Take your own pictures and let students be the stars of the comics! Here is one favorite way to personalize comics, or for students to personalize book reports, essays, and other digital products. Use the Alice Keeler Webcam Snapshot Chrome extension to take a webcam picture. When it saves to Drive, just insert it into your comic from Drive. They can pose, dress up in character, bring in props, etc.
Comic Google Drawing template You can resize your Google Drawings or Slides to make them wide like traditional newspaper comic strips. Go to File > Page setup > Custom. Choose the size you’d like. In this template, I made it 8 inches wide and 3 inches tall. Resource: Matt Miller Have you used Google Jamboard? It is a fun new tool that lives in your google suite apps.
With Jamboard you and your students can:
Templates from Matt Miller Thumbs Up Fist to Five Three Things For more ideas, go to: https://ditchthattextbook.com/jamboard-templates/ Here is a link to my Snap&Read help guide.
Why use Snap and Read? Snap&Read will read webpages, Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Classroom, etc. aloud to students, when they are using the Chrome. web browser: This is a valuable tool for our lower readers. If it isn't installed on your classroom Chromebooks, just put in a help ticket or ask Dawn T to have IT install it on all PC Chromebooks! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RKy1UnK_dbSwzSIx_PfKntp8EZEwmWhIGLMBndEVCJA/preview Many people have asked how to display the bookmarks bar on a student's Chromebook.
1. Click on the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner of the screen. 2. Navigate to Bookmarks and then to Show bookmarks bar. |
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