Literacy Resources

I talked to a group of boys today about writing and how they felt about it.  Their responses were perceptive and showed a way forward for those of us working with them. What do you like to write about? This brought up the usual things such as aliens, the future, dragons and comic heroes.  When [...]

I am thinking about collaborative writing at the moment and I also love comic creation sites as they have so many uses in the classroom.  With Pixton you can do both.  Pixton allows you to create comics and then make them available for others to remix. Comics are a great way to show pace through [...]

comic-life-pod - to hear about Comic Life click on the link.   This is a fantastic bit of software.  It takes pictures from your computer or captures them from a webcam and then puts them into a comic format.  See the software at http://plasq.com/comiclife-win where you can download a free 30 day trial.  You can add text and [...]