Comics Generators and Literacy: Edtech and Nontech Insights from Bill Zimmerman

"By encouraging their students to create comic strips, teachers accomplish important goals: they prepare their students for being able to appreciate art more, to gain visual literacy."

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Hope you enjoyed the conversation with Chris Wilson. In fact, by way of introduction to today’s expert in comics creation tools, you can read Mr. Wilson’s piece on the benefits of the site that my current interview subject founded. One of the true pioneers in the field, Bill Zimmerman launched  MakeBeliefsComix.com only a few years ago, and now it’s in use in countless classrooms, libraries, and technology labs throughout the world. Not content simply to provide one of the premier “comics generators” available, Zimmerman and Make Beliefs are constantly coming out with new, highly topical templates as well as free printables (now numbering 350!) that allow educators to help kids write comics without a computer in sight. Here’s an example of one of these printables:

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