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Agenda• Outcomes ~ 3 min.

• See the Possibilities ~ 10 min.

• Extensions ~5 min.

• Hands-on exploration of ComicLife ~ 25 min.

• Share ~ 10 min.

• Review outcomes ~ 3 min.

Outcomes• NETs #1 Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate

creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.– b. create original works as a means of personal or group

expression.f personal or group expression.

• NETs #4 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making– b. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a

project solution or complete a project

• MLR- Writing– Students write to express their ideas and emotions, to describe

their experiences, to communicate information, and to present or analyze an argument.

Today’s Outcomes1. Investigate ways to integrate the

application into curriculum

2. Learn the basics of Comic Life

3. Understand how technology addresses writing instruction in the digital age

“Literacy has always meant being able to consume and produce the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries this has meant writing essays and reports filled with words and paragraphs.

Now it means blending words with images, sounds, music, video, and other media to create the new communication default: the multimedia collage, in the form of web pages, digital stories, YouTube creations and much more.

It is up to us to help digital kids migrate from text centrism to media collage literacy in creative, thoughtful, ways. We need to help them cultivate their new media talents, adopt art as the 4th R and use storytelling to convey their ideas in rich, compelling ways. We need to help them create media, stories and projects that are articulate and transformative. And we need to help them collaborate and share their work and talents within the collaborative community of the social web.”

Dr. Jason Ohler, Professor of Educational Technology, University of Alaska

WebQuest with Comics

http://www.grammarmancomic.com/wquestmenu.html

Enhance a Word Wall

Language Arts

• Grammar• Dialogue• Literary devices• Vocabulary use• Spelling• Riddles,

puns,idioms• Poetry

interpretation• Spanish/French

Art• Analysis• Comparisons• Historical context• Periods• An artist’s growth &

change• Procedures to follow• Studio rules

Literature & Historical Setting• Integrated units of

study • Period newspaper• Shakespearean

scenes• Create a visitor’s

guide to your class, public library, fire station, etc.

• Use another language

What are the delegates thinking?

• http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html

Social Studies Comics• Biographical• Debate between two

_______• A timeline• Explanation of a law• Explanation of

specialized words• http://www.mainememory.net

Science

• Print the comic.• Leave the

speech bubbles empty.

Math Comics

Whole Class Collaboration

Formats & Photo Sources• Before…After• Yesterday…Today…Tomorrow• Cause…Effect• Interview• Procedure• How-to Instructions• Modify KWL and 3-column

journal• Use as a choice in RAFT•Photos you take

•Photos the kids take•Legos•Clay figures•Paper dioramas•Free clip art on the Internet•Scanned drawings

“We forget lectures.We remember stories.”

~ Dr. Jason Ohler

• Use digital stories to instruct.•Create a story about a concept, unit or idea.•Handout with instructions•Photo resources

Today’s Outcomes1. Investigate ways to integrate the

application into curriculum

2. Learn the basics of Comic Life

3. Understand how technology addresses writing instruction in the digital age

Workshop Resources• http://www.digmo.co.uk• http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Marc_Chagall/Biography/• https://smeech-presos.wikispaces.com/Comic+Life?f=print• http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/pribadeneira/generation_ye

s_class.cfm• http://staff.4j.lane.edu/~haugen/