Comics have been a staple of American life for many years. I grew up reading the Sunday comic strips and read hundreds of comic books. Today’s students do pretty much the same thing with graphic novels. However, not many of us are capable of creating comics to express our ideas. Enter Stripgenerator. Com. It allows users to create a comic strip using a gallery of cartoon humans, beings, objects, shapes, and bubbles. These images allow even the most artistically challenged to create nice looking comic strips with minimal experience. With Strip Generator student can recreate an historical event, make a political statement, or do creative story telling.
The site has two services. Registered users can sign up for a free blog where they can create and post their comic strips to a blog for people to comment. All users can create a comic strip, download it, or print out a hard copy. What an ideal way for students to tell what they know, express their ideas or feelings in a format that they are already familiar.
Another interesting fact about Strip Generator is that while the site and all of its features are in English, the program and site were develop by a group of individuals in Slovenia. I guess the world is flat, but it still speaks English.
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Thanks for the link, I'm going to show this to my very artistic second & third graders this week and see if they can create a strip about healthy bodies that we have just finished studying. We'll see how well they do?!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your positive review.
ReplyDeleteStripgenerator has been around for many years actually, but I guess it has matured enough to be taken seriously. Reviews like this always get our blood pumping and right now we are extremely busy with the new version that will add some functionality, improve scalability and speed an make old users happy. After that, who knows.
thanks again. Stripgen team