eBook Examples
Comic Life used with Open Court Reading Program
The Assignment
Where: These were created in Mathew Needleman's workshop, "Closing the Digital Divide: Integrating Technology in the Open Court Curriculum" at the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
What: These are what we call eBooks, created by teachers to align with Open Court Curriculum. In a classroom setting these would be created by students.
How: These were created using Comic Life which is now available very inexpensively for PC and Macintosh. Comic Life allows you to very easily create Comic Books using your digital photos.
Why: The use of photos and drawings and the comic book format is engaging for students and at the same time provides opportunity for higher level thinking as you'll see when you view the examples. The work done on these eBooks can easily translate to the Concept/Question Board and unit writing.
Next steps: Remember, these were created by teachers. However, the goal of integrating technology is to empower students by handing over new technology to them. These are intended to be projects completed by students later in your classrooms.
Post your comments/questions: Blog Entry about eBooks
General Program Components
- Modeling for Students How to Come Up With an Idea for Writing by Jill Kalbrosky
Kindergarten
- Finding Friends by Bo Kyoung Choi
- Friendship: Spanish | English by Linda Brady
- Shadows by Mayra Mata
- Shadows by Mathew Needleman
- Where's Boomer? A Virtual Search video project using Comic Life by Mathew Needleman
First Grade
- Look Who's Reading by Wendy Ron
- Look Who's Readingby Janice Kunihiro
- Our Neighborhood at Work by Debbie Galindo
Second Grade
Kindergarten/Third Grade
- Friendship by Tammy Riddle
- Friendship by Katy Nipper
- Friendship: Spanish | English by Linda Brady
- Finding Friends by Bo Kyoung Choi
Fourth Grade
- Mae Jemison by Connie Ordway
- Risks and Consequences by James Whalen
Fifth Grade
- Cooperation and Competition by Hina Yousufzai
- Heritage Unit Famliy History by Maria Raspet
- Heritage Unit Family History 2 by Greg Raspet
- Heavenly Zoo Page 1 | Page 2 by Dalila Lopez
- American Revolution: Tory or Revolutionary? Page 1 | Page 2 by David Kotkosky
- What Tradition Do You Want to Pass On? Game Directions | Page 1 | Page 2 by Francie Kugelman
Also See
- Where's Boomer? A Virtual Search by Mathew Needleman
this is a film made using Comic Life, Final Cut Pro, and Live Type
- Jonathan Felix uses eBooks extensively in his third grade Open Court classroom
see his site, Mind Troopers.com, here
- Post your comments/questions here: Blog Entry about eBooks
