Comic Life Creation - Take Two

After much ado, here is my latest attempt at Comic Life:

I feel this is definitely an improvement on attempt #1, so I think I am finding my groove with this program.  My improvements are mostly due to discovering some of these features:

• The style button that edits your pictures – this allows you to change pictures to appear more “comic-like”, although some of them make the pictures unrecognizable
•  The caption boxes attached to the pictures – this matches my image of a comic layout 
• The ability to change the colour of fill and fonts in the thought/speech bubbles – I originally thought we were stuck with the options presented in the style drop-down

This attempt makes me more confident that students will be able to create personalized and creative work that they can be proud of.  I think that time to “play” is crucial to understanding all that the program can do, so I will need to consider this when introducing it to a classroom.  Perhaps a guided activity and some free “play time” would be a better first step than expecting them to simply log on and create a masterpiece!

My other goal was to attempt to add thinglinks to this picture to make it interactive.  I have added the plugin to my blog, but have not figured out how to get the “edit” option to appear on my images.  I will continue to play with this in my free time (ah hahaha!) and perhaps I will be able to present a “new and improved” poster in the future!