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ComicLife 1.3.3 Deluxe |
2007-08 Classes: 3:30-5:30, Carilyn Gilbert Computer Lab
Dec 5, March 12
ComicLife requires OS 10.3 or newer. The district has a district license for OS 10.3. or 10.4 or 10.5
Comic Life allows you to easily create comic books (or documents that look like comic books). Upon opening, Comic Life immediately finds and opens your iPhoto library, giving you a collection of photos to work with. Then you select your template, drag photos into place, drag speech bubbles on top and type text into the speech bubbles. Comics can have as many pages as your storage allows. When finished, comics can be printed, exported as web pages, movies, photos, or uploaded to a .Mac account.
There are tons of curricular connections including: vocabulary, storytelling, storyboarding, etc.
Comic Life Samples |
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Help & Resources |
- 2nd Grade - Story Comics - Adam Bezark
- Five Senses - photos for this project came from pics4learning.com
- Making a How-To
- Field Trip Comics
- Gallery - check "Family Album" for a great example. "Comptines" is another good idea.
- Transformers - a clever example of using toys for actors and setting
- Brinkley, the dog.
- Professional Examples (not Comic Life): Comics.com, here you can find kid-friendly comics to use as examples, including: Peanuts, B.C. Pickles, Heathcliff, The Buckets, and more. Choose from the "Feature" pull-down menu in the upper right.
- Google Search results
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- Read-Write-Think (International Reading Association) - has online Comic Creator and lots of lessons that would work w/ ComicLife. Comics in the Classroom has planning sheets, graphic organizers, a rubric, etc. Comics as an Introduction to Genre study
- 3rd/4th Grade - Arts Edge Creating Comic Strips
- 3rd-6th - Alaska Lit Site - Comic Fun
- Literacy in Comics
- Webquest - Do Graphic Novels Belong in the Classroom
- Escraping - has some good idea for projects
- Comics and Graphic Novels - loads of links
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- Comic Life Home
- Comic Life FAQs
- Comic Life forum
- Comic Life Manual (50 pages)
- Comic Life Gallery
- Adobe Photoshop: the Comic Effect
- Media - photos etc.
- Digital Photography Resources
- Free (and not free) comic fonts
- 2 Page Handout (main page)
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Other Considerations
One of the cool parts about Comic Life is how well it integrates with iLife. This is great when you use it on your personal computer. But this also presents a possible problem using district networked computers. Before starting on a Comic Life project with your classroom, talk to your SCT, TRT or ETT about managing photos for a class. Thoughts on network media management.
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