Pixton

What is it? 

Pixton is a social community where anyone can easily create, share, re-mix and publish their comic strip stories with people around the globe. 

There are three versions Pixton for Fun (free), Pixton for School and Pixton for Business.

Tutorial

Application in Class

Pixton is a great tool to engage students through comics. Teachers can introduce it to their students and let them create their own comics and share their creations with each other. 

The comic is a powerful form of visual communication, and when placed in an interactive teaching and learning environment, becomes an invaluable tool for the EFL classroom. This program motivates a wide variety of EFL students because it allows for creativity, it is interactive, and it can be funny. 

The free version of Pixton can be integrated in English classes in a variety of ways:

• Create a traditional scene or event from an English speaking country.

• Create a virtual tour of the setting, country or historical places.

• Create a fictional story about a historical event that relates to the study of the literature.

• Jigsaw a larger unit of study into smaller sections and have groups create comics to teach their section to the class.

• Share and exchange comics with other students in order to comment and receive comments on their creations.

• Connect grammar and reading skills. Students can find grammatical errors in a fun way!

• Research for example, a political issue from the past or current. Then they can create a political cartoon that represents to that era.

• Use the information students had collected from the Internet for the class debate, they can create a comic in which the present one argument for and one argument against the idea of a particular subject. 

• Order a sequence of events using words and phrases.

• Draw a sequence of  pictures to show ideas for a narrative.

• Create a comic where teenagers talk about the kind of diet they should follow when they do sports.

• Use a comic as an example, re-mix that comic and add dialogue using appropiate adjectives, nouns or verbs.

• Create a comic strip based on different chapters of a novel. 

• Reinforce the English vocabulary and grammar through the associative power of words and images.

• Write a joke or an autobiography.

My Example:

Discussion

1.         Have you ever used Pixton before?

2.         In what ways could you use Pixton in the classroom?

Post a comment below with your ideas. Thanks!