For the Comic Strip Assignment, it was a fun and creative project to partake in but this project had required lots of work and time to complete. From being a person that has trouble with technology, I found it a little difficult to complete this project as I had to play around with a new software that I normally didn’t use and I had to take some time to get used to it. I found it troublesome to insert the pictures from the internet into the frames of the comic strip as the software, Comic Life, did not manually do this for me. I had to adjust the size of the picture to fit in the frames perfectly, and I found this a bit annoying to do because I believed that software would adjust the picture size itself. Sometimes, the software zoomed in the picture I had chosen and cut off the important content of the picture. This especially made me frustrated as I had to remake the picture the same size of the boxes. In order to make the picture the same size of the boxes, I screenshotted the picture to make the size small and cut off unimportant content. Although the process of inserting the pictures in the frames was time-consuming, I found it fun to insert dialogue into my comic as it made my comic more interesting and brought some life into it. Comic Life was user-friendly for the templates as it offered many templates that I thought was suitable for my comic. I had to edit the templates sometimes because of the picture sizing problem.
I believe the idea of using comic strips to portray well-understanding of course material is ideal for courses such as Humanities/ English and Social. In the below, there will be three example of projects used in Humanities 8, Socials 11 and Socials in the order of comic strips.
Humanities 8: There will be Wolves Novel Project
Project Description: Your task of this project is to perform well-understanding of the novel by creating a comic strip of the novel, “There will be Wolves” for 10 chapters of the book. Remember to include the theme of the novel, and the climax of the novel. The comic strip should be visually-appealing and be evident of hard work and time spent on this assignment. The comic strip should also include the key elements of a novel(character, theme, plot, Types of Point of View, setting, conflict, and tone). Attach an outline to show your process.
Criteria/Assessment:
Reasons why that I made this assignment: I made this assignment for the students to understand the novel in depth and maybe help them memorize the key events in the book. This project can also help them to get ready for their test in the future for the novel.
This database gives information about health related aspects such as diseases, injuries, procedures, food and nutrition, sexual health, physical trauma, oral care, pregnancy, and parenting. The database will also be a great resource for research projects for health care. I would strongly recommend it for others that are having a future project about viruses and bacteria. The resources are reliable articles from popular magazines such as Men’s Fitness, Yoga Journal, Fit Pregnancy, and the Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription drugs. This site also provides others information about highlights about health. This database will be useful for courses like Food and Nutrition, Psychology, and health unit for Planning 10.
2.Canadian Points of View
This database provides information about Aboriginal people, animal welfare, Crime and Punishment, and Culture in the perspective of Canada. The database would be great for research projects about Canada as it provides students information mainly about Canada and it deals with my aspects as well. Courses that this database could be used are Socials 9-11, Humanities 8, and Social Justice 12. This database gives others journal entries, articles, primary sources about Canada and the resources can be highly reliable for students to use.
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This database gives students literary works, information about authors, full-text classics, and highlights about famous works and authors such as John Steinbeck. This literature database is recommended for students needing assistance with information about literary works and information about poets and authors. Classes including English 8-11 can use this database to research about authors and find recommendations for works.
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This Encyclopedia gives information and regulations on many political aspects including Laws of British Columbia, Historical Supreme Court Rules, Act/Ministry Responsibilities, Ministerial Orders, Bills, Orders In Council, Consolidated Provisions in Force, Proclamations, Corporate Registry Notices, Regulations Bulletins and Indexes, Defunct Regulations, Rules of Court and Related Enactments, Directives and Orders, and Expropriation Compensation Board. Courses such as Socials 11 can use this encyclopedia to learn about the government as it is a database specially designed for information about the government. This site can help students with politic terms and learn the government regulations in Canada. It is advised to use this site for government research projects.
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This online database provides information about literature, history, Current Events, health, and geography. It is strong advised to use this website for ideas for current events around the world as it could provide others information about the trending news. This database can also be used for research projects for Science 9 to 11 as it provides information on a large range of science-related aspects such as eukaryotes.
2 video databases:
1. CBC Youtube
This video streaming database could be used for current events as it provides videos about trending news and political tensions. It links students to the Youtube's official channel for CBC News and has a huge range of videos for CBC News. This database could be used for informational videos for Socials 11 as it provides some videos about some victories for Canada in history.
Video for Vimy Ridge Victory:
2. National Film Board of Canada
This video streaming database also provides videos for current events, animations, and documentaries. This database can be used for a wide range of courses as it provides videos for a huge range of topics such as biomes, and news. It is also a public streaming website and is does logins for SD36.
