Kerpoof is Closing - Here Are Some Alternatives

Kerpoof is closing on April 15th. This week I've had a few requests to share some alternatives to Kerpoof. The following resources offe...

An iPad App, Android App, and Web App for Drawing Animated Comics

Earlier today in my NCTIES workshop about creating media with mobile apps we talked about having students create comics to tell a story. Tw...

5 Free Apps and Sites for Creating Short Animations

Creating animations can be a fun element to add to a creative writing project. Creating the animation could be the final piece of the projec...

Is Your Message Clear? Have Someone Else Animate or Illustrate It

This is a problem we all face at times; we think that we've created a great presentation or developed a great story yet it just doesn...

5 Apps and Sites for Creating Animations

This afternoon on Twitter I was asked for some recommendations for tools that students can use to create animations. The first one that came...

Create Animated Comics with Sketch Star

Sketch Star has gone offline.  Sketch Star from Miniclip is a fun and free tool for creating animated comics. On Sketch Star students can c...

Automatoon - Create Animations for the Web

Automatoon is a free service for creating simple to complex animations that you can reuse anywhere on the web. There are three basic steps ...

Animated Explanations

Animated Explanations is a website for finding animated explanations of topics and concepts in the fields of health, technology, and work. ...

Fake Newspapers and Talking Tomatoes

Fodey is a free service that offers you the ability to create fake newspaper clipping, "talking" tomatoes, "talking" sq...