Hello again. Like in my previous post, I will introduce a website but this time it will be a website that my friends Seçil and Yağmur presented in our class. It is called Pixton. It enables you to create comics online. The website offers you three options to work with, these are: Pixton for fun, for school and for business. After you choose one of the options, you need to sign up or log in with either your Google or Facebook account.
When you log in the site then it's time to start creating your own comic and characters. You need to click "my comics" button and then you can start either by creating characters or comics. After that, you can select a layout among many options. When you decide on the layout, then you must add characters to your comic. Again you have options. you can create your own character, choose from community that includes characters other people created and you can add new ones but you must make payment for them. Creating your own characters is amazing, if I were you I would use my own unique character. When you make your choice about characters, you can select a suitable background image or you can upload your own photos. And you can add speech bubbles to your comic. By the way, you can see some buttons at the left side of the page, these are Move mode, Green mode for expressions and poses, Orange mode for appearance, Pink mode for proportions and finally the color wheel mode to change the color of a selected item.You can make changes with these buttons. And if you want, you can add panels also.
When you completed your comic you can share it or you can send it by email but if you want to print or download your work, payment is required.
And it's time to talk about it's effective use in language classroom.
This is a useful tool for teachers to use in classroom activities but I should remind that this tool is not suitable for young learners because of wide range of options tool has. Instead of this you can choose more simple tool like Storyjumber that I wrote about in my previous post, because it has more limited options.
Teachers can ask students to create a comic about their most unforgettable memory or their one common day.By this way, they learn to think creatively and improve their some basic skills like writing, vocabulary etc. And also it is very entertaining.
https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/INSITE/Pixton
Hi everyone! It has been long time since I wrote my last post. Now I am here to introduce an amazing website that enables students to create their own story and the storybook. And also students can read stories that other people shared on the website. It is called Storyjumper. Me and my dear friend Hüsna Uzun presented this website in our classroom. And now, I will talk about it for you.
This website was designed to create stories with visuals. It is very simple to use it. We also tried to create a story with my friend to try the tool and it was very enjoyable experience for us.
Lets look how it works step by step,
Here is the main page;
You need to enter your name in the little box and you should choose the gender. Then, click the "Make book" button" and go on.
After, you will see a page like this.
According to your own story you can choose suitable background image by clicking the "scenes" button and also you can upload your own photos. After choosing the background image then it is time to choose characters. By clicking "Props" button you will find a lot of props.
And you can flip, rotate, move or delete them completely. And it's time to add texts to your storybook. You will see the "Text" button at very top of the page.
After finishing up the story then you can decide on the color of the back cover and front cover page of your book. Finally your book is ready!
Now lets talk about how we use this website as an effective tool for students in language classroom.
Firstly as a teacher you can ask students to create their own story or create one of their favorite story on Storyjumper. Or you can ask them to make up a story concerns the that day's lesson topic for example about Tenses, Modals, etc. By doing so, they can reinforce the topic by themselves. This tool helps students to enhance their ability to think creatively. And they can improve their vocabulary knowledge also. For me the most important benefit of this tool is that students learn in an entertaining way.
Picture reference: https://www.graphite.org/website/storyjumper
