Kids create one million educational comics with Bitstrips

Jesse Brown sez, "Boing Boing readers may remember me guest-posting about Bitstrips for Schools, the educational comic-making site which launched in Ontario classrooms this past September. Well, in six months, kids in this province have created ONE MILLION educational comic strips. Here's #1,000,000, made by by Sam B of Angela Youmans' Grade 8 English class. It's great dramatization of Laura Secord's historic journey (spelling error aside)."

THE ONE MILLIONTH BITSTRIP created by Ontario students! (Thanks, Jesse!)

Previously:

BitStrips: comics-creation for everyone - Boing Boing

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Was the strip intentionally a sarcastic interpretation showing the students thought it was a stupid assignment? I mean, these were grade 8 students, not third-graders or something.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Those kids been on your lawn again, eh?
joeposts

And that’s why we have a Laura Secord chocolate shop in every mall now. To remind us of the filthy American hoard clamoring to invade and steal our overpriced ice cream and truffles.

[looks around with shifty eyes]

I’m on to you, Merica.
- EvilSpirit
  
  Technically, we filthy Americans are a “horde.”
  
  Except to collectors, of course.
  - joeposts
    
    Damn.. actually, I mean, I was describing Americans as a collection of valuable artifacts.
Rich Keller

Sam B’s strip reminds me of an early Questionable Content strip. He just left out the indie rock references.