Cartoons and Comics

Good evening!

Tonight's blog post is about using online cartoon and comic creators in the classroom.

There many sites such as ToonDoo, Pixton, and MakeBeliefsComix that students and educators can use to create lesson and projects that can not only be original but fun as well.

I tried creating a comic in each site. Some yielded better results than others when I created my own.

ToonDoo

The site itself gave me the hardest time with loading. After several attempts I was able to create a toon but editing never quite came out right when I tried resizing things. Of the three it was the site I had the most difficulty in using due to technical issues which is why I couldn't screenshot or embed but hopefully the link works. I will test it on a Windows computer to see if it works.
http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=10589478

Otherwise it seemed okay

Paxton

The site was fairly easy to use. It does require registration and offers a limited day trial. It was fairly easy to use but the format seemed more fitting for older students and educators.

<iframe src="//www.pixton.com/schools/embed/yqljdw6w" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="384" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Make Beliefs Comix

This site was by far my favorite of the three. It required no registration which is great for students. No memorizing user logins. The comic can be saved onto the computer, emailed or printed. Some of the things that can be added to the comic are animated which makes it even funnier to look at.