The good news is that Pixton has videos that are only about 30 seconds long that are How To videos. There are so many features including facial expressions and posing of your characters that students can get really bogged down in choosing just the right positioning. The learning curve with Pixton comes when you actually go to create the comic. After the unit this year, I discovered Storyboard That. I used Pixton and had pretty good success with it. She was using it with her kids and they were able to focus more on what the point of this unit was- depicting The Hero's Journey and visualizing. Since my district's push is with technology, a teacher friend of mine introduced me to Pixton. Oh the complaints! "This isn't an art class!" "I'm not a good drawer!" Even though I reassured them that the content of what they wrote was more important than the quality of their pictures. When I first started teaching this unit a few years ago, my students drew their own graphic novels. Early in the school year, my students read Lois Lowry's The Giver and created a graphic novel depicting The Hero's Journey.
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