Oct

26

Cartoons making online

Filed Under Art, English, General, Social Studies 

Couresty of the K-12 Online Conference, I discovered two really cool cartoon making sites.

The Comic Creator at ReadWriteThink is a neat little tool that creates black and white line drawings in anywhere from one to six panels. It works easily with a drag and drop system. It doesn’t require registration, which is nice, but it also doesn’t let you export your cartoon as anything other than a printed copy. That’ s right, you can’t save it as a jpeg, gif, bmp, or whatever. To me, that’s a serious drawback.

Toondoo, while it has a weirder name, is a superior site. You need to register for it (and provide an e-mail address which might be an issue if you use this with students) but the payoff is that you can save your cartoons, export them, embed them in your website, or whatever you want. That makes your ‘toons far more useful. Additionally, Toondoo offers more characters for you to use in your cartoons, more backgrounds to put behind your characters, and more objects for your characters to manipulate. You can even create your own characters (and save them for later use) by mixing and matching face parts and bodies from a stock collection Toondoo provides.

Either of these sites provide a neat way to make quick cartoons about politics, history, literature, or whatever you want your students to show they understand. Both sites work well for their purpose, but, for me, I think Toodoo is the superior choice.

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