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"Make 2D screen based cartoon stories to illustrate conversations and dialogues. Stories can include an unlimited number of frames and are view frame by frame. Each frame can include: Images: Drag and drop library items onto the frame, or import your own digital photos or images saved from the web. Text bubbles: Select from a range text bubbles and information boxes. Drag and drop onto the frame and start typing! Text can be in any language and any script. Voice recordings: Add new voice recordings using the simple built in recording panel. You can also add recordings already saved on your computer. Stories are saved on your computer as HTML page (webpages), and can easily viewed by others on any computer using a web browser such as Internet Explorer. Stories can also be printed. Completed stories can also be loaded back into the Cartoon Story Maker and edited or added to." Windows software

Allows teachers to create interactive drag-and-drop activities to post on their own websites. (Think refrigerator magnet poetry, but applied to language learning.) Developed by a teacher for her own use and shared with others.

Text-to-movie system: you type in a script, it automatically animates it and speaks it. "We offer a variety of artistic sets and actors to fill your stage. You can frame your action by selecting a pre-defined camera shot, making and saving your own setup, or rely on our Magicam option for automatic camera switching. Quickly bring your characters to life with our patented drag-and-drop animation system available on the web."

Digital media conversion is becoming an increasingly frequent task at the CLS, and the computational power it usually requires leaves many staff workstations running below acceptable levels for the duration of the job. To help offload these tasks, we've devised a script to be run on a dedicated media conversion server that offers true "drag 'n' drop" functionality for media encoding.