The life and times of MET student

Check out my story below, about a furry pest who eventually grows on me.

To tell my educational story, I spent a lot of time browsing through the various tools outlined in “50 Ways to Tell a Story”. After much debate, I decided that I would use a tool to create a comic of my story, because I thought it would be the most interesting and relevant for my students, many of whom read graphic novels and comics. In using this tool, I was able to use pictures, dialogue, and narrative to tell my story. This made it easy to express specific characters’ points of view, as well as my own point of view as narrator. The pictures helped to quickly and effectively set the mood for each scene in the story.

If I were to use such a tool in my own teaching to produce materials for my students, I would use it as an example in our personal storytelling unit, or as an example of a different way to provide information in Science and Social Studies, (ie. the journey of a piece of food through your body, or the story of pioneers settling in Canada). Students could easily access this online comic authoring tool, PikiStrips. I can imagine that my students would find such an authoring tool exciting to use, and I would expect that it would also inspire them to be creative with both visuals and dialogue. I think that it would be an engaging learning experience for both of us!