1. Using Pixton By : Jerry Baughman & Ian Adair

2. What is Pixton? Pixton is an online comic book site where you can make comics and posters for any purpose. Professional, educational, informational, persuasive, personal Can create Sunday comics, one-liner comics, posters, and customize your very own comic book.

3. Features while making your comic Once you have selected your comic strip presentation, you can do all sorts of entertaining tasks within the comic to convey any message. Characters You can customize your own characters face The way they dress What they are wearing Characters are moveable You can move arms, head, legs, etc… You can put speech bubbles coming from their mouth to have them say a caption or question in the presentation.

4. Features Continued…… Colors can be added Voice-over can be recorded to enhance learning and help the hearing impaired Everything can be flipped, turned, and moved to wherever inside the comic strip box Props You can add backgrounds such as a city or a park to Objects such a office chair, football, boat, etc.

5. Why Use Pixton? Pixton uses animation, color, and movements that will gain students’ interest. Can express themselves through comics by transforming a medium already familiar with students This will keep students attention, for all ages. This can be used for one or multiple projects because of its free, or classroom version, that allows you to save all your work in one spot.

6. 21 st Century Learners Using Pixton, Students play an active role in their learning Use technological skills for an educational benefit Have the opportunity to be fun and creative Communicate and collaborate with others http://www.pixton.com/schools/overview

7. Pixton examples of uses in the classroom Kindergarden http://www.pixton.com/publish/tlzrzo2h Elementary http://www.pixton.com/publish/tlzrzo2h High School http://Pixton.com/ic:1w5a4fj j http://Pixton.com/ic:1w5a4fj j http://www.pixton.com/schools/library/

8. Downside To this Tool It costs money to have the classroom version. Does everything the free one has to offer but you get a little more movement, characters. Customization tools are better. There's more colors to choose from and there is a tinting setting to really get artsy with comic strip Can’t be used too much because there is only so much you can do with a comic strip Limited on lesson use Could be difficult to use with younger students

9. Reference "Pixton Comic Maker." Pixton. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Retrieved from http://www.pixton.com/http://www.pixton.com/