Communications & Collaboration Conceptual Change (KAT) Lesson Preparation Collaborative Writing Creating Infographics and Images Story-boarding Storytelling Description
Pixton is a popular comic creation tool well-tuned to classrooms that allows teachers and students to construct their own comic strips.There are a variety of comic strip layouts, numerous character and background choices, and a ton of creative options This is a great learner-centered tool that allows students to construct their own knowledge and display it in a way that is meaningful to them by allowing them to create comics representing their concepts and ideas.
There are a ton of resources. You are able to create your own assignments or borrow from pre-existing ones. There are a variety of layouts to suit your instructional needs including timelines, mind maps, and storyboards. Pixton also allows for a lot of creativity. You can upload your own images for the background, you also have direct access to creative commons images.
Pixton is simple to navigate. After you have establish a classroom site, they receive codes to distribute to students. Students can join by entering the code or teachers can manually add students to their class page. After students create an avatar, they follow the step-by-step comic creator to begin their graphic stories. You can make a specific assignment, or let students create freely. Options include the number of panels and the layout of a page. Visual icons help students add artwork, backgrounds, and text bubbles to comics
Features- Free for individual accounts
- Create and customize your own comics
- Let you give text and speech bubbles to characters
- Edit the shape and position of each comic panel
- Upload your own photos and personalize them the way you want
Affordances- Students can make comic strips digitally rather than by hand.
- Teachers can create a standard comic with blank text and have the students come up with the narration and comments to summarize a particular event.
- Students can create their own comics with specified characters or events to demonstrate their understanding of a certain event.
- Students can create their own comics with their own characters, settings, and text to construct their own knowledge about a concept, event, character, or anything else you can think of.
Limitations- Available art depicts mostly human characters.
Educator Usage
Pixton iPad App
Teacher Tips on Using Pixton in the Classroom
Teacher Tutorial Playlist for Pixton Comics
Some learning activities:
Math: Have students create a comic strip outlining how to carry out certain mathematical process, like long division, fractions, or order of operations. By adding in their own backgrounds they can include visual and textual explanation.
Science: Have students summarize a scientific discovery or the evolution of a scientific concept in comic form or have students construct a comic that illustrates a scientific process like photosynthesis.
English/Language Arts: Have students summarize a scene, book, or character by constructing a comic strip. They could also construct a timeline about these developments.
Art: Comics strips can encourage creative expression and Pixton is a way to motivate students who are self-conscious about their drawing skills to still be creative and expressive.
Platforms SupportedLatest version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari browers
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