I stumbled upon a very cool site tonight - ToonDoo, where you can use a very robust Flash tool to create panel cartoons from scratch. With a wide selection of backgrounds, characters, and scene accoutrements, there's a lot of fodder there for creative students to tell a story using comics. You can also upload images of your own and even draw objects from within the program (and save them for later use).
I spent about 30 minutes playing around with the program, and as I did, it reiterated the idea that creating media like this must be planned first - I didn't really create anything of quality until I had come up with the idea for the comic. Once I did, it only took me about 15 minutes to create the actual cartoon. Once created, you can embed the toons in blogs and websites, email them to others, post to Twitter or Facebook, or even download it to your computer. Very cool.
The only thing about it that bugged me - someone beat me to my user ID, so I had to go with techieteachr. Not really even a large learning curve, given about 30 minutes just to play.
Hope you like it - it's a humorous way to comment on some of the things I hear at work. Maybe it'll become a semi-regular feature!
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