Allowing students to express ideas using cartoons develops lots of skills, this site allows students to create their own cartoons and embed them in their online work as well as print. Great way for getting students to express their ideas differently.
Pixton is a comic creation tool that has been passed around the education blog-o-sphere quite a bit lately. Pixton has a drag and drop interface which allows anyone regardless of artistic ability to create comics. Recently Pixton introduced Pixton for Schools which allows teachers to create private rooms in which only their students can create and share comics. To learn more about Pixton, watch this short video.