Comic+Life+in+the+Classroom

__**Comic Life in the Classroom**__
Comic Life was designed to create comic strips or arrange photos into a scrapbook. Can you believe that people are using Comic Life to advertise items on eBay! Comic Life is an easy and fun program that your student's will like using to create projects. Using the MacBook's built in iSight camera, Comic Life allows the user to take a picture and add it to Comic Life's page template very easily. You can also use Photo Booth to take pictures and apply effects to the pictures. Instructions on how to use Photo Booth is listed under Navigation.

__**These links will help you understand how Comic Life can be used in the classroom:**__
 * How to Use Comic Life in the Classroom - http://www.macinstruct.com/node/69
 * Links and Tips - http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/ComicLife/
 * Comics in the Classroom - http://www.comicsintheclassroom.net/
 * Comic Life in the Classroom - http://www.humblecomics.com/comicsedu/
 * ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Comic Creator - [|http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=21>]
 * Comic Life Meets the Curriculum wiki - http://comic-life.wikispaces.com/
 * Online comic strip creators
 * Bitstrips - http://www.bitstrips.com/
 * Makebeliefscomix - http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.php
 * Pixton - Comic Strip Creator - http://pixton.com/
 * ToonDoo - http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon

__**Storyboarding**__
It is very important that students create a storyboard of their project before actually creating it. Here are a few different storyboard handouts that you can use in your classroom.

__**Books at Lower Merion High School**__
These are examples of Books created using Comics:
 * Understanding comics – the invisible art
 * Comics and sequential art
 * Miki falls Spring
 * Hamlet
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * The invention of Hugo Cabret
 * Fruits Basket (complete series set)
 * Kekkaishi (Japanese Manga)