Digital Superheroes, As Easy as 1-2-3 to Infinity!
Presenter: Jeff Brain
Session Website: http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=17424
View the PowerPoint, lessons, documents, templates, instructions, tips and more!
View the PowerPoint, lessons, documents, templates, instructions, tips and more!
Watch the session here! (link not up yet)
You can engage and inspire students by using superheroes as a vehicle for learning! Teach basic writing skills, sophisticated short story form, math, logic, and science!
Use http://www.gimp.org/, a free site that functions similarly to Photoshop and photos to create
- Integrate digital imaging, storytelling and citizenship
- Engage, not enrage
- Get lesson ideas
- Cross curriculum ideas
- Authentic Assessment
- Integrate digital imaging, storytelling and citizenship
- Digital life: www.commonsensemedia.org/educators
- Tools
- Photoshop
- Gimp - free program like Photoshop
- Set the stage and get them engaged
- Who are the "villains"?
- hackers
- viruses
- Create character traits
- Main motivation
- character trait
- character trait
- character trait
- cte.jhu.edu - search "character traits
- Engage, not enrage
- Get lesson ideas
- Creation of the story
- As creating a superhero
- character sheet
- character trait diamond
- levels of strength, dexterity, etc (see Dungeons and Dragons traits)
- Use dice to allocate super powers
- Search "d20 skills"
- Methods
- 1: allocate 80 points
- 2: roll 24d6
- "Level Up"
- Create Level Rules
- each level costs points
- level 1=1 point
- level 2= 3points (1+2)
- level 3=6 points (1+2+3)
- Need an origin story - create an outline first
- discuss with others (formative assessment)
- peer assessment - could grade, but really just fleshing out
- Create a Supervillian
- One can hide all of his messages in the Gilgamesh Epic
- make up some scenarios and let the students run with them
- you can have the same villains in every
- Create the images
- use live models - take pictures of each other making hero poses, edit using http://www.gimp.org/
- Create a blank layer on top of the picture, and draw on that
- protect the picture so that if you mess up, you can start again
- Trace the photo and enhance as you wish
- bigger biceps, sharper chin, etc.
- if you "hide" the bottom layer, you will see your drawing
- color, shade
- Storyboard
- Cross curriculum ideas
- English: can get students to use sophisticated plot points (think short story form) and writing techniques by having them create superheroes
- English: short story form - writing
- Science: balance of elements, what logically works together
- Internet Safety: create a story about heroes and villains on the web
- Authentic Assessment
- Find information @
- http://web.mac.com/jeffbrain/Mister_Brain/Mister_Brain.html
- all of the templates, lessons, and handouts can be found here, or at the main site listed at the top of this post
- this site is Jeff Brain’s class website, and contains more than just information on superhero assignment creation
- Superhero origin stories: http://www.superherodb.com/
- Sites
- A site that functions similarly to Photoshop, but free: http://www.gimp.org/
- Reality is Broken - about peer assessment and gaming http://www.janemcgonigal.com/
- Marvel Comics has a book of just the origin stories to
- Dynamic Anatomy
- Alex Ross - Superman
- How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
- Burne Hogarth - Dynamic Anatomy
- Comic life - paid comic creation software
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