Bitstrips for Schools - Comics in the Classroom (Web app new for 09-10)

The Website: http://bitstripsforschools.com/ - teachers and students may log on from home or school

Newsletters (samples, tips, tricks): May 2010, June 2010

An awesome handout to help you activate your account and outlines the main features of the application.

Use Bitstrips to support the Media Literacy strand. Media Literacy - the perfect curriculum

Links to English Curriculum

“Media literacy” is the result of study of the art and messaging of various forms of media
texts. Media texts can be understood to include any work, object, or event that communicates
meaning to an audience. Most media texts use words, graphics, sounds, and/or
images, in print, oral, visual, or electronic form, to communicate information and ideas to
their audience. Whereas traditional literacy may be seen to focus primarily on the understanding
of the word, media literacy focuses on the construction of meaning through the
combination of several media “languages” – images, sounds, graphics, and words."

Bitstrips Teacher Resources (from OSAPAC)

Interactive Comic Vocabulary Application (from ReadWriteThink)