This summer I went to one of those professional developments that lasts a week. And when you're on your way there, you're thinking, well even if this is terrible at least it takes care of my hours For The Entire Year. And sometime they turn out terrible and sometimes they are tolerable. And sometimes they are amazing. This one was amazing. Every afternoon after we had learned so much about East Asian literature that we were sure our brains were exploding, they had a session with ideas on how to use this in our classes. One of the cool things that I thought could be used for everything was Dinosaur Comics, which is the same images every day, but different writing about something not at all to do with the images, which is really funny. She gave her students blank dinosaur comics and had them write their own captions having to do with the literature. We tried it. It was fun.
So I thought it would be cool to use this tool to have the students create their own comics based on the literature. Or on biology or history or whatever, really.
Here is what I did with it (the picture is my own):
I also used this tool to spell my name:
Because I thought it was cool. I suppose you could use this for headers on projects. Or for word walls. What would you used it for?
Love the picture and adding a caption, that will be so fun for the kids. Also the header is great. Did you get to play around with wordle to make word clouds or glogster for paperless posters?
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