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Pixton Demo at the Vancouver Film School

Yesterday I presented Pixton to another class-full - this time, to Art Direction students at the Vancouver Film School, one of the world's best schools for production, animation, and game design. This was the last class before graduation and we all had fun making Pixton comics. The students had plenty of excellent questions and suggestions. Many thanks to the instructor, Maria Kennedy, for inviting me to come in and talk!

~ Clive

Here is a funny comic made by one of the students:

Pixton Demo at the University of British Columbia

Last week we were contacted by Aaron, a Bachelor of Education student at the University of British Columbia. He and his classmates were doing a project on technology in the classroom, and they had selected Pixton as the subject for their presentation. Was I available to come in and talk about the website? Absolutely!

I happily went to UBC on Friday afternoon and showed the class of about 30 B.Ed. students how to use Pixton and Pixton for Schools, and we discussed the applications of comics in education. It was fun! Thanks to Aaron, Jens, Jordan, and Gabriel for giving me the opportunity to spread the good word.

~ Clive

Teachers Win Big with Pixton Shakespeare Project

Congratulations to the Doris Miller Junior High School teaching team for winning the Time Warner Cable's Spotlight on Education Award for their project called “Pixton with Shakespeare.”

The project made it all the way to the national finals for the National Spotlight award.

The team of Kelly Blanks, Melissa Dupré, Grace Mueller and Roxann Tull each received $125 and a plaque and will split a $500 team award, in addition to Miller receiving a $1,000 technology grant.

The Miller eighth grade Language Arts Department was studying “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, and the teachers wanted enrich the experience through the use of technology. They used Pixton to create a scene from "The Tempest”. Team member Mueller said, “Using their own interpretation of the scene, students developed the cartoon.”

We are very pleased that Pixton is making a difference in enriching students' experience of Shakespeare. Interactive web comics are a valuable tool in the classroom, to supplement conventional reading materials as well as to give students another way to express their ideas.

The success of this project will undoubtedly be an inspiration to others - again, well done!

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