Ok, I know this is not one of the tools or programmes we've been dealing with last year in ECO II, but this programme really helped me this year in my Teaching Practice
As I wrote in the previous post, my project was about creating comics with monsters as their characters. So, in order to teach the students what a comic is, I needed to show them some real comics. But there was a problem: it was very difficult to find on Internet some comics written in simple language so that they can understand them, and they also weren't appropriate for their age.
I had to taught them the Verb To Be, feelings, colours, and descriptive adjectives. After searching, and searching on the net, I gave up and decided to do it myself.
The problem now was HOW to make a comic. So, I asked for help to a really good friend, Santiago, and he came up with the idea of using Photoshop; I had heard about it, but I didn't have the slightest idea of how to use it. However, I could count on my friend's help, who was really good at it.
As I wrote in the previous post, my project was about creating comics with monsters as their characters. So, in order to teach the students what a comic is, I needed to show them some real comics. But there was a problem: it was very difficult to find on Internet some comics written in simple language so that they can understand them, and they also weren't appropriate for their age.
I had to taught them the Verb To Be, feelings, colours, and descriptive adjectives. After searching, and searching on the net, I gave up and decided to do it myself.
The problem now was HOW to make a comic. So, I asked for help to a really good friend, Santiago, and he came up with the idea of using Photoshop; I had heard about it, but I didn't have the slightest idea of how to use it. However, I could count on my friend's help, who was really good at it.
When we started working I discovered all that you can do with this programme: You can cut images without their background, and paste those images on a new one; you can change the characters' faces, for example we had a happy monster, and by erasing its smile and drawing it a new sad face, it was done!
Although it's really time-consuming, it's worthy.
Here is one of the comics we made. My students really liked it!!
