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One teachers guide to some of the many good free tools for creating comics and cartoons on the web, as well as apps for tablets and smartphones.

"ToonyTool.com is a free online cartoon maker and comic creator tool: Create and share your own cartoons, comics and memes online for free. Choose a background or upload your own background. Add your own or our characters en choose from our text clouds"

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Education & teacher cartoons you can embed in your blog

"Beatrice the Biologist is part science blog, part comic, and part incoherent rambling." Using cartoons and comic drawings to shed light on the mysteries of biology.

Using a cartoon as a prompt from which to start a discussion can often be a powerful way to begin to understand complex issues.

Neat whimsical cartoon

Amusing comic/cartoons with a leaning towards STEM ... and CC licensed.

Having older students pick apart the Science/Maths in these humorous offerings can provide a stimulating activity. (but watch out for a few adult themes!)

All cartoons are under a Creative Commons license. In short: you're free to reuse but you have to give credit to "Manu Cornet" and link to www.bonkersworld.net . Commercial use requires purchasing a license, please drop a mail to contact@bonkersworld.net for that.

Cartoon showing how easily some (all?) of us get caught by scams on the Web. (Maybe that's why it's called the 'Web?')

A cartoon to help memorise graphs of functions?

are a new approach to teaching, learning and assessment in sciencewere created by Brenda Keogh and Stuart Naylor in 1991feature cartoon-style drawings showing different characters arguing about an everyday situationare designed to intrigue, to provoke discussion and to stimulate scientific thinkingmay not have a single "right answer"

This tool allows anyone to create an animated video online. You can create your animated video on Wideo by dragging and dropping any element into place in the editor section then set the sequence of the animations.You can manually adjust the timing of the animation of each individual image. You can upload your own images or use the stock options that Wideo offers. They include text, cartoons, and drawings. .

Great little video tutorials that show how to construct comics in comic life but also working with drawplus to rip characters from one cartoon and embedding them in the other. All neatly wrapped up in a cyber bullying theme for a token nod to e-safety.

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

"Wave a Microsoft Kinect sensor around the object you want to inhabit and the new system, developed by Jiawen Chen and his team from Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, quickly creates a 3D virtual model of it. Then, by standing in front of the sensor and positioning your body so that it melds with the virtual character on screen, the two are rigged together by uttering the word "Possess". The system performs the transformation by binding the model to you at the points where your joints are attached. Moving your body makes the avatar come to life, allowing you to re-enact Fantasia-like cartoons or to create your own interactive stories. It's also possible to team up with friends to possess more complex bodies, like a four-legged horse."

PowToon is a free web app that lets you easily create presentations and animated videos, often with a cartoon look and feel.

This cartoon strip from nerdson blog has been translated and reproduced on the UNESCO elearning blog. It is an interesting way to explain to students about how Creative Commons works.

"Planet Nutshell produces short animated videos to explain products, services, and concepts. One of their series of videos is all about the Internet and Internet safety for K-12 students. The series is called NetSafe and it has 17 episodes that were produced for the Utah Education Network. The videos are labeled with grade levels so that students in high school don't watch videos designed for K-3 students. "

Panchatantra Tales - Tiger and the Golden Bangle | Moral Stories for Kids in English with Subtitles

A wiki whch has been gradually collecting explanations for all 1162 + n comics and everything xkcd related.

Get involved and offer your interpretations (there are still over 400 comics to catalogue) or comment/discuss. Maybe have your students have a go?