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A comic strip that the author has created. Why Comics?  Comics are fun, easy, and engaging. They normally come with graphics, colorful images, various non-verbal cues (e.g., a facial expression), and speech lines made by the cartoon characters, all of which may make the input not only fun, but also comprehensible. Why MarvelKids? The MarvelKids site has a menu for "Creating your own comics." Creating your own comics can make you effectively be engaged in the activity. Therefore, the MarvelKids website ( http://marvelkids.marvel.com/ ) should be one of the websites that you may want to utilize to facilitate your students' higher-order thinking by leading them to be engaged in the activity and letting them create their own pieces of art. Simple, yet High-quality All you need to do is: (1) go to this link -> http://marvel.com/games/play/34/create_your_own_comic and, (2) click "Create your own comic."  Then, you can cho...

Ice Breaking for the 1st Class Ice breaking is must-do task for teachers for the very first class. There are abundant techniques to break the ice such as interviewing each other, doing a game to remember names, and any collaborating activities. Avatar can Break the Ice Creating an Avatar can be an idea to break the ice using the technology in the classroom. It is simple and quick to create an avatar using free websites (doppelme.com; zwinky.com; meez.com; secondlife.com\Avatar). How? As a teacher, you can give an assignment to students to: (1) c reate an avatar using one of the websites,  (2) describe the avatar's characteristics (teachers can give prompts - name, favorite food, etc.) (3) post it on a web-community site for your class. The avatar and its characteristics below is created by me. It took about 10 minutes to create.  This idea can make it easier for students to get to know each other by taking a look at their classmates' avatar's characterist...