REAL LIFE SUPERHEROES

CREATING A COMIC WITH PIXTON

 The activity has been worked at the 3rd year of CSE. The students were organized in pairs to facilitate their collaborative work in the computer technology classroom. The activity has been approached through three sessions:

- Session 1: the students discuss in class about a text on real life heroes they have read and worked at home. Then, they sit in pairs and make up a story for their comics, writing the speech bubbles and comments.

- Session 2: the students work with Pixton, creating the settings and the different scenes for their stories.

- Session 3: the students present their comics in class. Their classmates asses their peers' works using the rubric given by the teacher. After the session, all the comics are printed and displayed on the English corner in the classroom, having the best three ones a highlighted post on the wall.

The main goal, the students provided a final written product including the contents learnt in the unit has been highly achieved. From the very beginning, the idea of writing a comic instead of a text (as they are used to do) awoke their curiosity and interest. They had to take a step forward on imagination. Later, working with Pixton meant a outburst of creativity. In some ocassions, I had to encourage them to focus on their task and forget about so many details. 

They definitely loved this activity. What would I change? Of course, more time!We will be using Pixton for our end of term projects on March.

COMIC: REAL LIFE SUPERHEROES