Thought Kandi

 Whenever podcasts come up I think of the first time I ever heard of them. It was an episode of the teen drama One Tree Hill and one of the characters had a podcast on the show. I had to do a little research because it has been years since I have seen the show but I remember thinking something along the lines of "I will never be cool enough to have a podcast." This wasn't a wistful thought but simply an observation of the difference between my real life and a television drama.  I guess I have to eat those words that only ever existed in my thoughts. As you might imagine, I have never thought of myself as someone that had something new to offer through the world of podcasts, or blogs either for that matter! They say necessity is the mother of invention, well I haven't invented anything but I can say I doubt I would have ever had either a podcast or a blog if not for graduate school assignments requiring me to do so. When I am trying something I don't imagine using ...

  I wish I had known about these resources just a few short days earlier! I recently had my students create storyboards, inspired by my increasing knowledge of graphic novels. I enjoy seeing their work on paper but there are many students that really need technological help when it comes to creative products. Now I know about three free online resources to help create comics and cartoons and I will definitely be working in a repeat project very soon with this option added, I can't wait to see what the kids come up with! I started with FotoJet. I had an idea in mind of what I wanted to create but as I looked over the template options I was inspired to go a completely different direction. I found FotoJet easy to use and fairly quick since I chose to simply upload some pictures and edit the words in the conversation bubbles that were already there. To be honest, I really only saw that I needed to upload photos and then I was inspired and I did not experiment much with this one to see ...