Stick with it

Three weeks ago when I first used Bitstrips comic builder in the classroom, I hit a few snags. Things weren't working right, the program wouldn't save some of the students' work, we couldn't print, the images froze....Today, after two or three weeks of persisting, the process was much smoother. I had the projector hooked up to the classroom computer. The students clicked on their own work and presented their comic strips audio-visually. It was gratifying to see them using their language skills using this comical,  interactive medium. I witnessed some artistic skills I would otherwise have not seen. Some students intuitively organized space, objects and colour in ways that added significantly to the communicative impact of the language. Also, some students were very successful in bringing out humour -a challenge for second language learners!