 Let's Give it a Try!
Now it's your turn to create. Choose 1 of the tools below and learn how to use it. Create your own artifact with this tool. It should be something you would use with students or with coworkers. You'll add either your completed artifact or a link to this artifact to the Google Classroom Assignment below.
Tool 1: Google Slides (or Drawings)
Tool 1: Google Slides (or Drawings)
Use Slides if you want more than 1 page, forced background templates, or custom printing options. Use Drawings if you want 1 page or more options with background transparency.
Tool 2: Storyboard That (Free Version)
Tool 2: Storyboard That (Free Version)
While it can be used K-12, the few extra steps required to share work from the free account may be most appropriate for grades 2 and up.
🤩 Let's Design for Students
Lesson/Activity Design Info
Lesson/Activity Design Info
If you choose to write a lesson plan, be sure to include:
Standards: What standards are you addressing?
Introduction: How will you hook students in?
Instruction: What are you teaching?
Activity: What will students be doing or creating?
Conclusion: How will you wrap things up?
If you choose to build the lesson materials, be sure to include:
Standards: What standards are you addressing?
Teacher Materials: What will you be showing/teaching the students?
Student Materials: What directions, models, rubrics will students need?
Tips for Littles or Learners Who Need Some Gentle Encouragement
Tips for Littles or Learners Who Need Some Gentle Encouragement
Draw, draw, draw first. Enlist the support of your art teacher!
Read and discuss graphic novels and comics in class.
Write comics and cartoons together.
Introduce comics, cartoons, and graphic novels as a genre. Talk about what makes them unique and their different parts.
Provide students with a digital template and/or a limited and preloaded set of characters, scenes, and speech bubbles.
Begin with comics using a single character. Focus on what this character says OR on the descriptions underneath.
Provide video or visual lesson on how to use the basic tools in the program you are using.
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