What is bitstrips?

It´s an online comic strip that you can create and run as a series. You can even design your own avatar there. It is easy and fun to use!

Some advantages and disadvantages of bitstrips

Advantages:
- It motivates students;
- It improves children's creative working skills;
- Children are encouraged to express their creativity;
- It grabs the attention of reluctant readers;
- ...

Disadvantages:
- Students need computer access;
- Limited range of facial expressions;
- Characters can only be human;

Aims of Bitstrips

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Bitstrips:Home screen

The importance of motivation

Bistrips: teacher

The history of comic strips

"A comic strip is a drawing or sequence of drawings that tells a story. Written and drawn by a comics artist, such strips are published on a recurring basis (usually daily or weekly) in newspapers and on the internet.

In the UK and the rest of Europe they are also serialized in comic magazines, with a strip's story sometimes continuing over three pages or more. Comic strips have also appeared in US magazines such as Boys' Life.

Storytelling using pictures has existed at least since the ancient Egyptians, and examples exist in 19th century Germany and England. The American comic strip developed this format into the 20th century. It introduced such devices as the word balloon for speech, the hat flying off to indicate surprise, and specific typographical symbols to represent cursing. The first comic books were anthologies of newspaper comic strips.

Newspaper comic strips are comic strips that are first published in newspapers, instead of, for example, on the web, or in comic books or magazines. The first newspaper comic strips appeared in America in the early years of the twentieth century. The Yellow Kid is usually credited as being the very first newspaper comic strip, but the artform, mixing words and pictures, evolved gradually, and there are many examples of proto-comic strips. Newspaper comic strips are divided into daily strips and Sunday strips. Most newspaper comic strips are syndicated; that is, a syndicate hires people to write and draw the strip, and then distributes the strip to many newspapers for a fee. A few newspaper strips are exclusive to one newspaper. For example The Louisiana Purchase by John Chase ran only in the New Orleans Times Picayune.

A daily strip is a newspaper comic strip that appears in newspapers Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip which appears on Sunday. Daily strips are usually in black and white, though a few newspapers, beginning in the later part of the twentieth century, published them in color. The major formats are strips, which are wider than they are tall, and panels, which are square, circular, or taller than they are wide.

In America, the great popularity of comics sprang from the newspaper war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. The Little Bears was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892; Mutt and Jeff was the first successful daily comic strip, first appearing in 1907."

Disponível em: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_strip. Acesso em: 03 mar. 2008.