Manga Camera / Comic Book app creations within Pages (samples and lesson plan)

After my students played around with the Manga Camera app, they would then edit the photos in Comic Book! You can see some other examples on a previous Manga Camera blog post

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They then arranged all of the edited photos into Pages along with a caption for what was going on. Here are the PDF's and if you scroll down lower you will see the instructions I made up. These are just a few of the most colorful pages I saved in PDF's, every student saved their file as a Pages document to be inserted into an iBook in the near future. 

If you scroll down to the bottom of this post, you can find out how to do this with your class and the rubric to grade it with

Jameson_manga_book.pdf Download this file

Magna_script_Cameron_.pdf Download this file

Magna_Script_Keiana_Haigh.pdf Download this file

Manga_scrip_Tyler_.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script_Brent_7-2.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script_Cody_Hardee.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script_Devin.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_Henry_Poston.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_juventino_.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script_Laly_7–2.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_Megan.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_Richard_.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_skyler_Jacobs_.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script~Hannah_Robbins_7-2.pdf Download this file

Teresa_7-2_.pdf Download this file

Finally, here are the step by step PDF instructions that show you how to do this with your class

Manga_camera_to_pages_instructions.pdf Download this file

And here is the Rubric by which the students will be graded

Manga_Camera_in_Pages_rubric_2.pdf Download this file

Manga Camera apps for fun - how to teach with Manga & Technology

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

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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

Student made Anime on @redsoftware Animation creator #edapp #mlearning #artsed #lessonplan

 

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 

Copy of Anime on 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 .