Teaching the history of parabolas through memes! Click on the cover to access the full PDF of The Shambling Parabola!
The Butterfly Lion
I’m not sure about you, but if I learn something in the context of a story I am much more likely to remember the details. Educators have accessed the incredible story telling power of Comic Life to engage students in…
Interactive Story Telling
The craftiness of educators blows my mind sometimes. I mean, really, y’all are amazing. In this post I’d like to highlight some of the super crafty action from the folks over at Davyhulme Primary School who have been creating some…
Multi Media Digital Stories Created on the iPad
Students build amazing stories that really come alive. View the original post to see more amazing storytelling projects. A recent class project – Multimedia Digital Stories using the iPad Over the past half term I have been working with a…
Using Comic Life Across The Board
Teachers are so creative it knocks my socks off sometimes. This is from the blog, Teaching With A Purpose. Comics are a great way for students to show their learning in a concise manner. They are limited to the speech/thought…
Dinosaur Escape!
There are so many layers of creativity going on in this project that I can hardly stand it! There’s creative writing, painting, mystery and intrigue, problem solving, and storytelling with comics. It’s just so good! Students at Whitefield Primary School…
Advertisement Analysis
Comic Life can be used to break down images. Elements like speech balloons and arrows can be directed to pin point areas of a picture, explain what’s being represented and tease out meaning. Students at Flordale primary school in Mississauga,…
Creative How-To Guides
We are fortunate to get so many great ideas from Comic Life users around the world. Lately we’ve seen a lot of examples of using Comic Life to create how-to guides for everything from using microscopes to creating secure passwords.…
George and the Dragon
Students from English Martyrs Catholic Primary School in Oakham, Rutland make some great comics using Comic Life. This comic about the tale of George and The Dragon was hand drawn by Rebecca and Adam. The students in the class used…
Attack of the Angry Birds
The Davyhulme Primary School 4B class goes all out making their photo comics with Comic Life. Their instructions given to the students were genius, and what they created is awesome. “Class 4B today made some fantastic comics combining different apps…
Volcanoes!
Two students, Yam and Leon, created a wonderfully in depth explanation of volcanoes. These year five students used the Retro template from Comic Life 2 for iOS to get started. They did an impressive job of fitting in all of…
From Vacation to Bedtime Story
We know that educators have used Comic Life to teach in the classroom, but what about using Comic Life to teach at home? Just recently we had an email from one of our users, Steve, with a great comic about…
Community Helpers Project
Thanks to a wonderful plasq community member, Steve Ignacio, here’s a great project for Elementary Students, grades 3 and up. In Steve’s original post on our plasq forum he described the project for us: This is a project for elementary /…
Educating With Super Heroes
Hello everyone, please let me introduce you to Jessica White from Mt. View Elementary. Jessica created a great project for 4th and 5th grade technology camp students using Comic Life. The project is multi-phased and involves building blocks which help…
Without A Shadow of A Doubt
You can use Comic Life to report on experiments. This class used Comic Life for iPad and the built in camera to document their field research on shadows and time.