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08 Apr 09

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  • It’s pretty obvious to me that my own kids are going to be living much more transparent lives than most of their teachers would be comfortable with. I’ve written and spoken ad nauseum of the need for them to be “Googled well”, and I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a parent’s responsibility to start that process for them. (That’s a post for another day.) I really do believe that in this moment, however, that schools also have a responsibility to help kids lead transparent lives online in ways that prepare them for the highly complex relationships they will be having in these virtual spaces as adults. But to do that, schools have to get more transparent themselves.

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages

Make Beliefs is a free comic strip creation tool that provides students with
a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for building their own comic
strips. Make Beliefs provides students with a pre-drawn characters and
dialogue boxes which they can insert into each box of their comic strip. The
editing options allow users the flexibility to alter the size of each
character and dialogue bubble, bring elements forward within each box, and
alter the sequence of each box in the comic strip. Students that have
trouble starting a story can access writing prompts through make beliefs.
Most impressively, Make Beliefs allows users to write their comic strip's
dialogue in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portugese, or Latin.

Applications for Education
Make Beliefs, like other comic strip creation tools, provides teachers with
way to get students to write in a manner that doesn't feel like a
traditional writing assignment. The option to create comic strips in seven
different languages makes Make Beliefs useful for foreign language teachers
as well as ESL/EFL teachers.

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