Toon-Do...

There was a resource called Toon-Do. It allows you to create cartoons of your own. As a sub, I saw students (within the last week) making a cartoon as part of a project. They were doing it by hand. Kids would love using a program like this. As a sub I've observed students using the computer to complete one project or the other, and the students might spend more time looking for pictures than working on the content of the project. It seems like a lot of time can be spent on the non-educational part of the project than the actual project itself. If the learning experience is not just social studies, but becoming better at creating things on the computer, maybe that part of the lesson is just as important as the social studies part. What have others observed?

I agree...I am also a substitute teacher and find that students spend a lot of time searching for images to use in their projects. Some of this is good and how they learn to safe search and use images that are free to use and share, but I have observed that many students waste a lot of time with this part of the project. I liked the Toon-Do app as well for a change! I think this stretches their creativity, and makes for a unique project.

I think Toondoo would be a fantastic way to help students do pre-writing for Language Arts assignments! It would allow them to "storyboard" a story idea to determine the feasibility of the plot before writing a rough draft. It would also give them an alternative presentation method for writing projects-- or at the very least, a supplement to them.