Purpose Driven Life

Purpose Driven Life

This time I will speak about Comics as Educational Resources in the classrooms.  I´d like to 
share with you a great tool to create comics for our students, the Pixton. 

First thing you need to create your own account. The next step is to select the layout you want to use. Here you can choose from different ones, such as: story board, graphic novel, comic strip...etc. In my Pixton, I have used the story board because I wanted to give a brief description about what is happening in the story. 

Pixton is a cartoon creation tool that allows its users to create awesome comics. Pixton has also a growing community that anyone can access to contribute with their own comics. This tool is very easy to use and does not require any artistic skills to work on it. You can introduce it to your students and let them create their own comics and share them with each other. From fully posable characters to dynamic panels, props, and speech bubbles, every aspect of a comic can be controlled in an intuitive click-n-drag motion. 

Besides the free individual accounts, Pixton offers a service designed specifically for schools called Pixton for Schools which is not free. This service enables teachers to create private rooms for their students in which they can collaboratively create and share their comics. 

Some features of Pixton:
Here is a list of the main features that Pixton provides for its users:
It is free for individual accounts
It lets users create their own comics
It lets you give text and speech bubbles to characters
It lets you edit the shape and position of each comic panel
It offers unlimited range of expressions
It lets you upload your own photos and personalize them the way you want
It provides presets, templates, and shapes.

Have fun :)