Create Your Own Comic with Pixton!

   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.

Picture references: http://wixton.wikia.com/wiki/

                               https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/INSITE/Pixton