As much as I would like to say this was my idea, I can’t take credit for this lesson. Cathy Brennan had seen a sample of this lesson from another school. The overall idea of this lesson is simple and the kids had a blast. Students are always more motivated when they get to use images of themselves in their projects.
Here are the steps for completing this lesson:
1. Open Comic Life
2. Drag a template over to the blank page. We used “Four”.
3. Use the “Capture” feature to collect the pictures. Our first graders photographed themselves.
4. After each picture, drag the frozen image into one of the blank boxes.
5. Use the speech bubbles to show each time.
6. Save to the student folders.
