Teacher tips
www.bitstrips.com/landing
Create online comic strips and share them. Primary school teachers will use this tool for joint construction of whole class comic strips. They will also allow students to create temporary comics without registering and to screen capture these and crop them in W Pwr on
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Students under 14 years of age require parental permission to sign up. There is a cyber secure B
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• Cybersafety: Remind students when registering not to use their surname in their user name. When saving a cartoon, they should not include any identifying details in their title or cartoon content.
• Modelled and guided practice: Begin by selecting the number of frames for the cartoon and create a title. Using the Art library, show students how to select characters, scenes, props, wall items, effects and shapes. Use the Controls to create facial expressions and body movements. Use Text bubbles to show the thoughts and dialogue of characters. Show students how to use the controls below the frames to scale, move and rotate objects and characters and to add new panels. Invite students to jointly construct a cartoon with you on an interactive whiteboard.
• Share: Once they have saved and published, remind students to copy and paste the URL of their cartoon into an email to share with classmates, friends or family.
od. If student screen capture into o ePi t, they can select and right click on images to save as a picture,
Other worlds: To infinity and beyond with digital tools in the middle years by Lizzie Chase with S Bowes, D Ivanek, Y Liu, J Riley, J Starink
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