Strip Generator: An Online Comic Creation Site
What is Strip Generator?
Strip Generator is an interactive comic strip creation tool that allows users to easily drag and drop an array of cartoon characters, objects, symbols, and speech bubbles into comic strip outlines. This comic strip generator is free to use and offers many options for story lengths. There are prefabricated strip outlines to choose from, or users can create their own custom outline. While the characters and objects are black and white, there is an extensive menu to choose from; creativity does not get lost in this tool! When the comic strip is completed, Strip Generator allows users to print their comics, link to it, or embed it in a blog.
Give me an example.
One way I have used Strip Generator is to represent data from a survey I conducted with my students. Often times, students have a hard time understanding (or caring about) results from surveys, assessments, or other data related to their learning. By creating a comic strip, the data becomes more student friendly and visual learners can grasp the numbers/percentages part of data. Here is an example comic strip I created after I conducted a survey about my students' excitement related to beginning to blog:
Want more ideas?
Comics created with Strip Generator could be used for writing short stories, summarizing chapters from a novel, or sharing a reflection on what students learned. A fellow 8th grade English teacher created a reference guide to the characters in A Mid-Summer Night's Dream to help her students keep track of the large cast of characters. (Thanks Kelly Hanson!)
This could easily be incorporated in Social Studies classes to visually represent events from history in a more modern way. Strip Generator would also be an excellent tool for foreign language students or English language learners as it provides an opportunity to interact with word in short sentences or phrases, combined with interesting visual images.
If you're looking for even more ideas on how to incorporate comics in the classroom, check out S. Hendy's slideshow "Tap Into the World of Comics."
Want to get started right away?
Use this simple video tutorial to get started making your first comic strip using Strip Generator!
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Hi Ric,
DeleteThanks for the comment! I'm glad you found this useful, and hopefully you can find a way to make comics your own!