Makebeliefscomix

I found a site where students can create comics.  This site can be used in a few different languages.

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

I created a comic quickly.  You can pick from a variety of characters.  There are different images you can add to your comic.  Your comic can be up to 4 different boxes.  This site does not save comics, so students will need to print as soon as they are finished.  You can email comics though, so students can print later if they don't have access to a printer.

Here is a link to what I created: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/?comix_id=34864482C912234

Here is a screenshot of what I created:










I found this site to be a little complicated at times.  When adding the speech bubbles, you can not change the size after you pick which one you want to use.  I found that to be pretty frustrating because the default size covered most of the box.

So far, this is not a web2.0 tool I would recommend because I think there are better ones out there.  I will see what I can find.

timetoast

As I was searching for Web 2.0 tools, I came across timetoast.com.  This site gives you the opportunity to create timelines.  I found this interesting because my students are currently creating timelines about a historical figure.  This site has a place to write a description and upload a photo to go with the event.

One thing I don't like about this site is that you have to specify a month and day.  This would be frustrating for some of my students who were not able to find exact dates about their person.  I ran into this roadblock when creating an example timeline of Deborah Sampson.  I did not have enough information to put months and days, but had to include the event because it was relevant to her life.

My timeline can be found here: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/deborah-sampson--21

I look forward to exploring this tool some more to see if there is anything else I can do with this tool.

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