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ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool from Jambav, a fun site for kids. Jambav is devoted to creating a unique array of free and customizable online games of educational value for children of all abilities. This effort is backed by the US-based software powerhouse Zoho Corp Inc., a highly successful and profitable organization that has several successful brand names to its credit. ToonDoo was the happy result of brainstorming session that was aimed at creating a new way of expression for those who do not have the talent to draw. You can now just drag-drop or click to create comic strips that express your views, opinions, angst or to just have fun, loads of it!

EZFlar code was developed by Eduardo Malpeli, a.k.a. "Tcha-Tcho", with the help of Daniel Roda and Alex Freitas. Everyone involved in the project work in the daily O Estado de São Paulo, a Brazilian newspaper and one of the biggest in Latin America. In March 2009, came the idea of using augmented reality in news content, made unprecedented in the world, but an idea of great potential for infographists as us.

These goggles provide a simple, easy way for non-technical people to inspect Web pages, learn about how they are put together, and remix them. They are part of the Hackasaurus backpack.

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between. A great way to begin learning about Digital Storytelling is by watching the following video introduction to Digital Storytelling.

For those of us raised in typical school settings, the memory of straight-row desks with little activity is all too familiar. As we're all aware, the Kinect has the potential to evolve classrooms beyond this 18th century model of learning to a structure that's aligned with brain research and the benefits of active learning.

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Digital storytelling is the use of digital tools to let ordinary people tell their own real-life stories by Jim Groom (Edupunk)

Powering the world's creativity. Aviary makes an easy-to-use photo editing API for web and mobile apps which allows developers to focus exclusively on making great apps, while enabling their users to make their photos amazing.