comics in education
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Presentation for MOODLE MOOC 3 on WiziQ with Dr. Nellie Deutsch.TRANSCRIPT
Research: www.visuallanguagelab.com
Creative Comic collaboration For
Fun Fluency Development.
MOODLE MOOC 3
Comic characters by MakeBelief comix
MakeBeliefsComix.com
Research: www.visuallanguagelab.com
Creative Comic collaboration For
Fun Fluency Development.
MOODLE MOOC 3
Comic characters by MakeBelief comixInterview questions Comic ideas
1) Planning Brainstorm, Interview, mind map
2) Linguistics Cohn, Sousanis, spin, weave, cut
3) psychology Vygotsky, Cohn, Zimmerman, McCloud
4) Personal story Personal story lesson plan & grassroots
5) Emotional Intelligence Self-expression & feelings
6) Special needs From comic to drama
7) Creativity and fluency Blank bubbles, mood, story
8) Characters as surrogates Safe, magical articulation.
9) Advice to teachers Challenge to experiment
10) Resources 350 printables, blogs, comics, apps
Conclusion Wrapping up with useful links
Research: www.visuallanguagelab.com
Creative Comic collaboration For
Fun Fluency Development.
MOODLE MOOC 3
Comic characters by MakeBelief comix
Research: www.visuallanguagelab.com
Creative Comic collaboration For
Fun Fluency Development.
MOODLE MOOC 3
Comic characters by MakeBelief comix“Just like words in sentences are used
in spoken languages…..sequences of images can
create a visual language”
Neil Cohn
es.
“The process of using drawn characters and writing words for them
to say or think provides a way for
students to integrate key material.”Bill Zimmerman
.material that they are taught each day in school, as well as to reflect on their life
Today, comics is one of the few forms of mass
communication in which individual
voices still have a chance to be heard.
Scott McCloud
“To be better thinkers, to be more whole in our thinking, we need to engage the various viewpoints, the different ways of seeing that we have at our disposal.
In a grand sense this means not building barriers between the arts and
sciences.”Nick Sousanis
www.visuallanguagelab.com
When we combine visual language with spoken and written
language, we create more meaningful
channels of communication. This aids comprehension, memory, language development and
increases motivation.
Comics & linguistics Comics classroom
www.visuallanguagelab.com
What an exciting day!! I’ve got to
make a presentation about
‘comics in education’ at an
important webinar and interview Bill Zimmerman from
MakeBeliefsComix.com
I’ll write out some
questions for Bill and then mind map my
ideas………
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story
behind the building of the
Make Belief Comix website?
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
My own love of comics and
understanding of their value as a
learning tool began when I was
a child.
Question 1
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Collaborative comic ideas
Retelling personal stories.
Students think of a good story from their lives. A comic strip maker with objects, characters and speech bubbles can provide the thinking tools necessary to help simple stories to evolve. A fun thing about MakeBeliefsComix is that students can represent themselves as either human or animal creatures and this all helps to open up the imagination.
First demonstrate by telling students a funny story from your own life and then show them your comic strip. Ask a couple of students to retell your story, using the comic strip as a visual guide. Adapted from storytelling ideas on waze.net
IDEA 1
Grassroots comics
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Collaborative comic ideas
Some story prompts:
- a funny thing that happened when you were young- a lucky escape- an embarrassing moment- your best day ever- a romantic evening- an adventure while travelling
Students create their own stories at home or in class using online sites like MakeBeliefsComix.com or on print-outs from the website.
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Collaborative comic ideas
Instruct the students to tell their stories to their partners using the comic strip as a prompt.
When they have finished telling their stories to their partner, they swap the comic strip. Then students find a new partner and retell the story based on the comic strip they have.
As this goes on, students get to retell many different stories that were originally inspired by their classmates.
Finally place all of the comic print stories together, and let the class identify who wrote the original story. Then display the comic printouts around the classroom.
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Collaborative comic ideas
Online version
How can online students work in pairs or groups?.
They can pair up with partners via break out rooms, skype, hangouts, or asynchronously using voxopop, or mailvu, for example.
In this case they can tell the stories without revealing the comic strip.
They continue retelling stories with new partners. Finally, the whole class meets in the virtual classroom and teacher showcases the comic strips. Everyone has to guess who created the original one.
Then the comic strips can be posted on a class blog and shared on pinterest, class comic sites, electronic posters, such as eduglogster, or wikis, or other visual media sties.
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
What role do you think that emotional intelligence plays in the language learning process?
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Much of my work is to help students tap into the memories and deep feelings
which nurture them..
Question 2
Emotional intelligence
Creative writing
Using words and pictures together in groups:
Choose a theme the class has been studying and which, preferably, “helps students to tap into memories and feelings”. You can provide some vocabulary and/or grammar structures if you want to focus on form.
Next give random images to each group and they must create their stories around the images in comic form using both captions and speech bubbles to build up the background narrative and introduce dialogue.
Collaborative comic ideas
IDEA 2
Images, words, feelings
Creative writing
Vocabulary and feelings:
Make a list of ‘feeling’ words that you’d like to teach your students. Your aim is to develop their self-expression and self-awareness through creativity. Here’s a sample list.Angry, sad, embarrassed, frustrated, bored, excited, jealous etc.
For more advanced students create a more sophisticated word list. I wrote a story based on feelings from ‘nonviolent communication’ – a language of life – Marshall B. Rosenburg.Find ‘Natural English through story-telling on amazon.
Collaborative comic ideas
IDEA3
Self-expression
Creative writing
Vocabulary and feelings:
Students create comic strip stories in groups based on their list of ‘feeling’ words. This is a wonderful collaborative activity because in doing so, students are really sharing their perceptions and memories of feelings and combining them to create new imaginary experiences.
The MakeBeliefsComix.com site also lets students choose facial expressions for their characters.
When all of the stories are created, each group can act out their story for the class and then reveal their comic strips.
Collaborative comic ideas
New imaginary experiences
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
How does your website help those with special needs, autism or even dyslexia?
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
It helps student to create stories which help them to express
what is inside of them.
Question 3
Special needs
Creative writing
Best practice for special needs,dyslexia and all teaching:
Dyslexic students are primarily visual learners. That’s the power of comics in helping dyslexic students to read and write.
Make stories come to life. From comic to drama. This could be from a real comic, one you created especially, or one they created themselves.
This idea incorporates drama with something I learnt from a recent webinar with luke Prodromou. Create a magic box for the class where students bring in their favourite soft toys or puppets and keep them in the box. Students create skits or puppet shows to act out stories from the comic. Being dyslexic What is dyslexia? Also inspired by specialed.about.com
Collaborative comic ideas
IDEA4
Comic to drama
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
How can storytelling through comics develop creativity and
fluency?
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Students with limited reading or writing skills are not as
overwhelmed in dealing with comic panels as they might be
with too much text.
Question 4
Creativity & fluency
Creative writingCollaborative comic
ideasCan you
resist blank
speech bubbles??
IDEA5
Blank bubbles
Creative writingCollaborative ideas
Step one.Listen to a dialogue from a movie clip or audio file.Write down what you can hear.Check what you wrote with your partner.Check with transcript.Convert into a comic dialogue.
Step twoPersonalise.Add a new element to the dialogue. Different tense, mood, characters. Create new comics and dialogues based on these changes. Compare and contrast with originals and discuss differences/similarities.
Audio/video/dictation
Let’s have a self-
expression brain-storm.
IDEA6
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
What's the idea behind using comic characters as surrogates for self-
expression?
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
I think using these characters to express our ideas and feelings provides a safe way for students to say what is
deep inside them.
Question 5
surrogates
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Collaborative comic ideas
If you could be one of these characters for the day which would you choose, what would you do, how would you feel?
Which character suits your friend/partner /family member/pet in your opinion? Create a character for your friend. Choose a character and create your story.Also inspired by story arts.
IDEA6
Characters
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Advise and challenge
Question 6
What advice would you give to teachers who want to start teaching
with comics??
I’d like to throw out a challenge to the teachers to experiment and set aside a 20-minute period at the end
of each school day when kids are encouraged to create a daily comic
or comic strip of something they learned or read or experienced or
imagined that day
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
350 more lesson plans
Special needs
Limitless lesson ideas
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
IDEAS AND APPS.
MAKE BELIEF COMIX IS NOW A FREE IPAD APP
21 WAYS TO USE MAKEBELIEFSCOMIX.COM IN THE CLASSROOMBy Bill Zimmerman
Students talk to the New York Times about learning EnglishMakeBeliefComix
Explore
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Collection of significant links.
SPECIAL NEEDS
SPARK YOUR WRITING
MakeBeliefComix Resources
AUTISM SPECTRUM
LEARNING DISABILITIES
SPARK YOUR WRITING
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Wrapping up.
More useful links
20+ tips for teaching with comics
Shelly Terrell
Social and emotionalapproaches
Sylvia Guinan
Creative and happy
Sylvia Guinan@WiziQ
Follow me at www.sylviasenglishonline.org
The End….and the beginning
Scoopit links
Janet Bianchini
Scrambled comic collaboration
1) Find or create a comic strip and cut up the panels so that the story line is mixed-up.
2) If you want to practice specific vocabulary or grammar it’s best to make your own comic and feel free to design the story as you please.
3) Put students into groups to recreate their stories.
You can use comic websites online ,Cut up old comics, or draw your own.
Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?Do you have a personal story behind the building of the Make Belief Comix website?
Acknowledgements::.MOODLE MOOC 3
Special thanks to Dr. Nellie Deutsch for organising the MOODLE
MOOC and for this invitation to present.
Also thanks to Shelly Terrell for EVO
eperfect ebook inspiration.
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