Witty Comics a Cool Tool Review #2

The tool I chose for this week is Witty Comics. Witty Comics, as you may have guessed, is a comic strip building website. It allows you to customize each frame with different backgrounds, people, and speech and thought bubbles. From the get go I felt like this tool would be perfect for foreign language classes. In fact, in about 5 minutes I made a comic illustrating a man finding a coffee shop and ordering coffee. While it may have other uses in the classroom such as making a Powerpoint presentation more entertaining or perhaps illustrating an idea in a packet of work, I feel it is most useful in a foreign language dialogue situation. It could be a blended learning assignment for the student to go on and create a comic or two using key vocabulary from that week's classes.

It is extremely easy to use. The only current drawback I see is that, even though I followed the sign up instructions, it has not let me login to actually view the website from a member standpoint. Unfortunately, if this is a permanent bug and not just a user error, it could limit the application's use in a classroom as there is no way for me to save or share my comic slides.

Witty Comics can be found here.