Online tools to create comics!

Hello everyone!

In this post I will talk about the tools to create comics that we can find online. Comics are a very good resource to use in our classroom. There are several ways of using comics in the classroom: the teacher can create a comic for the students in order to present something, the students can create it to express themselves or to work on a content previously explained....

In this case, I've created a comic in which we can see a problem that a lot of  students face in every subject, such as the fear of public speaking. In this comic we can also find some advices to overcome this fear. This comic could be print and placed in the classroom so that the students could see it and it could help them.

Before starting to work with this topic in class I did not know anything about the tools that we can find online to create a comic such as  Creaza or StoryboardThat

I've decided to use Pixton to create my comic. Pixton is a  tool is easy to use because is very intuitive. You have icons that indicate you what to do in a really simple way, like for adding a new character you  have the icon of a face, or for adding a new background you have the icon of a landscape. In Pixton you can create your own comic from a scratch but you can also
use their templates. They have a lot of templates and, if you are using Pixton as a teacher, is really useful because you can find this templates well organised in lesson plans like English, Computer, History.... You can also decide to use a pre set background which you can modify by  adding or deleting item, making the item bigger or smaller.... It lets you give text and speech bubbles to characters which you can also modify according to you preferences changing the font, the size the color... It also has the option of adding images, audios or links if you want, which I think is really useful.
But, the two things that really caught my eye is that you have a lot of pre set expressions, poses and characters and that you can add your students to the comic.

So as I said is really easy to use Pixton and you can make a lot of different stories.
There's something although I didn't like and is that you have a trial period to use it and, after that, I think you have to pay for some of the features but since I have used it with my trial period  I don't know how much and for which ones.

I would definitely use this tool with my students because as I just said is really easy to use so I think they will be able to create really good stories expressing their feelings.

So, here you have my comic and I hope this entry will help you.

See you in my next post!