Comic Life App

For this project, I used the Comic Life App that I had already installed on my iPad. I have used this app before for fun with photos of our family, but I had never thought of using it in the classroom.  For this project, my daughter helped me out and we created a little story she acted out with her dolls.

 

For my art class, students could make a comic that explains how to do something, like how to clean up the painting center.  It could be printed and posted as a reminder to students of the proper procedures for cleaning up. Students could also create their own comics by drawing illustrations either in a drawing app, or by drawing them on paper and then capturing the images and importing them into Comic Life or another similar app.  Students also would then be able to add dialog, speech bubbles and other elements to tell the story.  We could even publish a class comic book. I also think it would be fun to find some narrative artwork and let kids use the comic app to add dialog between the 

subjects in the painting, talking about the artwork from their point of view.  Students could use the 

Comic Life App as a form of evaluating artwork, which easily falls under Modification in the SAMR Model.