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This website provides a tool to make a comic strip with images from Flickr. You can enter the tagging words in the box and it suggests you with images with the tagging word that you entered. You can drag the image into the comic strips and type in the words. You may continue your strips with different pictures. This is possible because of two things. One Flickr provides copyright free images. Two, when people upload their photos, they label their photos with the tagging words so that other people can easily find what they like to use.
With this site, elementary students can create their storytelling strips. Even for high school students, I think this can be a fun activity to engage students. I would not use it as the intense project for high school students because the images are not original and it does not involve photo editing or other serous art making process. I would use this activity to introduce storytelling assignment in other software or to reflect students? process or assessment. As an assessment tool, students can explain their project process or how they feel during the process in the comic strips.
If I were to make it as one of the art lesson, I would ask students to take their own photos based on their theme and upload them in Flickr and tag their own photos to make strips. This would involve digital photography with lighting and composition. It also would give students opportunities to write according to their photos. Collaboration of a book making is possible without really heavy duty on an expensive software such as Photoshop because Flickr provides free photo editing tools as well. It lets you crop, change contrast, sharpen, rotate and resize.
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