Cartoons and comics

 Cartoons and comics

FOTOJET: The fun aspect of this site is that you can use your own photos to create the cartoons. But the images must be on the device or uploaded to the device, and it may be difficult to find images that fit the topic (though I didn’t have that issue). There are also a limited number of free templates on the free membership. But the paid subscription is fairly inexpensive: $40/year or $6.99 per month. It was fairly easy to use the template and manipulate its parts.  
Pixton: The free subscription had a lot of free templates, backgrounds, and characters to choose from.  The characters were easily modified, including their poses and facial expressions, which was fun to play with.  But once the characters were added, they could not be easily removed from future panels (I had to move off screen, could not delete). There was also a limit to the number of characters, which prevented me from including all the characters needed in a few panels. To allow students to create as a class would require a subscription, which was $12/month for individual classes, fairly reasonable, but is not required for student 






 Makebeliefscomix: Plenty of backgrounds and characters to choose from on the free account, but characters were limited as to expressions/poses. Backgrounds, once chosen, had to be the same throughout panel, though it could be resized.  Otherwise, it was fairly easy to manipulate all available tools. A plus, at least from what I saw, is the site is completely free and runs on donations only so no subscription is required.


Ways I can share comics with teachers:
1. This evaluation is one way I could share cartoons/comics with my colleagues. This shows the pros and cons of each site and gives examples of what can be created on each site. I could then show them the sites and let them explore for themselves the various uses for them and their students.
2. I could create products for display such as number 3 above which discussed renewal policies. These could easily be turned into posters for display around campus. These could easily describe checkout policies, acceptable use reminders, technology hints, etc.  




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