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Make Beliefs is a free comic strip creation tool that provides students with a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for building their own comic strips. Make Beliefs provides students with a pre-drawn characters and dialogue boxes which they can insert into each box of their comic strip. The editing options allow users the flexibility to alter the size of each character and dialogue bubble, bring elements forward within each box, and alter the sequence of each box in the comic strip. Students that have trouble starting a story can access writing prompts through make beliefs. Most impressively, Make Beliefs allows users to write their comic strip's dialogue in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portugese, or Latin.

THis was shared on twitter tonight. I had seen it before, but this came at a particularly good time. Combine that with the South African billboard that Thomas Friedman points out in his talk about his book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" that goes like this: "German Engineering. Swiss Innovation. American Nothing!" NOW ask yourself, "Do we have time to debate this stuff (filtering policies, etc) any longer? The answer is a resounding NO!

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

This would be a great assignment. Have your students write a pargraph and put it through a translation tool and find the mistakes and correct them. You can see the process using google doc's revision history feature.