In preparation for the Manga iBook in class, the students just got to take some pics for fun using the free Manga Camera app. Some of these look quite authentic
I showed my students a little bit about Manga to get them introduced to this lesson. Here is an old Power Point that I used to do with my art classes when I taught them about Symmetry w/ Origami and Proportion w/ Manga Portraits
Over time, I also found some great resources within this Prezi
My 6th grade students studied a unit on Japan so I figured they could collaborate to create a piece of Japanese inspired animation (Anime) by using @redsoftware 's app: Animation Creator
In the past, I have done Manga work with my students, where they study the art of that time period while they learn about it in their sixth grade Social Studies class.
I wanted my students to utilize the Animation Creator app before they left me for the year, as I had some great examples in the past when my students made Greek Myth animations
If you would like to do something along this line, or a lesson on Anime, you can check out this Prezi that is a halfway conversion from my original Powerpoint with some elements copied from Lori Ingham's Prezi
You can also read about a recent Horry Independent article on my other students and how their use of IPods help them learn about their art content.
Overall though, I must say that I was a little disappointed with the school's IPods and the app itself. Not sure if it was a the school's wireless or the IPod's software, or a combination of both. SO I apologize to my 6th graders that not ALL of your animations made it into the film as I had a lot of issues of taking all thirty IPods home and uploaded them one at a time to YouTube .
