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Strip Generator allows anyone, even people who claim they can't draw, to create a good-looking black and white comic strip. To create a comic strip all you need to do is select the number of frames you want then drag characters and objects into those frames. The menus for characters and objects are fairly extensive. Once you've selected a character or object you can adjust the size to fit your scene. Adding text is a simple matter of selecting a speech bubble and typing text. When you're happy with your comic strip you can save it online, print it, or embed it into your blog.

Create your own comics without having to draw. Share and remix with your friends.

Online multiplayer collaborative pictionary with the iPhone! Woohoo!

draw and annotate over google maps and then save them and embed into other pages. quick and dirty.

It's your mix, so make something unique. Add pictures, photos, artwork, drawings... Anything you want. It's easy!

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

A web-based site developed for the tweener set. Features a spot for teachers to have their own class pages and even includes lesson plans. The animated look draws kids in, and the site has all the social networking gadgets of the larger sites, but the teacher areas are open only to whomever the teacher allows in-other teachers, students, and parents. This site gets contributed content from its corporate sponsors, which include PBS and Disney.

Artifacts & Fiction is a professional development workshop series that guides teachers through pairing primary source materials with American literature texts. It draws from the online archive and video series of Annenberg Media's American Passages.

Hit the links to find out how to use Google Maps as a whiteboard (scribble over maps) and a plugin to do the same in Google Earth!

The DCNR's site. Has printable drawings of the foilage of 57 native PA trees.

Drawing conclusions is an essential skill for students at all levels. This site offers planning ideas for teaching the skill, along with graphic organizers, checklists and rubrics to monitor its use.

"Create diagrams online Real time collaboration Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge."

"CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. Simple sharing * Anything you paint will show up for all other users in the room in real time. * One click to save a sketch as an image for embedding on forums, blogs, etc. Zero hassle * Runs in all common browsers without plugins or installation. * No registration Now with Google Maps support! * Use google maps as the background for your sketches to show directions or share trips."

YACDS - Yet another collaborative drawing site

Little Bird Tales is a nice site intended for younger students to use to create digital stories. Little Bird Tales walks users through each step of creating a multimedia story. Users can upload images, draw images, or record from their webcams. Stories can be written with text or narrated by students using microphones connected to their computers.

This website claims that it "sticks to the facts, without judging," to allow students to draw their own conclusions.

By making it easier to visualize ideas, we help unlock the mind's true potential. And by harnessing the power of the Internet, we enable the fusion of ideas from any number of people.

yet another online collaborative whiteboard

Library of user-contributed clipart that can be freely used.

GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards.

Free online drawing tool