Pixton

 

Hello!

Do you consider that working on speaking skill is boring for students? Pixton is an easy and intuitive tool for creating comics. It encourages creativity and motivation in our students. It is an ideal tool for working creativity, digital competence, collaborative work and writing skill.

Bearing in mind I wrote above, my main goals would be the following:

-          Encourage creativity.

-          Develop digital, linguistic and social and civic competences.

-          Promote collaborative work.

-          Work writing skill in foreign language.

Now, I will tell you how I would use it in my class.  Taking into account my groups of students, I will do groups of three of the third cycle of Primary Education.

Steps:

1.       Let’s invent a short and brief story in comic form (four or five bullets).

2.       The story is about Christmas. First of all, think that you are the protagonists.

3.       Later, invent the script.

4.       Once we have the story created, we start using the tool.

5.       Each group with their laptop begins by creating their avatar.

6.       Then, they have to choose wallpapers, characters and ¡start!

 In the last session, each group presents the comics on the Smart board.  

To the end of the session, each group uses an anonymous rubric to evaluate the work of the rest, about creativity, presentation, story… Subsequently, the results are discussed orally.

EXAMPLE