From Comics to Education

The Strip Designer app is available on IPads. The app allows for templates to be added to slides to create and design different strip options. The stripes can then be filled with different photos or drawings. The photos/drawings can be moved, twisted, and zoomed in or out. The app allows for balloons (speech bubbles) to be added, change size and color of balloons, use different fonts, and font colors. Stickers can be added from either preset options or created from pictures. The app also also for boarders to be inserted or change brightness of the pictures. Once finished the strip can be emailed or uploaded to thing like Facebook, or saved as a PDF.I believe that I can use Strip Designer in my future classroom. The app could of course be used for creative thinking or fun, but also by students in creating projects. Instead of using a normal presentation program, they could create a strip and tell a story similar to a comic. The app could also be used as an assessment (Create a strip describing the movie Holes) or create one slide at the end of each chapter describing the most important part. Perhaps students could also be told to design a strip that uses certain vocab words or describes the steps of a science experiment.