Here you can enter your students names and then invent a class code. The students then log in with the code and find their names. This enables you to see what they are working on at any time. Students love this site as they will spend hours creating different avatars for their strips. It is best to dedicate a period to creating avatars as you will not be able to keep their attention for long if you don't.
It is a very user friendly site and has lots of different things that I can show you but it would make for a really long blog post. Instead, I will leave you with a comic that I made for my computers class in the hopes that you gain some ideas as to what you can do with this amazing web 2.0 tool!
Also as a point of interest, my students love incorporating this comic in their presentations as it explains the idea in a visual way. It also helps those shy students get their point across when in front of the class. I also find that girls love this just as much as boys. Students in my class always have the variety to present and most times I have at least one student/group using a bitstrip.
Another positive atribute with the bitstripsforschools account is that only your class can see the comic when it is published. Students may also save it as a document and print or embed it in a blog to use it (as I did here).
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