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"Comic Life expands what can be done with digital photos. With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life provides numerous ways to liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, and create how-to guides." Easily drag-and-drop images from your user space. Library of premade templates, styles and fonts available. Artistic Image Filtering options for your photos.
Numerous K-12 classroom applications: • Make Comics • Annotate family and school photos • Holiday or field trip photo albums • Children’s story books • ‘How-to'Guides • Basic desktop publishing • Greeting cards • Gifts • Scrap booking
Use Comic Life 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."
Comic Life Teacher Resources (from OSAPAC)
K-8 Comic Life Samples from Comic Life Schools Wiki
Interactive Comic Vocabulary Application (from ReadWriteThink)
Sample Grade 8 Authentic Task Read the assigned passage from the New Testament. With your group, determine the main events of the story. Use SMART Ideas to record the events. Determine how you will use the digital camera to recreate these events, where the photos will be taken, who needs to be involved and the camera angles you will use to create the desired effects. Record on your SMART Ideas web. Use Comic Life to recount the Bible story remembering to include why the story was told (what does it mean to us today?) |
