Create a Comic Book
To piggyback on my post about how to use comic strips in the classroom, I have found this video discussing how your class can create a comic book. This can be a great individual, partner, or group project. It is a fun task that students can complete and show us what they know about Deaf culture and history. It is a good expansion activity after a culture lecture. So many times we talk about the culture of the community in a bubble or single lecture then never refer to it until we test students on the information. How do we know they really understand? A comic book can be a great way for students to show what they have learned and allow teachers a way to assess student learning. Enjoy!
Go Digital
Another idea is to use an online story generator like Powtoon to make a digital version of a story. If you include Screencastify to play the video and show the student signing at the bottom of the screen you get a win-win. If you are a Google Classroom user this also works well with Google Slides and workes seamlessly within the Google platform.
Ideas
Ideas for this activity can be any culture topic you cover, but the ideas I love are:
- The story of Gallaudet and Alice
- History of technology
- Dummy Hoy
- First School for the Deaf
- The founding of Gallaudet University
- AGB
What comic book will your students make?
