A Proposed Model for Developing the Educational Web Comics and their Impact Study on achievement and skill performance of Educational technology department students

Abstract:
In this study, Comics is visual medium used to express educational ideas in computer upgrade and maintenance course for students of the First year, in educational technology department, in Faculty of Specific Education in Port Said – Egypt, via images with text or visual information. This type of comics is not photo Comics, it‘s a graphic Comics, the author use drawing by 3D studio max technology; such as: modeling, texture, lights, camera, animation and render to output this images.
The author distinguishes between two types in this study. Visual Comics and Web Comics. With Group 1, the author use Web Comic, it is published via the Internet, and the internet makes it Hyper, large size, it depends on reading and not viewing like Visual Comics. With Group 2, the author use Visual Comics, it is an interactive comic presentation, used Graphic images with mixed multimedia tools, such as text, sound, animation and interactive.
To investigate the study objectives, the author prepared some tools:
 Achievement test
 skill performance checklist
 Educational Web-comics page
 graphical Visual Comics based on web ―presentation‖
 graphical Hyper Comics based on web ―reading‖
The results showed that:
 There are differences with statistical significance at level (0.05) in the experimental groups students score average at the achievement tests of the targeted skills, due to main effects of educational comics styles (Web Comics - Visual Comics), in favor of the Visual Comics.
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 There are differences with statistical significance at level (0.05) in the experimental groups students score average at the skill performance checklist of the targeted skills, due to main effects of educational comics styles (Web Comics - Visual Comics), in favor of the Visual Comics.
According to the results, the author recommends:
 Use presentation in Visual Comics when we target the achievement objectives or the performance skill objectives.
 Mixing and using the suggested educational Comics styles, reading in Web Comics and presentation in Visual Comics, accomplishes the best educational results and encourages students to learn.
 Don‘t ignore the other styles that didn't use in this study like (printed Photo Comics, Hyperlink Photo Comics, Photo Visual Comics, interactive Photo Comics) and the author recommend that use this styles in other study for known its effects.