Bitstrips
For my learning object, I decided to create a short comic strip using the website http://www.bitstrips.com/ I thought this would be a fun and engaging way to get students to understand a concept. This way they are not just reading facts, and memorizing but learning through a fun little short story. This is also a more visually appealing way to gain students interests. This was my first time actually creating a comic strip using this website. I was eager and excited to try it out because I wanted to create something different for my students. However, I did find using this particular form of instruction very challenging as I am not an expert with technology skills. I was easily frustrated during the process as sometimes it did not let me place objects or words in the areas that I would have liked to place them. I found that as much as I was trying to create something to show a concept, I focused much of my time on learning how to use the program. I also chose to do a comic strip on rounding numbers in math. I believe math may be one of the trickier subjects to put in the form of a comic strip just because it is so abstract and requires notations and symbols which the website does not allow you to do.
I realize now that I should have chosen a different curriculum subject like social studies or language. I probably would not use this to teach math or demonstrate a math concept only because of its limitations in using words and symbols. But this would be a great tool for teachers to use for online story telling or to get students to create their own virtual comic book stories which would correspond with the language arts curriculum. Students would love this! It is definitely something I would like to use in my future classroom.
This type of learning tool works best if you get the students to create a comic based on what they have learned from a lesson or topic. This way, teachers can assess students understanding on a particular topic and see by their creation of a comic strip if they are able to communicate their knowledge and understanding of what they learned. At the same time, students can have so much fun doing this! This definitely speaks to their interests and they will be having fun constructing their comic strips! Give it a try!
The strand I chose to demonstrate in my comic strip is linked with grade 3 number sense and numeration. My grade 3 class is currently in the process of learning how to round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. The overall expectation is: students will read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 1000, and use concrete materials to represent fractions and money amounts to $10. The specific expectation: students will be able to round two-digit numbers to the nearest ten, in problems arising from real-life situations.
For my learning object, I decided to create a short comic strip using the website http://www.bitstrips.com/ I thought this would be a fun and engaging way to get students to understand a concept. This way they are not just reading facts, and memorizing but learning through a fun little short story. This is also a more visually appealing way to gain students interests. This was my first time actually creating a comic strip using this website. I was eager and excited to try it out because I wanted to create something different for my students. However, I did find using this particular form of instruction very challenging as I am not an expert with technology skills. I was easily frustrated during the process as sometimes it did not let me place objects or words in the areas that I would have liked to place them. I found that as much as I was trying to create something to show a concept, I focused much of my time on learning how to use the program. I also chose to do a comic strip on rounding numbers in math. I believe math may be one of the trickier subjects to put in the form of a comic strip just because it is so abstract and requires notations and symbols which the website does not allow you to do.
I realize now that I should have chosen a different curriculum subject like social studies or language. I probably would not use this to teach math or demonstrate a math concept only because of its limitations in using words and symbols. But this would be a great tool for teachers to use for online story telling or to get students to create their own virtual comic book stories which would correspond with the language arts curriculum. Students would love this! It is definitely something I would like to use in my future classroom.
This type of learning tool works best if you get the students to create a comic based on what they have learned from a lesson or topic. This way, teachers can assess students understanding on a particular topic and see by their creation of a comic strip if they are able to communicate their knowledge and understanding of what they learned. At the same time, students can have so much fun doing this! This definitely speaks to their interests and they will be having fun constructing their comic strips! Give it a try!
The strand I chose to demonstrate in my comic strip is linked with grade 3 number sense and numeration. My grade 3 class is currently in the process of learning how to round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. The overall expectation is: students will read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 1000, and use concrete materials to represent fractions and money amounts to $10. The specific expectation: students will be able to round two-digit numbers to the nearest ten, in problems arising from real-life situations.
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