PE5

Bitstrips for Schools

So the students are at lunch, I get to play in bitstripsforschools.com, a little bit. It is more dimensional than I thought. Other comic strip programs simply allow the student to create and print. With bitstripsforschools.com, teachers can create student accounts. The students can log-in to our "classroom" and create an avatar. You can see in the picture to the right, the students were able to log on and create their avatars in a short time.

While we were in the lab and the students were creating avatars, I went exploring. The site allows the teacher to create lessons. For example, I create my first lesson, The First Thanksgiving. The directions state for the student to create a comic about their visit to the first Thanksgiving. They will do this after a virtual field trip to Plimoth Plantation. I asked the students to answer three questions with their comic, "What do you like?", "What do you not like?", and "What surprised you?". I think we are off to a great start using our new Web 2.0 tool.