PIXTON Pixton is a comic creation site (as well as Android and iOS app) where creators can both make and share their comic strips. It's simple to navigate. After teachers establish a classroom site, they receive codes to distribute to students. Students can join by entering the code or teachers can manually add students to their class page. After students create an avatar (in comic form, of course!), they follow the step-by-step comic creator to begin their graphic stories. Teachers can make a specific assignment, or let students create freely. Options include the number of panels and the layout of a page. Visual icons help students add artwork, backgrounds, and text bubbles to comics (students don't draw their own stuff here but pick from a bank of fun images). A handy link to video tu...
Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting (known as ‘pinning’ on Pinterest) images or videos to their own or others’ boards (i.e. a collection of ‘pins,’ usually with a common theme) and browsing what other users have pinned. Using a visual orientation, the social network is very much focused on the concept of a person’s lifestyle, allowing you to share your tastes and interests with others and discovering those of likeminded people. The social network’s goal is to “connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they find interesting.” Users can either upload images from their computer or pin things they find on the web using the Pinterest bookmarklet. Here is my Pinterest Pin. I also used Piktochart to prepare my Pinterest Pin.
Storybird is an online software tool that can be used by a range of ages to create and publish virtual stories. Illustrations from artists around the world are provided to inspire story writing, and students are able to create poetry, picture books and chapter books. Students choose an illustration and are then provided with an entire collection of related images by the same artist they can move the pictures around making the possibilities of story writing, even within the same collection of images, practically limitless. Storybird can be used for a range of ages and depending on the learning objective students can be given freedom or required to write a story within certain parameters. Storybird has free teacher registration and allows teachers to invite or add students to their class list. Once a student has been a...
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