Many Worlds, One Li-Bro-rian

Ever wanted to create your own comic online?  Well today I'll show you a few tools that you can use and give you my thoughts on them.  Comics can be a great way to connect to students and make a lesson much more interesting.  I've used comics in a few different ways in the classroom, like using particular graphic novels as part of a lesson and having students create their own comic strips.  One of my favorite beginning of the year activities is having the students create comic strips demonstrating lab safety rules.  Though they usually do them by hand, I do give them an option of turning in their work digitally.  And now I have a few more tools to offer! Pixton Pixton is a pretty neat tool that even has educator/ student accounts.  The interface is pretty easy to use, and it has plenty of options in the graphics you can put into your strip.  With an educator account, you can set up a class for your students to join.  The program has you c...

Today I'm going to talk about some different social media platforms, their educational uses, and educators that already use it. Facebook I looked at school library pages for this section of my assignment.  What I found is that school libraries posted about recent school events, what was happening in the library, promoted work of the students, and had funny library memes.   An advantage to using Facebook is you get to promote your library and your school.   Using a social media platform like Facebook gets the word out about what the library is doing.   So many people have no idea what the library is all about, so this helps garner support for the library and its programs.   A disadvantage would be that Facebook isn’t particularly popular with teens.   They’ve moved on to other platforms, because now all of their parents are on Facebook (which could be a plus too). Twitter Here I will share some information about prominent edu-tech tweeters. I tried...