Making History

Last year in history 8, Margaret and I did an assignment for the students to articulate the views of the Patriots and the Loylists at specific points in the revolution using photos I took in Colonial Williamsburg and a fun comic making program called Comic Life.  But there were two problems.  Not everyone had Comic Life, so all work had to happen in class, and the resulting files were a bit difficult to deal with.  So I thought I would try out some of the free captioning services to see what the web 2.0 options are like for this assignment.

I was not too impressed with Bubblesnaps, because it produced a flash annimation, so I could not see how to integrate it easily into Moodle.  I might keep trying, but it also requires registration to save the images for more than 10 days, so that might also be a problem.

This is one I made in Bubblecaption.com.  It was easy to make, but the non-buble text options seem really limited (hard to put in titles, dates, etc. and make them look good).

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