Comic+Tools

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Comic Tools
Create your own comic strips or cartoons using imported media or available images. Some require the ability to sketch for some of these, and these are generally shorter pieces, and were much more of a challenge to fit a story into.

In most other cases users can select backgrounds, characters and import their own images in order to tell a DIGITAL STORY.

[|Read, Write, Think] – has a number of comic based activities and has an article discussing the benefits of the comic form (if you haven’t explored Read Write Think yet this is an amazing resource) [|Eek! Comics in the Classroom!] – an article from Education World [|Comics in the classroom: 100 Tips, Tools and Resources for Teachers] – a very useful blog post [|Cartoons and Comic Life]- a blog post containing video interviews with teachers about how they are using comics effectively (and Comic Life) at secondary level.

23. gnomz
[] This is a fairly low level tool that will not create any visual masterpieces, but there is an interesting challenge in trying to compose with a limited tool set. It creates those pixel flat icon like figures. You create a cartoon avatar, and you pull from a library of others, and enter their speech or thought bubbles, as well as select backgrounds. The site is a bit challenging to figure out since it is in French, but click the flag in the top right to toggle the site to English.
 * [|Dominoe] (as best as I could with limited art!)
 * [|Aren't They Just Diaries] - my own comic about blogs
 * header images for Leigh Blackall's Blended Learning wiki
 * [|Teaching Hacks example]
 * D'Arcy Norman's [|teacher using wiki comic]
 * //Note most of the content on this site is juvenile or inappropriate. Link at your own risk.//

24. ComicsSketch
[] A tool for people who can actually draw! Create all content via pen and color tools.
 * [|Dominoe]
 * [|Time for Tea!] by TrevUK
 * [|The Seed] by te3de3

25. Toondoo
[|http://www.toondo.com] Create your own 1, 2, or 3 panel cartoons using a library of cartoons, text bubbles. Images can be uploaded and manipulated with simple tools. Created "doos" can be combined into "ToonBooks", embedded in blogs, etc. A lot of versatility.
 * [|Dominoe] (embedded version)
 * [|Maths problem]
 * [|Maths (solving the two brackets)]
 * [|Hang On!] by Micadz
 * [|The Spambot!] by Danayel

26. Kerpoof
[] A fun to use cartoon tools with stock shapes and character bubbles. No import of media, no audio, no ability to create links or embed code.
 * [|Dominoe] (screen shots loaded into a flickr set, only way to get content out!)

27. Bubblr
[] Pick flickr photos by tag or user name and put on a timeline, overlay bubbles with text.
 * [|Dominoe] (embedded version)
 * [|Nelson Mandela]
 * [|Elephants]
 * [|Beth's Birthday Card]

28. Comiqs
[] Turn photos, "doodles", and text into a multipane comic strip. Import photos from flickr or upload from desktop. Add bubbles, text.
 * [|Dominoe] (embedded version)
 * [|Aeneas Leaving Dido And Searching For New Homeland] and [|Finding Italy] from Classics1
 * [|The Recruiting Life]
 * [|A Day in the Life of a Squirrel]

29. PikiStrips
[] Make comic strips from your own photos using standard sets of frames. Apply PhotoShop like effects to images. Add speech bubbles and other "goodies" (not that 90% of the gallery seem to be dating oriented??)
 * [|Dominoe] (embedded version)
 * [|Science experiment]
 * [|History of Basketball]
 * [|The Sniperoo Moment]
 * [|The Wedding]