Digital Story Writing

For my assignment this week I chose to experiment with creating a comic strip.  I believe that this technology would be very useful when reading a novel where students could base their comic off of important scenes from the novel, re-create the scenes to fit modern day, rewriting the ending...the possibilities are endless. If you were teaching a unit on short stories, instead of writing a short story, you could have them experiment with writing a comic strip including the elements of a short story.  I chose to do my comic strip using scene selections from The Giver by Lois Lowry.  Here it is: