7th grade student gallery of Mai'Nada Comics Sketch #edtech #web20 #artsed #digitalstorytelling

7th grade BWMS art students got to experiment with the Comics Sketch tool on the Mai'Nada web site. 

I thought this would be a great web site for students to create an illustrated version of their formerlly created comic strips.

 

Alex's work

 

What the site actually does is it records every single "pencil stroke" that is created in the drawing, and then plays it back in an embeddable movie.

Users can add several panels like a comic strip, or just focus on one of them. The students can then embed their comic strip, such as onto Edmodo - but I wasn't able to get their work off of the Edmodo site afterwards.

Students do not have to create a username to start working, but then their work can get lost as some times the site just hangs up. My afternoon class had a few students that got to use the site, but only two of them could remember their log in info.

I think it is a nice site, but it could be very powerful with a stylus pen and if you wanted to show the individual steps on creating a detailed sketch.

 

Rebekkah's work

 

Vid #Tutorials: How to make an online presentation with 280 Slides or Empressr #edtech #artsed #web2.0

If you would like to use the site 280 Slides you can make an online presentation and turn it into an embeddable piece of work on your favorite web site. The site is really easy to use, all you need to do is plug in an email (won't have to check it) and you can make a simple presentation that can be embedded into a site or downloaded as a Powerpoint/PDF file.   (No audio allowed though).

Watch my video tutorial below to find out how:

280_slides_tutorial_-_create_account,_add_slides,_pics,_text_and_embed_to_Edmodo.mp4 Watch on Posterous

You can watch this video to find out how to login/register for a new account, upload your pictures, create new slides, type out your info and then embed it into your favorite web site such as Edmodo

 

Empressr is also a great online presentation site. It is also free, but just takes a bit more info when you start to register. What I like about it better is that you can animate your slideshow and create narrations that can automatically go through the whole presentation. Afterwards, you can embed the slideshow into your favorite site, but it is a bit trickier (watch video #3 to understand why)

 

Empressr_Tutorial_-_create_account,_add_slides,_pics,_text_and_record_w_web_cam.mp4 Watch on Posterous

Tutorial 1 - You can view this tutorial to find out how to create/register for an account. Afterwards, it is simple on how to upload your pictures, create new slides and even use your web cam for narrations or take pics/video of you.

Empressr_tutorial_2_-_insert_narrations,_customize_your_movie_and_embed_into_edmodo.mp4 Watch on Posterous

Tutorial 2- After you make your voice narrations, you need to know how to edit and insert them. I also provide some tips on how you can get your slideshow to automatically play with the narrations like a smooth movie. Finally, at the end, I show you how to save, but don't worry about the embed code part.....

Empressr_Tutorial_3-_The_CORRECT_way_to_embed_into_Edmodo.mp4 Watch on Posterous

Tutorial 3 - Turns out there are issues when just "embedding" your presentation from Empressr when you are all done. There is a trick that you got to do in order to use the embed code from your main "my empressrs" page. View this video to find out how to publish your video to Edmodo

Toon Doo tutorials: Digital storytelling in the form of embeddable comic books

Here is a collection of my Jing tutorials that I made up for my students so that they could independently publish their work from ToonDoo into the form of a comic book on our Edmodo site.

 

How to take your completed ToonDoo pages and arrange them into your book

 

 

Once in Toon Doo, click on "Toons" and then "Your Toondoos" Afterwards, click on EDIT under a page and you will be where the video starts

 

 

How to take your completed Toon Doo Book and publish it to edmodo