#Free piccollage how to

#Free piccollage how to

How to make digital comics on PicCollageįirst, have students take pictures with the iPad camera of what will be included in comic. Next, open PicCollage and select the grid option – not the free mode. For dialogue, have students take pictures of each other and create a digital comic on the iPad with dialogue showing imaginary conversations or thoughts. Comics can be used in a lesson about dialogue, visualizing, and for planning a narrative. Students take pictures as they go and then use a comic format to explain their work. I highly recommend the open-ended story problems on Inside Mathematics for this. I have even had students draw the scenes if they are reading a chapter book without illustrations.įor math, I have had students make a digital comic to explain how they solved a particular story problem. You can also use Epic as a book source along with other online book resources shared by Jennifer Jones shares in her PicCollage and literacy presentation. Here is one made with the illustrations from The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – I will walk you through the process below! When we are using PicCollage with text, I have students take pictures of scenes and characters right in the book. In reading, you can have students retell a part of a book read or create a storyboard of a scene in a book or even add dialogue to a scene without any. Ideas for using Digital Comics on the iPad (Did you know any tech-interested teacher, administrator, educator, and coach can join? Click here to be added to our community where you can ask questions, respond to polls, and learn new info & ideas for technology integration!)Īnyway, I wanted to share in more detail how we have used PicCollage to make digital comics on the iPad and some ideas for digital comics in the classroom. One of our members of the Facebook community, Tech with Us, posted looking for some app ideas for making digital comics on the iPad.īecause our community is seriously awesome, many educators responded with ideas.