Creating comic strips using Strip Generator

Comics are a great way of telling a story. They can be used to:

• Create hypothetical situations that could happen in real life (for example, a conflict or a funny situation)

• Create a storyboard for a movie

• Narrate an event

If you are getting worried that we will have to draw something and your skills are, well, those of a 10 year old kid, that's not a problem, as mine aren't that good either! Fortunately, there's a tool just for you and me, called Strip Generator, which will save us from further humiliation in front of our students and colleagues. In our course in Moodle, in Module 5 Being a musician, we will design an activity where students have to create a story based on a day in the life of a musician, and they will be required to use this tool to illustrate this. As we will be using a comic strip, we will be drawing the results in an image. We can then add this work to the Moodle course easily, as an attachment to a forum.

Strip generator (http...