Week+8

On March 8th, I was away in Toronto to watch a Raptors basketball game. They lost but I still decided to catch up by creating a **__Comic Life__** strip of my own. Hope you enjoy. Comic Life is extremely easy to use with point, click and dragging functions aided by templates. I can see this being used in a choice board for students to create assignments. I was able to make this comic in less than 1 hour so I imagine students who are capable wouldn't have much trouble either.

Bit Strips was the other software I tried out and this is my Avatar I created. I really enjoyed what was offered on this website since each avatar can be used over and over in different comic strips. I read other people's strips and enjoyed them as well. I can see students using this for class projects and the advantage is that they don't have to own the software. Free is the way to go!


 * Disadvantages:** Students may be subjected to sensitive themes since this is a public forum with strips from anyone and everyone.

=**Response to Reading:**= =What if? Technology in the 21st Century Classroom= @http://www.opsba.org/files/WhatIf.pdf

Today the skills in demand are **"...skills such as problem-solving, communication,**
 * decision-making, teamwork, leadership, entrepreneurship and adaptability."** The school must be a place for these skills to be learned. However, " students feel that when they come into school they have to “**power down” to fit into an environment that offers fewer options for learning than are available in the life they live outside of the school."** I see the authors point, with some schools failing to bring technologies in that can serve the students best.

Today's classrooms need to use the technologies that help students learn the best otherwise they are holding students back.

A great quote from this article I will hold onto:


 * "21st Century learners are adept at**
 * multi-tasking, grabbing information in bites,**
 * customizing it for themselves, and are engaged**
 * in sharing and building more knowledge all the**
 * time. They don’t think of the media they use as**
 * “technology.”**