What is Comic Life:

Expand what you can do with your digital photos! With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity - tell a story, even create how-to guides. This award winning software is fun and useful for kids and...big kids!

CCSD presently owns a district-wide site license for ComicLife.

Instructional Strategies:

Non-linguistic representations

Identifying similarities and differences

Cues, questions and advanced organizers

Lesson Examples:

You can create silent movies with Comic Life. These are third grade "Native American Museum" videos.

Apache Museum               Navajo Museum

 Help Sheets:

How to use Comic LIfe in the Classroom from MacInstruct

Using Comic Life for Writing Instruction

Comic life Hints.pdf

ComicLife_basics.doc

Online Resources:

Scott McCloud's Web Page (Scott is a leading American Comic Creator, Historian and Theorist)

Comics in the Classroom (Created by a Canadien teacher with links to online comics)

Teaching with Comics (A great resource for teaching cartooning, cartooning lessons and more!)

Articles and Readings:

Comics Make for Colorful Learning (Edutopia)

Comics as stepping stones to literacy: What one researcher found in Archie (Jim Trelease's site)

Wham! Zoom! Comic Book Project Improves Literacy in New York Schools

How to use Comic Life in the Classroom

People Resouces: