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Draw Island is a free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Draw Island offers you your choice of four canvas sizes on which you can draw. Draw Island offers two canvas sizes for creating simple GIF animations. To use Draw Island just head to the site and select a drawing tool. You can draw free hand (or should I say free mouse?) or select pre-defined shapes to use in your images. When you're done drawing just click the save button to download your drawing or animation

Online drawing tool, quick and easy to use, with version for iPad and iPhone. No sign-up required.

Frames is educational software for stop-motion animation, claymation, and digital storytelling. Frames helps students develop 21st-century communication skills.

This site is a collaborative online drawing and animation project from Google and the UK's Tate Modern art gallery. Draw part of a picture and add to other people's creation. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design

An online art project developed by Google, this site is a place for digital storytelling through pictures, not words. Students can work collaboratively to create a short animated story, with each animation building off the previous branches. Students can create their own seeds & invite others to grow a tree with them. Before students can create their own seeds, they do have to contribute to an already existing tree. If a student does not feel they can express their words with an animation, think about having the students pair up. Have one student become an author & write an outline of the story, while the other student draws the animation of the story.

Create videos of drawings & animations with narration on iOS devices. Record audio as pupils move elements of the picture on the screen and then share the videos.

A superb site for making simple drawing animations. Create great cartoons with just a few squiggles and clicks. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

A great animation site which makes cartoons from your virtual drawings. It has very few options and buttons which makes it easy to use by younger children. But don't think that it isn't sophisticated. It uses HTML5 and your cartoons will look great. sign up required to save your creations. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams

This is a great online animation tool designed for children. It has a great set of tools, including clipart, text tools and 'puppet' images with movable limbs and changeable heads. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

A great site where teachers upload drawing and paintings of animals and stories that go with it. Basic account is free, but a paid for option with more features is available. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

A great animation website designed for children. They can draw pictures or use some of the pre-made pictures. Note that not all of these pictures are free to use, but the basics will be fine for most classroom users. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams

Animate your drawing.

Hand-drawing animated video explaining the writing process. This is shaped around blogging, but it is also applicable elsewhere.

Great video for explaining the writing process. It's focused on blogging, but applicable elsewhere.

"Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage."

HD Educational videos about Adobe Flash. Tutorial themes could be drawing, animation, gaming, web design, actionscripting or any of the other cool things you can use Flash for.

Create animations, comics, stopmotion. Need an account.

What is Voki? Voki is a FREE service that lets you: Create customized avatars. Add voice to your Voki avatars. Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile. Take advantage of Voki's learning resources.