Animoto lets you easily select photos and video clips from Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram and others. And you can always upload from your computer. Then add your own words to tell your story.
According to their website, “ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool from Jambav, a fun site for kids. Jambav is devoted to creating a unique array of free and customizable online games of educational value for children of all abilities.”
ToonDoo is fast, easy way to create cartoons. There are a number of functions that allow you to create, personalize, and publish your cartoons.
Why should I use cartoons in class?
Illustrations have a number of possible benefits to learning. Some concepts, especially in the sciences, can be difficult for students understand textually, but are better communicated in pictures. Illustrations can be used to get students attention and increase their emotional interest in a topic. Other illustrations can be used to summarize or rephrase information and help students build their framework of understanding.
There are even more benefits to be gained by students creating their own cartoons in class.
By creating cartoons, students:
Interpret a concept from verbal/textual form (provided by teacher) to visual form (created in ToonDoo)
Organize science concept to fit a limited-panel representation
Create their own new, unique representation of an idea
Appreciate the difficult scientists encounter when trying to communicate their ideas to others
