This is just a quick post to share a new tool I recently used to give students speaking assessments. It’s called Superhero Comic Book Maker HD. I wanted students to collaborate on the iPads to demonstrate their knowledge of how to ask and answer basic questions in French. I was hoping to use the Sock Puppets app, but it proved to be too buggy. After Tweeting a request for alternatives, technology guru Joe Dale suggested the Superhero Comic Book Maker app. I gave it a try and it proved to be easy to use and kid-friendly. Students were to, with a partner, choose a background and two characters, then record a short dialogue. In order to make the characters’ mouths move you have to keep tapping the character while you speak. My colleague Sarah lent us her mini recording studios so students could create higher quality, easier to understand audio.
The only major downside with this app is that there’s no way to export what you’ve created, so in order to grade them, I had to go on each individual iPad and look at them. Any projects I wanted to publish on my blog I had to AirDrop to my phone and then upload from there. So it’s a bit tedious. Here are some of the results:
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