Toondoo and Spresent in other Languages - Yes!!

Great news for teachers of students for whom English is not their mother tongue, particularly in elementary school.

ToonDoo www.toondoo.com now supports unicode - meaning that students can create comics in any language they choose. UI is still in English but the editor is very user friendly and easy to learn.

This is my first attempt - a bit predicatable maybe, but my aim was really to test the language option, that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

Another application which has added other languages is the online flash presentation creator Spresent at www.spresent.com. Languages supported so far (including User Interface) are: English, Spanish, Portugese, Japanese, French, German, Vietnamese AND Hebrew, with Russian apparently being next on the agenda. The developers invite anyone wishing to help translate the UI to their language of choice to contact them from their blog at http://www.v-chat.com/blog/

I created a demo in Hebrew just to show a few of the features and to try a work round for the problem of right to left alignment - which unfortunately is still not supported

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Comment by SusanTsairi on June 12, 2007 at 5:30pm: Hi Skip, glad you like Spresent, I hope you get a chance to check toondoo, student's love it.
Just received an update on another favorite Aniboom shapeshifter: http://www.aniboom.com/ShapeshifterMain/
It's an application for creating webbased animations from 4 basic shapes. Amazing what people can create! Anyway shapeshifter new features are: adding color to the animation, exporting the animation as an animated gif and embedding the flash animation in other webpages. They are also running a competition with great prizes.
Heres a link to an animation that was created in less than minutes just to give some idea of what a shapeshifter animation is.
http://www.aniboom.com/ShapeshifterPlayer.aspx?v=22658

Obviously I agree with you about the importance of multi-language support - I make it a point to write to the developers of tools that seem to have potential - asking them to add such support - sometimes as with Spresent, the request is fulfilled, sometimes it is added to a "todo" list. I suppose if enough people write then eventually things move in the right direction.