COMICS USING PIXTON

 At SCHOOL( CREATING CÓMICS)

This activivity was carried out in the third cycle of Primary Education, particularly, learners in 5 grade. It was thought in order to link several contents previously studied in language sessions. It was an interdisciplinary session which was really stunning for learners. We dove into the world of storytelling and comic's creations and it was a  successfully proposal!

Organization:

The organization was divided into groups of three. We started by splitting up into trios which huddled together all the time. I mixed up several group of friends to work together and have successfull results. Every student was given a work to do and then, every trios divided their works to do it. As an example, each group have to do among three or four cartoons, they would imagine their stories and their characters and they would represent it in the classroom. 

Instructions step by step:

Firstly, I showed them Pixton's platform and they followed several instructions watching my steps on my computer's screen to know how it worked. 

Later, every groups throw out their own ideas in a piece of paper for their imaginary stories. They were all about fantasy, adventure and fun classroom tales. 

After that, each member of the group thought about what they wanted to say every characters and the sequences of the cartoons. 

 In addition, the funniest part of the project was to make our stories pop them decorated with incredible illustrations and speech bubbles. 

Finally, every groups shared it with the rest of their classmates and they exposed it, showing off their hard work while they were talking about what they made it to get the result. 

Our main aim were to  improve writing expression while we were practising using ICTs tools. Pixton provides the creation of great resources such as this one because they can make their own creations and become real authors in their learning process. Furthermore, it gives you the opporunity to create their own avatars. In fact, every group has their own ones and it is really fun for them. 

All the groups loved making their own stories and pick up their own settings as it was real. Pixton allows us creating settings in parts and for children is really easy to follow because they can keep, check , eliminate and even restore their works.  

 On the other hand, the brainstorming part was the key to get those successfull results as I mentioned before. That is the case the following sample described above. If we could change something, I would have more time in order to explore and create fantastic storytellings and comics without time limits. The selection of the sequences entails a lot of responsabilities and we spent lots of time. However, it is quite easy to apply for children because of the selected parts in which it is involved the platform. Although there is no reason about the limits of time sessions. 

After all, every group shared their creations with their classmates which was a really useful way to interact to each other, to know their own views and learn to each other. 

All in all, this project was so creative and there were incredible results . It was an appealing way to get to know to each other and to work in groups while they were learning and having a great time at the same time. I am looking forward to apply this digital tool for more future projects and maybe do a well crafted project for Book's Day. 

Here it is the sample story of one of my students :

       

 https://app.pixton.com/#/