Genius Hour Blog Evaluation

My Learning Object

This week in our technology class, we were asked to explore a variety of learning objects that we could use in a classroom. These technological tools included sites like Wordle, Popplet, Audioboom, and Wikis. We explored the objects and then chose one of them to explore further and create our own.

The learning object that I chose to explore was comic strips. To be specific, I used the site toondoo.com to create my comic strip. This is a great tool to help students tell a story. You could integrate subjects such as science, social studies, and/or language arts and ask students to create a fiction or nonfiction story of their own. A comic strip is an engaging and interesting way to allow students to tell readers about the information that they learned over the course of a unit or allow them to be as creative as they would like.

In order to try out this learning object, I created a very short comic strip based on my Genius Hour Project. I told a very simple story about my goal and my training for my Genius Hour, running a half marathon. It is pictured below:

I would recommend letting students try to use this site to create a comic strip in the classroom. It was relatively easy to use and you can upload your own images and backgrounds onto the site if you do not like the options provided to you. In addition, you can create a book with the comic strips in your gallery. If you wanted students' comic strips to be longer than the one that I created, it is possible to have them create multiple strips and put them together in a comic strip book. I think students would really enjoy having this opportunity to tell a story through a different type of writing, such as a comic strip. I am looking forward to trying something like this in my own classroom in the future!