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Online Cartooning with Adult Students Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Leecy Wise, 4CPDRC
Cartooning, through comic strips or other means, provides an ideal tool for engaging visual learners, those people who comprise huge numbers in our programs. They are the non-linguistic, non-mathematical types that come to us hoping for help. Through comics, we can put language and math into context so that learners can better perform in those areas.
Cartoons invite laughter – a huge, contributing ingredient in learning. Cartoons invite creativity – a huge, contributing ingredient in learning. Cartoons engage the senses, the emotions - huge, contributing ingredient in learning.
GED students can use cartoons to illustrate social, economic and political messages. ABE, Family Literacy, and ESL students can use cartoons to express language and solve problems.
The following resources will give you an introduction on how to create cartoons online.
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