Story Me

Today I introduced Story Me to the students.  This free app is a comic strip creator app.  Comic strips in the classroom? You might ask. Yes, comic strips in the classroom.  This lesson ended up being part history and part language arts.  First I had to discuss and introduce the students to comic strips! I was shocked to find out that they had no idea what a comic strip was! Really you say!! Really!!! So I showed them Peanuts and my personnel favorite, Calvin and Hobbes.  Then I explained how you read a comic strip and finally talked about cells.  Then the students took some pictures of their classmates to use in their comic strips.  I also had them brainstorm to come up with ideas for their strip.  Next the lesson moved into the language arts portion when we discussed dialogue and the correct way to write dialogue.  We talked about flow.  The students enjoyed the lesson and many of them said that they downloaded the app on their iPads at home.  Below is a comic strip that I created using images that I got off the Internet.  It is just an example of what we did. Enjoy!!