Best Day Ever Comic
Third and forth grade students created comics about their best day ever using KidPix and Comic Life.
Equipment needed: computer and color printer
Software needed: drawing software and Comic Life
1. Students brainstorm their best day ever. Who was there? Where were you? What were you doing?
2. Students use drawing software to illustrate their best day ever. Students could also illustrate this by hand and their drawing could be scanned to make it an electronic image.
3. Demonstrate exporting a drawing and dragging it into iPhoto.
4. Students export their drawing as a jpeg image and import it into iPhoto.
5. Demonstrate Comic Life, how to open it, set up a page, drag in an image, add speech bubbles and fancy lettering.
6. Students open Comic Life, drag in their illustration, and add speech bubbles and fancy lettering.
7. Print and display!
