Ipod Touch comics

This week in 3F, we were using the Comic Touch app to add speech bubbles and text to our Martian images. This taught us how to add text (words) into the speech bubbles. We also learnt how to correct our spelling if we spelt a word wrong. If we spelt a word wrong a red line would appear under the word and if we tapped on the mis-spelt word, we were given choices of how the word could be spelt.

Noah discovered how we could turn the point on a speech bubble around so that it could face in any direction. He was able to show other people how to do this. Hannah discovered that she could make the point on the speech bubble longer or shorter.

Luke thinks that learning how to put text into speech bubbles is a way of helping the class to learn how to write text messages.

It was great to see some of the parents using the iPods in the classroom. Some of the children were able to teach a few of the parents how to use the Comic touch app so they could make their own comic.

Next week we are going to use 3 different apps on the iPod touch. We are going to use the I can animate app, story cube and Puppet pals. On story cube we have to shake the ipod and tell a story with the cubes on the screen. The cubes move and sound just like real dice. With I can animate, we have to take a series of pictures which will be turned into a little animated story. Puppet Pals allows you to pick your own characters and backdrops to tell a cowboy story. Once we have put our characters onto a backdrop, we can then record our voice to tell the story. Alex said that he has seen Puppet Pals on the iPad in the library.

We are feeling excited to try these new apps next week in our Language groups. We all think that using the iPod Touches is lots of fun.

Here are some of the comics the children created using Comic Touch