Playing with Comics Online

I have been working on the design and activities for an online class, Advanced Internet Uses in Education.  While I have used internet resources in several other classes, this is the first time I am teaching this class.  The web has a great number of resources that can be used for both formal and informal learning.  The challenge is to narrow things down but let students in the class have some options.

Students in the class will be required to complete some main assignments but will be able to choose some of the assignments.  Since I wanted to have a variety of activities for them to choose from, I needed to look at different tools that were available.  Students will need to have an instructional focus for all activities but that doesn't mean there can't be a bit of fun, too.  So, in the class I have included the opportunity to create comic strips, animations, and so forth.

I hadn't used comic strips for instruction (although I have used a variety of animations).  I decided to try to develop one using the freely available Stripgenerator at http://stripgenerator.com/ .  It was actually fun and easy to do.  I hope to make some additional ones in the future that have a tighter instructional focus, rather than just joking about "homework excuses".  Here's what I developed:

The Newest Homework Excuse by drksg

The site provides the code to embed the cartoon in a website, which is what I used here.  While my mother-in-law went into hysterical laughter about this, my husband just lifted his eyebrows at me. 

If you decide to try the Stripgenerator, please let me know how you liked it.  If you create a "teaching" related or instructional comic strip, please share it with me here.