Geek Brief 012708 -Comic Strip Creator

Make Beliefs - Comic Strip Creation

Think about the opportunity to have your students create a 3 pane comic strip as an alternative to conventional writing. MAKE BELIEF is your tool.

Make Beliefs is a free comic strip creation tool that provides students with a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for building their own comic strips. Make Beliefs provides students with a pre-drawn characters and dialogue boxes which they can insert into each box of their comic strip. The editing options allow users all kind of flexibility. You can change the size of each character and dialogue bubble, bring elements forward within each box, and alter the sequence of each box in the comic strip. AND, here is the best part: Make Beliefs allows users to write their comic strip dialogue in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portugese, or Latin.

Think of the options for any content area. A really fun way for students to be creative The program is internet based and allows for an easy print option- Allowing for a one class period activity. It is very cool-- Check it out!

(Thanks Freetech4teachers!)