Storyboards are a great planning tool for writing and a great way to retell the plot or important events in a story you've read. There are many different online comic strip makers that can be used to storyboard. Today you will have a chance to explore a few different comic strip making programs. Play around with them, see what you like in each. Be prepared to choose one to share interesting or cool feature that you discover today with the class. (Information below is taken from Free Technology for Teachers)
Pixton and Storyboard That are both good platforms for creating comic
strips.
Make Beliefs Comix
offers comic strip templates and writing prompts in up to seven
languages. The templates and prompts can be completed online or you can
print them out. Make Beliefs Comix iPad app supports the creation of
comics in seven languages; English, Spanish, French, German, Italian,
Portuguese, and Latin. To create
comics in the Make Beliefs Comix you simply select the number
of frames you want to use then choose the characters that you want to
feature in your story. After choosing your frames and characters you can
type text into speech bubbles to tell your story.
Comic Master is a free tool
designed for students to use to create comics in the "graphic novel
style" that is popular with a lot of kids in the ten to fourteen years
old age range. Comic Master provides a drag and drop interface for
students to build their comics on. Students using Comic Master can
select from a variety of layouts, backgrounds, characters, effects, and
fonts.
Witty Comics provides a simple
platform to create two character dialogues. To
use Witty Comics students just need to select the pre-drawn background
scenes and the pre-drawn characters they want to feature in their
comics. Writing the dialogues is the creative element that is left to
the students.
Write Comics is a free, simple
tool for creating comic strips. Write Comics doesn't require any
registration to use. In fact, registration is not even an option. To
create a comic on Write Comics just select a background from the menu,
choose some characters, and add some speech bubbles. You can continue
adding frames until you've completed your story.
