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toondoo

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Overview:: Toondoo is a basic, free, online development tool for creating one, two, or three-pane comic strips. It is ideal for student use. There is a gallery of characters, backgrounds, and traits within Toonddo. Users can also create their own characters or upload images directly from your computer or a website. Toondoo uses a drag-and-drop system. Users can save and print their created comic strips.
Type of Material:: online development tool for comic strips
Recommended Uses:: Toondoo is designed specifically for the making and sharing of cartoons. Toondoo could be used to create assignments about any part of the curriculum that was being covered. Elementary through college students could use Toondoo to share dialogues, record discussions, highlight visual information, and feature key points from written work. Instructors could do the same.
Technical Requirements:: Toondoo is a web-based application. Computers need to have Internet connectivity and the ability to handle Flash.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: Toondoo can help users communicate ideas creatively, learn about a concept, educate others about content, and share information visually and/or in text. Toondoo is also fun to use. Toondo offers a fun way to facilitate artistic creativity for those students who do not have a talent to draw.
Target Student Population:: Elementary students through adults
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: None.

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Strengths:: The set up of ToonDoo is intuitive, especially if you start with "Create Your Own" which what students want to do. There are galleries of characters, backgrounds, voice bubbles, and more available for immediate use and creative exploration. Characters can also be created within ToonDoo and images can be uploaded from a computer. ToonDoos can be created in any language.Comics can be one, two, or three-panes long. Or for longer stories, choose to make a ToonBook. Finished ToonDoos can be shared publicly or privately online.
Concerns:: None.

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Strengths:: The immediate engagement of this tool will have students focused on sharing concepts, content, processes, and procedures from any curriculum. A range of assignments could be created by instructors for individual students or pairs. Presentations by students could feature ToonDoo. The strength of ToonDoo is that by its design and use, it can be readily integrated into a wide range of K-university curriculum and pedagogy by students and/or instructors.
Concerns:: None.

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Strengths:: There is an education-only area for teachers and students. Requires registration/login (No email needed.) Completed ToonDoo comics or ToonBooks can be embedded on other websites and shared by URL. Or they can simply be printed on paper. There is a ToonDoo wiki that has a FAQ section for any questions that might arise.
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Other Issues and Comments:: More of recommendation than a concern: K-12 educators may not want to have their students access the links to the "popular" ToonDoos that are available to the public since there is a wide interpretation of what is "funny." The public galleries are unmoderated content. There are social features that include comments, ratings by others, and "friends."
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