BITSTRIPS comic maker

Making a comic strip may be a very attractive a activity for ESL learners of all levels. (Read about "comic strips" in Wikipedia)

There are different tools to make comic strips but this post will be devoted to Bitstrips- an online tool

Advantages:

• Bitstrips is free
• Registration is optional
• You can log in with your Facebook account
• Students can create comics and their own characters
• Students create dialogues using vocabulary they know
• Bitstrips stimulates imagination and creativity because everything, from characters to complex backgrounds, is customizable.
• Sharing: Bitstrips is embeddable on blogs and wikis !

Disadvantages:

• Students may spend too much time designing their comics, so it is advisable to work on the script before sitting them in front of the PC.
• Characters can only be human
• Bitstrips is suitable for tweens with some tech skills.

Possible Activity:

Creating Story boards. After watching a movie in your class, you can even have your students hand draw a storyboard of the movie's major plot events (a summary) and then turn that storyboard into a comic strip using Bitstrips.

Possible Project Plan 
Prof. María Clara Bouvier's contribution
Examples:

• List of comic creators
• Alternative comic maker for kids(not embeddble but printable)