Pixton

[|Pixton] Ernesto Tabajonda

The pixton web 2.0 tool helps you (consumer) to unleash your creativity, collaborate with others, create real comic layout, express yourself, style your words, add your own images, make your own art, show your personality and make the audience laugh. You may create a comic book using the template provided and you can edit the layout, character and panels to customize your comic book. Students can definitely edit the work and save the comic online, which makes it a perfect use for collaborative work in class.

This web 2.0 tool gives all individuals equal opportunities to learn by applying the UDL model. It addresses the how, what and why of learning….
 * 1) Students will be able to present information and content in different ways… By means of having the students collaborate in gathering information, facts and categorize what they see, hear and read.
 * 2) Teachers will be able to differentiate the ways that students can express what they know by providing organize way to write an essay or even solve a math problem by discussing the steps, and construct viable arguments related to the task.
 * 3) In addition, students will be able to stimulate their interest and motivation for learning through the challenge and interesting materials for them to explore.

Comic connection is a new tool of pixton wherein you can find collaborators to help complete your masterpiece and join a discussion with fellow authors around the world! Post a question; get answers from fellow authors, share tips & tricks! Talk about your favorite comics, your latest ideas, anything comic-related! There are 43 languages that you can choose from to navigate and explore, and it is a perfect way to use this tool for ELL students in a diverse population, as they are given an opportunity to use their native language as an entry point in completing the task. There are options to browse different template categories available online, such as love, relationships, culture, design, arts, funniest, daily top 10, special occasions, and all other template that best fit your comic book.

What I like about this web 2.0 tool is that you can layout your own character from facial expression, hairstyle upto the settings to make it more personalized and best suit the theme of the comic book and you can have students collaborate with others at the same time. Through this tool, students will be able to convey idea concisely, tell story in a logical sequence, communicate and collaborate with others. The pixton.com allows the user to have their comics printed, downloaded, embeded, or share online.

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How to videos? is another tool that can be explored by many of our artistic students who love to develop a film movie cartoon. They have the power to design their own character, persona and story. Many students are going to be given a chance to have this setup in the classroom to share and explore their potential using a real comic book available online. =====

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To register for a free trial, setup an account as a teacher and enjoy a 30-day trial for 50 student accounts for free. You will prompted to setup your own classroom, add student names and assign a project, Students must activate their account @ Pixton.com/activate and it will generate an activation key either a general key for all students or different keys for each user. I have created a sample project for my math collaborative project that incorporate the use of pixton comic to help support students in explaining their answers in a more user-friendly comic strips [|http://Pixton.com/ic:30ci9csa]this is intended for a classroom poject assessment where you can assign who will be the members of each group. All students in the list will be given a privilege to either edit, customize, edit the comic or can be limited accordingly based on the teacher setup for the project. =====

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What are the possible activities in using this web 2.0 tool? 1. Create a comic book club ( focus on a certain theme) for ELA, Arts and Journalism courses. 2. Use as a tool to write a summary of the lesson by discussing the important terms, steps, and theorems in class. 3. Create a dialogue among the characters to exercise the correct usage of grammar and composition of a sentence. 4. Create a collaborative project that addresses all component of the task, such as construct a viable arguments and critique the work of others .===== .