Pixton

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Pixton is an online cartoon/comic strip tool that can serve multiple purposes in the classroom. It encourages creativity and gives students an alternative platform to demonstrate their understanding of concepts taught in the classroom. Pixton is appropriate for all subject areas and its uses are endless! Pixton provides free individual plans and paid subscriptions are available for educators. The free subscriptions are adequate for classroom use because you are able to create comics and share them via email or they can be embedded into webpages or wikis. However, the paid educator subscriptions would be wonderful if your school district would be willing to pay for it. The subscriptions are relatively inexpensive and provide classroom management options, a wider array of custom tools to use and privacy settings to protect your students' work. You can try the educator plan for 30 days upon signing up to see all that it offers.

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 * Here's how to get started:**
 * 1.** Go to [|www.pixton.com] and create a [|free account] (or a [|trial educator account])
 * 2.** Once you're signed up, you are ready to start creating! Click on "create" at the top of the page and you will be able to experiment with all of the tools available. You have the option to customize your own comic by choosing backgrounds and characters. You can also choose a "quickie" format where you can rapidly choose preset backgrounds, characters and speech bubbles; all you have to do is add the dialogue!
 * 3.** Check out the "How To Videos" under the Help section to get details on how to use the features of Pixton. You can also check out this Pixton tutorial:

[|Examples of Student Work]


 * Possible Uses for Pixton:**
 * Put narrative writing into comic form**
 * Demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary**
 * An alternate depiction of history events**
 * Create visual autobiographies**
 * Practice the use of dialogue in writing**

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 * Other Online Comic Tools:**
 * 1. [|ToonDoo]**
 * 2. [|Chogger]**
 * 3. Strip Generator**

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