Toon Doo Is Cool For School

I have to work on my post titles!

This post is going to focus on a website that all teachers can utilize in his or her classroom immediately and it is very easy to use. The site is called “Toon Doo”. Toon Doo is a free open application that allows anyone to create a comic strip. All it takes to sign up is a username and password. Easy enough! And no spam e-mails!

Here is how you can get started on Toon Doo…

Here is an assignment that I assigned for my class for our initial reading of Hamlet.

Read Act 1 of Hamlet
1. Provide at least 5 passages (one for each scene, but you can use more than five).
2. Provide the Act, scene and line number in this format I, i, 1-10
3. Provide a brief summary (short paragraph) of why you chose that passage.
Take notes on the lines or passages you find important.

This was their homework and the next day we discussed and reflected on their first reading in class. Then I had the take their passages and translate them into a comic strip via Toon Doo. Here was my model that I showed them.

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I feel Toon Doo can be used in any classroom at any level and it is easy for students and teachers to create. Plus, it will give you something that you can print out and post on your bulletin board for back to school night or simply for your Administrators to see! Here are some more ideas for other disciplines:

Math and Physics – Create a Toon Doo for a three-step equation. You can use symbols and text and if you wish to make it flashy and creative you can have characters embedded as well. When you are finished, you can hang them around on a bulletin board or post on your class website.

Special Education – The possibilities are endless for your students! Have them create a Toon Doo simply for fun! Or you can give them a specific task to create a Toon Doo for, possibly a life skill task or conversation skills between two people. I’d be interested to hear feedback on what you used Toon Doo for!!!

History and Government – Like language arts, you can create a Toon Doo for a specific moment in History. Example: The signing of the Treaty of Paris.

Foreign Language – Have students create a conversation between two characters in the language you teach. Or you can create a conversation between two people in English and have the students translate into French, Spanish or German.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on May 4, 2009 at 9:45am

I will be in touch soon
Sounds great
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Murphy on May 4, 2009 at 10:24am

I'm interested.. Sending you an email

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Permalink Reply by C. Hutcheson on May 4, 2009 at 1:19pm

I'm interested, but also out in 3 months. Thanks for the educational version!
Clair

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Murphy on May 26, 2009 at 6:15am

I had a bit of trouble with the interface to start.. I hope to return to it before the summer.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Murphy on May 4, 2009 at 7:40pm

I had students create cartoons in Powerpoint when I was a Spanish teacher (my former life). Two versions for different situations. One is printed, 6 slides per page with call out bubbles etc. The other is animated with "record naration" voiceover component. In languages, to have both the voice and the callouts were beneficial. At minimum, they had a ton of fun creating that.

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Permalink Reply by Bernadette Roche on May 4, 2009 at 8:32pm

I'd be interested in the beta testing, but like others, school is out at the end of the month so I wouldn't get much use out of it over the summer.

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Permalink Reply by Meera on May 6, 2009 at 10:00am

Thanks to everyone for their interest in the upcoming education-friendly version of ToonDoo!

We will be launching for beta-test very soon.

thanks,
Meera
ToonDudette from www.jambav.com