Using Comic Life I created the following comic strip about our family's Christmas 2009 experience. I kid you not, our entire family came down with the flu within about 3 minutes of one another and were up the entire night before Christmas doing laundry and cleaning up after sick kids. Needless to say, Christmas was not very jolly at our house last year. We are keeping our fingers crossed that this year is a bit more joyful in the Johnson household. I enjoyed using Comic life and I could see how kids could really get into this as well as they weave together images and text to tell a story.
My husband and I are actually hoping to teach a class this summer about graphic novels/comics to elementary and middle school students. My husband, being the more graphically-savvy guy is going to be in charge of helping the students create their images and I will be coaching them in creating complimenting text. It is an eight day course for elementary school students and a five-day course for middle school students. We are really looking forward to it. We're hoping for success, especially given the recent attention being paid to Graphic Novels as an exciting new literature genre.
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