Aug 3, 2011 ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a list of some of the best free online cartoon making tools. I know how important visual aids are in education and applications such as the ones mentioned down are just what we really need to spice up our learning and teaching. Feel free to bookmark and share the list with your friends and colleagues. You will also find a slideshow below that contains all these tools.

1- Cartoonizer

Cartoonizer is acool web application . It allows its users to create funny cartoon version of their cats in seconds.

2- Automatoon

Automatoon is a great web application. It allows its users to easily create animations. These animations can be reused anywhere on the web.

3- Cartoonatic

Cartoonatic is a great mobile app. It allows its users to turn their videos into cartoons using different cartoonish effects.

4- Anmish

Anmish is a fun web application. It allows its users to create funny animations using caricatures of political figures.

5- Host-d.oddcast

Host-d.oddcast is a great image editing tool . It allows its users to embed their pictures and cartonize them into 3d avatar .

6- Write Comics

Write Comics is a good web2.0 tool for creating comics . It resembles Strip Generator , the tool I have covered before in a poste entitled Strip Generator the easiest way to create comic strips .

7- Convert to Cartoon

Convert to Cartoon is a cool website to use with your students .

8- Toonlet

Toonlet is another strip generator tool that we can use in education .

9- Strip Generator

Strip Generator is a great web2.0 site in education . It lets you create your own comic strips with such an ease that anyone with a little technology knowledge would do it in a couple of minutes .

Here is a slideshow I have created containing all of the tools mentioned here:

Picnik – awesome photo editing tool

image editing tools , photo tools

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Picnik is a great photo editing tool. It allows its users to apply several awesome effects on their images using a wide range of editing tools. “ It’s fast, easy, and offers tons of powerful tools, artistic effects, stickers, frames, touch-ups, scrapbooking tools and more. And that’s all for free.”
Picnik is one of the best photo editing tools online. It has two versions: one is free and has enough features to let us tweak images the way we want and the other is premium and has extra features, more tools, advanced effects.

I highly recommend this web tool to educators. Just head over to Picnik and open your free account and start tweaking pictures to share with your students in the classroom. If you want to be an advanced Picnik user then here is a detailed guide to walk you through the different steps and tricks behind a full mastery of Picnik details. Read The Complete Guide of How to Perfectly Use Picnik.

Some features of Picnik

Here is a list of the main features that Picnik offers to its users:

It is both free and paid
It has a user friendly interface
It is easy to use
It allows users to customize and tweak their images in the ways they want
It lest you crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
It works on Mac, Windows, and Linux

How can i get started using Picnik ?

Here is a short video tutorial to show you how to use Picnik

If you liked this application and want to discover other similar tools then i advise you to check: Free Photo Editing Tools.

SideVibe – Simplify the Web and Save Time

collaborative tools , organizing tools , publishing tools , social networking tools

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SideVibe is a great website for educators. It allows its users to create “ web based online activities, pose questions or even host threaded discussions that can literally float over any Web page.”These activities are stored in the website database so that users can access them anytime they want using the Feedback Tools.

SideVibe is a great site for teachers. They can use it as a source of educational content where students learn in the appropriate context. Contextualization is one of the biggest favors of SideVibe and i think if used properly, it can be a huge incentive for learners to achieve more.

Some features of SideVibe

Here is a list of the main features that SideVibe offers to its users:

It has a free basic version with less features than the premium
It is easy to use
It has an intuitive interface
It allows users to create online activities
You can create as many vibes as possible
You can control who views your vibes
Teachers need to sign up for an account and give the entry code to up to 50 students ( free version)
You can create as many Courses and Topics as you like on the Course area of your SideVibe homepage.
It lets you printout nice PDF reports

How does Side Vibe work ?

Here are two video tutorials to show you how this tool can be used :

Here is the student companion tutorial
Here are some links to help you learn what Student Companion is all about :

If you want to learn more about this tool then here are some links to help you do so:

If you want to discover other useful tools that you can use with your students then i invite you to check :

9 Free Tools to Create Educational Cartoons