1. Comic Master

2. What is it?
Comic Master allows you to create your own graphic novel using images, backgrounds, text bubbles and props
Web 2.0 tool
Allows you to save and print

3. Who invented this tool?
Brought to you by : Reading for Life Organization
Reading for Life also has a website that provides educational links for reading, communicating, music, film, sports, graphics etc.
Originally educational and still continues to be educational
How does it work?
Log into Comic Master using your address and password
Choose from backgrounds, effects, dialogues, and characters to create your own comic and or story
In addition to creating a comic you can also add music to the comic to set a certain theme to your comic
Demonstrate:

4. Comic Master in the classroom
Retell a story to show comprehension
Write a short story using figurative language
Expand a story by writing a alternative ending or additional scene
Write a brief story using new vocabulary words
Explain a math problem
Describe a science experiment
Recount a historical event with a superhero slant

5. Examples Anti-Cyberbullying Comic ELA teachers : Classroom use cases
Students wrote their own mystery stories demonstrating their understanding of the genre’s characteristics and vocabulary.
Students retold events from the American Revolution using a superhero slant for a social studies assignment
Classroom use cases
“The goal of any good teacher is to educate, even if the method seems unconventional.”

7. Using comic master in our own classroom
In Social Studies Classroom:
Use Comic Master to make a story of how WWII started
Use Comic Master to illustrate how a certain ruler/dictator in history effected his or her country
In Elementary Education
Create own story using five vocabulary words
How to solve math problems
Make own ending to a story

8. Advantages and disadvantages
Allows students to create original stories
Improve learning skills in communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking
Addresses many of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards
Disadvantages
Limited characters
Limited backgrounds
Need various choices
Upload your own picture