http://www.toondoo.com/ToonDoo is an open source cartoon / comic strip maker. Students enjoy creating characters and developing a storyline for their cartoons.
Classroom uses - all subjects can use ToonDoo to define vocabulary words through humor, foreign language can target placement of verbs and prepositions within the language or create characters that converse in the language of the class, safety cartoons in science classes, identifying main themes in the literature in language arts, and in math, physics, and chemistry classes students can create a cartoon for multi-step problems, for history classes students could create their own political cartoons, timelines, or viewpoints/snapshots of specific dates in history
Getting Started with ToonDoo
Go to the website http://www.toondoo.com/
In the upper right-hand corner click 'Register'
Complete the username, password, & email ID
You will immediately receive validation on the screen.
Once you have become a 'ToonDude', login.
You will want your students to have the 'Safe Search" on because ToonDoo can have inappropriate content within its gallery.
This is found in the upper right-hand corner of the screen once you are logged in.To create a cartoon Click the 'ToonDoo Maker' Link.
ToonDoo will then load.
Choose your format (various sized single panes or multiple panes are available)
Begin by selecting options from the tool bar at the top including characters, props, backgrounds & text.
Additional Options are shown below - you can shrink, enlarge, flip, duplicate image, change the emotion and posture of the people
Examples
Math Vocabulary Term
Science Vocabulary Term
Safety Rule
