PIXTON COMIC
To celebrate Women's International Day my school organized different activities. One of them was a comic competition. Students had to create a comic where they had to think over the relationships between boys and girls and how girls should not be under the control of men. The English teachers decided to work the comics in class with our students in a way to learn how to use a new application, to practise the language and to reflect on the topic in question.
I carried out this activity with my 3ESO year students. The students worked in pairs in the classroom using the portable computers we have at school. These were the steps followed to carry out the activity:
- The students could decide who they wanted to work with.
- I explained what the activity was about (the topic, the application we were going to use, the deadlines and the aim of the activity).
- Before the students started working, we went through some vocabulary that they could use to talk about the topic in question.
- Then we went through one example of a comic that I had earlier prepared using the Pixton application and I explained a little bit how this application works.
- The students spent one lesson working on their comic, which we later sent to the teachers in the competition board and they decided the winners.
- The winning comics are now shown in the screen we have in the school hall.
The students enjoyed using this application as they could practice with the many different possibilities that it offers. Even the students who are not very interested in the English subject were able to create their own comic and they did it with eagerness. The students were encouraged to create many different characters and situations and to imagine how they could use Pixton to transmit their message. It was a good task, even though none of my students won the competition in their level of studies ;)
This is the comic that I prepared as an example to my students.
