Playing with Pixton!

This week we were told to look at some applications and websites for digital storytelling, which was something I was actually quite excited to do... I am a huge fan of all the "create your own *blank*" websites, and all others that offer a ton of creative options.  And suddenly, I stumbled upon Pixton. Never have I ran into a website as flexible as this for creating your own comics! It may be hard to incorporate into a music classroom, however, which is the one downfall of using it. Unless you decide to maybe assign them a composer or piece to research if you want to include music history in your classroom... But it definitely supports school and business use, as it even has categories for both of them, if you don't want to do it for fun.


Pros of this website:

- Multiple backgrounds to choose from
-Characters are posable
-Unlimited amount of comics to make
-various characters to use and incorporate.
-multiple comic forms to use as well.


Cons:

Time consuming if you don't know what you're doing.
Free version only gives you limited character customization options.
Limits to only a few comic styles.


If students find this site too difficult to use when working on an assignment, I think it would be important to incorporate other sites and options for the assignment to be completed. But all in all, it's great to use even for fun, and people have even started their own series on this site as well.

Just to see how things worked, I created a little comic about a little mishap I had in my clarinet lesson last week... Enjoy:

http://www.pixton.com/ca/comic/chc31anj

P.S. I HIGHLY recommend any of my non-music readers to listen to all three pieces listed within the comic. They're all fantastic orchestral works with some absolutely delicious clarinet solos!

Happy studying.... If that's even possible.. .>.>