Thursday, April 29, 2010

Free Web Comic Creator - Chogger

I just stumbled upon Chogger.com.  This is a free Web Comic Strip Creator that only takes a few minutes to master.  In the past, we have used stripgenerator.com to create comic "renditions" of Edgar Allan Poe poems/stories in the 11th grade English classes in our district.  The problem we ran into was that Stripgenerator limits the amount of space that can be use for each comic.  So, some students had to make three or four seperate comics to retell one story.  One positive thing about Stripgenerator is that they had tons of pre-made objects that you can use.  While Chogger does not have the pre-fab objects and images, you can upload your own images as well as draw your own objects.  Also, Chogger allows to add more cells as well as more rows of cells.  So, you can make your comic larger if you need to.  I am seriously considering using Chogger in place of Stripgenerator for the Poe activity next school year.  The only thing I would like to see added is the ability to embed the comics after they are finish.  If there was a way to this, I missed it.  Below is a screenshot of a comic I made in less than 5 minutes.  Of course, given more time, I could fix up Bill and take better pictures.  But, those familiar with digital storytelling know that it is about the quality of the story and not always able the appearance. Creating a Chogger account only took about 30 seconds.

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