Digital comics are a great way to practise language learning in the classroom. Presentation given at AGIS 2013 in Hanover.

1. 20 effective ways to use digital Victor González
comics in the classroom AGIS 2013

3. DC Comics: Robert Thorndike and Harold Dones created a
language training book that used the comic Superman.

4. The beginning of comics-supported curriculum

5. First academic journal articles about education and comics

7. Frederic Werthman

8. Comics kill reading

9. They had to be politically correct

10. Horror, zombie, terror
were banned

12. 1970s: teachers dared to bring comics into the
classrooms

13. Visual and popular

14. Maus: First comic book to win the Pulitzer prize

15. Artistic,mature literary works

17. Graduate programs in comics

18. Promoting comics in education

19. Benefits of using comics in education
1) A great visual representation of knowledge.
2) Easy to remember.
3) Enrich reading writing and thinking.
4) Perfect avenue for writing dialogue.
5) Incite students with low interest in writing.
6) Help organization through storytelling and storyboarding.
7) Using visual images convey meaning to a story or topic
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8) Sequencing promotes understanding

26. In comics, complex material is represented in
ways that reduce the cognitive demand of
reading dense text while sophisticated
concepts are portrayed.

27. How can we use online
comics in the classroom?

28. Benefits of using comics in education
1. Sreen capture of your games and create a comic
research assignment.
2. Write an interview.
3. Convert a story novel or poem.
4. Write an original story.
5. A current affairs item.
6. Reflection tool: excursion or class lesson.
7. About me.
8. Revision. Using vocabulary learned.
9. Bring song lyrics or poems to life.
10. Historical event-timeline.
11. Biographies.
Source 12. A travel guide.
13. Tell weather stories.

29. 14. Make an instruction manual.
15. Show an invention and how it has affected
people.
16. Change an endling to a story.
17. Write about a discovery.
18. Share the cultural background of your family.
19. Make me laugh...
20. Make me feel...
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30. An opportunity to bring young culture
into the classroom

32. Personal Blog
http://exuc.wordpress.com/
Víctor González