Comic Touch Lesson 5

The lesson created for this week is a comic of my family using Comic Touch.  I would use this as a project again using our older classroom buddies.  For this demonstration I chose to do a comic introducing my family to the class.

Comic Touch Lesson

1.  We are going to create a character comic today.  I created a comic for you to look at about my family.

2.  Look at the comic I created about my family:

3.  With your classroom buddy, choose a character trait that you feel you do best.  (Before this lesson, there have been several lessons on character traits and what they mean.)

4.  After you have chosen a character trait, look for pictures that show the character trait you chose with your buddy.

5.  Open Comic Touch (older students would have already had a lesson from their classroom teacher on Comic Touch so they know how to use it) and make a comic on the character trait you chose.

6.  We will be sharing these with the class at the end of our project.

Review/Analysis of Comic Project

How will you use this resource to meet the needs of your instructional purposes?

With a buddy, a student will be able to assess themselves and focus on a positive part of their personality that makes them a great person.  I think it is good to think about the things that make you wonderful.  The purpose is to identify characteristic traits that are positive.  By using Comic Touch, they will be able to show the character trait that they identify in a fun and creative way.

Why is this medium appropriate for the lesson you plan to create?

I believe using Comic Touch allows students to choose the style in which they present their information.  In the Comic Touch program, they can choose backgrounds from superheroes to wild west as the base for their comic.  I just chose superheroes because it appeals to me.  They will need to have a buddy help them with this because it is complicated for Kindergarten students.  Also, it was fun to see how my actual picture changed into a comic when inserted in the template.

What directions or tech support will you provide students before the lesson to focus learning and adapt this resource for your instructional resources?

Students will need to have background information on character traits in order to choose one that closely aligns with them.  Also, the older buddy students will need to have a lesson from their classroom teacher on the use of Comic Touch and be able to experiment with it prior to doing the buddy activity.

What are the potential problems, either language based or technical, that you may need to troubleshoot or prepare for?

I think one of the potential problems can come in with the amount of choice on how the comic looks.  There are many different fonts, bubble inserts, designs, colors, etc. that could sidetrack the project.  I think that at least for the first time creating a comic, I would have the students stick with a template that already has most of the options chosen for them.  They can still add to it, but I think that creating something from a blank slate would be too overwhelming and timely.