Developing Literacy Skills Through Comics & Graphic Novels

Over the last few months I've shared an ebook about digital storytelling with comics and a list of tools for digital storytelling with ...

5 Ideas for Teaching With Comics and 5 Free Online Tools for Creating Them

I've been thinking about comic strip creation tools quite a bit lately so I decided to share a handful of ideas for teaching with comics...

Try Storyboard That for Creating Stories and Planning Video Projects

Disclosure: Storyboard That is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers . Storyboard That is a nice tool for planning and creating st...

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...

Quickly Add Speech Bubbles and Effects to Images

Phrase.it is a simple service that anyone can use to add speech bubbles and some basic Instagram-like effects to your pictures. To use the ...

The Digital Comic Museum - Public Domain Comics

The Digital Comic Museum is a crowd-sourced collection of hundreds of classic comic books that are now in the public domain. Register users...

Cartoon - Let's Flip, Think Before You Flip

On Saturday I wrote a short post containing three questions to consider before flipping your classroom. Jeff Branzburg took that post and c...

Five Resources for Learning About North Korea

The web comic The Oatmeal doesn't often (perhaps ever) have cartoons that are appropriate for the classroom but today there was one that...

Cartoonatic - Record iPhone Videos With Cartoon Effects

Cartoonatic is a free iPhone and iPad 2 app for recording videos with cartoon effects. The free app offers nine cartoon effects that you ca...

Lego City Comic Builder

Like a lot of people, as a kid I loved playing with Legos. So when I learned that Lego offers a comic creator I had to try it out. At Lego C...

Cartoonize Yourself with Convert to Cartoon

Convert to Cartoon is a simple little website that takes your photos and adds cartoon effects to them. It's quite similar to service ca...

10 Ways to Create Comics Online

Creating cartoons and comic strips can be a good way to get reluctant writers writing. While creating comics you and your students can work ...

Strip Generator - Drag & Drop Comic Creation

Strip Generator is a free tool for quickly creating comic strips that was recently featured on Mashable . Strip Generator allows anyone, e...

Create Your Own Super Hero Comic

The Super Hero Squad invites kids to create their own super hero comic strips and comic books. The Super Hero Squad provides users with tem...

Benefits of Cloud Computing for Students

Here's the third in the series of cartoon slideshows I made a couple of years ago. It's amazing to me that in the world of an ever-e...

Comics in the Classroom - A Panel Discussion

Last week Jeff and Dan at Wicked Decent Learning released a new episode of their Wicked Decent Learning podcast. I finally got a chance to ...

20 Ways to Use Comics In Your Classroom

Through Josh Allen's Tech Fridge blog I recently learned about this slideshow created S. Hendy who writes Digital Tools for Teachers ....