Posted by Amanda Kenuam on Fri, May 14, 2010
ToonDoo is an exciting, comic-creating tool and more from Jambav, a site dedicated to providing online games of educational value for kids of all abilities.
The site provides many creative and engaging tools for the classroom including a toondoo comic maker, a tratr avatar creator, a bookmark creator, the imaginer for photo editing, and a doodler for creating online art. Digital storytelling through the creation of comics is easy. Students simply drag, drop, or click to create comics that express their feelings, opinions, creativity, or learning.
The comics can be used by to apply their learning, to inspire creative writing, organize literary elements, analyze character traits, to build vocabulary, and much more. The possibilities are limitless. You can even challenge your students to get involved in a ToonDoo contest to stretch their creative side. Be sure to scroll through the galleries on the homepage to gather more ideas.
Teachers can also use these web 2.0 tools to create picture problems, to build engaging lessons on interactive whiteboards, to create flowcharts as a positive reinforcement tool. Teachers and students can even embed real life photos to make the comics more meaningful and relevant.
There is also a ToonDoo Spaces feature for a small cost (as low as ten cents per user per month) that allows you to create a comic-based social network for your classroom. Teachers can set up a private virtual ToonDoo space to publish, share and discuss comic strips with group memebers in a secure and private environment. Teachers can get alerts, filter content, and set restrictions.
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