Comics?  Are you kidding?  What's educational about comics?

Comics are another way to tell stories or other narratives - how-to's, ads, and others.  Add photos that the students have taken, and you'll have them totally involved in creatively writing their stories!

There is a piece of software called "Comc Life" that is really nice, but it costs money and you have to install it. 

Comiqs is a very similar application, but is completely online, nothing to install, and it's free!

 An introduction by video:

Here's an example of a comic done for a Spanish class project:

Additional comic applications - some have more possibilities than others

Download - not free, but demos available

For both Mac & Win - Comic Life - this one is really nice!

Win - My Comic Book Creator

Mac - Comic Maker

Can you find others - preferably free and online?  what about FL chars?

MakeBeliefsComix.com

toondoo.com

ReadWriteThink.org 

http://www.pixton.com 

http://stripgenerator.com/ - blog with comic strips 

http://www.wittycomics.com/make-comic.php 

http://www.kiddonet.com/kiddonet/comicsPlatform/thecone.html 

NOTE: still couldn't type in Japanese on the website, but it's possible to

copy Japanese from a Japanese Word Processor (JWP) and paste it

into the website. 

http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/index.php  

http://quicktoons.com/create 

http://www.bitstrips.com/ - you can do a lot with the avatar creation! 

Collected resources for comic strips:  http://www.tothepc.com/archives/10-tools-to-create-play-share-comic-strips-online/