Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Need A Laugh?

Looking for cartoons on the Internet to clip into your multimedia work, check out We Blog Cartoons by Dave Walker, who invites views to grab his artwork and use it freely. Here's a sample.
Let us know if you find one you like.

5 comments:

Lilly said...

I like the idea of adding illustrations in instruction. In past classes I have been in many teachers have used comic strips or a funny illustration to begin a lesson. I found that it was effective in hooking my interest into the lesson and brought a humorous charm to the topic presented in class. In fact, I have been in search of such comics/illustrations myself, but have not found a promising forum for comics or funny pictures related to topics in algebra and pre algebra. The forum created is great on this website, but I was unsuccessful in finding pictures that related to anything that I am doing in the classroom. Please let me know if I have missed something on the site. The pictures I did find were entertaining, but not did not apply to middle school math.

Lilly said...

I like the idea of adding illustrations in instruction. In past classes I have been in many teachers have used comic strips or a funny illustration to begin a lesson. I found that it was effective in hooking my interest into the lesson and brought a humorous charm to the topic presented in class. In fact, I have been in search of such comics/illustrations myself, but have not found a promising forum for comics or funny pictures related to topics in algebra and pre algebra. The forum created is great on this website, but I was unsuccessful in finding pictures that related to anything that I am doing in the classroom. Please let me know if I have missed something on the site. The pictures I did find were entertaining, but not did not apply to middle school math.

Liz R. said...

I agree Lilly. I have used Spanish cartoons in past lessons as hooks to initiate a lesson. I also did not find anything that related to my content area, but I did find that I could use a few of them as an initiation to a lesson that I conduct in the computer lab as an interdisciplinary approach with how we and the students may feel when using technology. I especially liked the cartoon called Dave's mountain. It captures how I feel about the fast changing pace of technology and how this pace makes me feel that I will never be able to reach the mountain peak, because once I learn a program a new version comes out, and I feel like I never have a chance to master anything. It feels good to use humor to help calm student and teacher anxiety.

Meg said...

I agree with Lilly 100% that cartoons are an effective way of hooking students into a lesson. I had science classes as an undergrad which my teacher would put cartoons throughout the powerpoint. The jokes were wicked lame but it totally helped me remember the content. My personal favorite from the ones posted was the facebook one about friends, totally cute :)

Kim G said...

As Lilly, Liz and Meg pointed out, I think cartoons can be an effective way to hook learners and initiate learning. I clearly remember classes, in high school, grad and undergrad where my teachers used cartoons. The cartoons were subject appropriate, engaging and funny. I remember the cartoons and the content material. I also liked the use of cartoon on teacher's websites. I reviewed a math teacher's site that had excellent cartoons. I would love to find fitting cartoons to use with elementary students but so much simply "goes over their heads". As far as the cartoons on this site right now, I could connect to a few but especially the email one...I am having email difficulties with my work email right now where replies aren't reaching me.

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