Toondoo is a great online comic creator with many great tools, Students can create cartoon characters, cartoons and books, all automatically published. Even better its free.
A new initative from Toondoo is the school domain, a chance to have a space just for your students work. More from Toondoo below.
‘Thanks to concerns (related to inappropriate content) from many educators, we will soon be offering exclusive school domains (such as schoolname.toondoo.com) Many schools have already signed up with us for this service. Here’s how it will work:
- We will provide a separate domain for each school (for example: http://www.schoolname.toondoo.com/).
- ONLY students of that school will be able to create toons at this domain but any one will be able to view them on the internet, embed them in blogs,wikis etc.
- We will let the teachers completely own the editorial rights in this case. That would mean they can monitor the content, block inappropriate toons and also do the editor picks.
- The domain will be free of charge during the beta testing phase of six months, post which there would be nominal annual charges for it.’
If you are interested, please contact Meera Sapra:meerasapra@toondoo.com.
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Do you ever need to expand an image to create a huge, large impact poster for your classroom?
Blockposter will take your photo and create a large block poster. You pick the size and blockposter returns a PDF ready for printing.
Its free, quick and doesnt require a sign in. So next time you want to create a large display for your classroom you may like to give blockposter a try
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This post is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to offer feedback on our Professional Learning days. Hopefully this will inform our planning for future sessions.
If you are stuck for ideas on what you may include in your comments, here are some basic suggestions:
- What you found to be valuable
- What you found interesting
- What you would like to be included at our next session
- Any concerns or questions
Professional learning Day 1 - 23rd February
Please add your comments
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enables direct access to the resources and provides sophisticated browse, search and filter technologies to find over 7,500 interactive learning objects, images, audio files and movie clips.
The biggest advantage of these resources is that they are Australian designed and created for Australian curriculum and they are all FREE. Scootle has been updated from the previous Learning Federation site which in the past we have been able to access via myinternet.
Details on how to access Scootle
- Please contact Adrian Brown from the CEC @ Adrian.Brown@cecnsw.catholic.edu.au - he will need your school’s principal to send him an email nominating the person within the school who is going to manage access to SCOOTLE (I would assume in the majority of cases this will be the Learning Technologies Coordinator) Please ensure that the principal includes the email address of this person. Also please ensure that the email address is and .edu.au address. This will assist in the authentication process.
- Once the principal has sent an email with the details of the school manager of scootle, that person will have an administrator account set up and can then manage scootle for the rest of the school. The administration of scootle is extremely straight forward.
All the resources found within scootle are also available in myclasses. You simply go to your class page and choose ‘add a property’ and search for the name of the resource you found in Scootle, just as you would have with Learning Federation resources in the past.
A manual about Scootle can be downloaded from the SCOOTLE site
Adrian has created a small movie about registering other members of staff so that they can use Scootle. It begins with the email Adrian sends when he registers a school.
If you have any questions about this setup Adrian’s phone number is 0439991514.
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Digital technologies have revolutionised how creative works are made, distributed, and used. The challenge facing our schools is to ensure that we are teaching our students to treat others creative works in a fair and just way - with integrity.
Creative commons allows us to use and build on the many great resources on the web. It enables students to build on others creations and learning in a legal and ethical way.
The presentation below explains a little more about creative commons
Some of my favourite creative commons sites are
flickrcc A great photo sharing site for creative commons photos. You can also edit photos from within the site.
Creative Commons Search - A search engine for creative commons resources
archive.org The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Freely download images, movies, music
Freesound The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.
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We have created a small bank of online resources you might like to share with your colleagues at school. There is a description briefly detailing the resource above each link.
Fuzzmail allows you to record your email as it progresses, displaying all changes, from basic spelling edits to more dynamic changes to text form. It also communicates and pauses the authors fluency, translating the email into a more dynamically expressive text.
Click here for fuzzmail
Fodey.com is a website that allows you to create your own newspaper clippings. The clippings are quite authentic looking and this online resource could be incorporated into writing experiences.
Click here to access fodey.com
Babelfish translates blocks of text from one language to another and also converts webpages from one text to another.
Click here for babelfish
Reading planet is a literacy online site which allows students to create stories and investigate poetry.
Click here for reading planet
Toothtally project is an online resource which gives teachers a way to integrate a common event in the life of a first grader- loosing a tooth, with a number of KLA’S.
Click here to access the toothtally project
Toondoo is an online site allows users to create their own cartoons. This is similar to Comic Life with slightly more creative options.
Click here to access toondoo
Learning Technologies on-line resources -Sherryn’s.ppt
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If you would like some help using the tools mentioned in the presentation you will find links at the top of this page. At the links you will find a movie that will guide you through the process of using edublogs, pbwiki, slideshare, teachertube and animoto.
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Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
For our schools Creative Commons materials ensure that we stay on the right side of the law when using materials from the internet.
You can find a selection of Creative Commons resources here
Watch the movie below to learn more
Download Title
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September 17, 2007 · 2 Comments
If you are interested in communicating with other Learning Technology Co-ordinators via ichat we will post accounts and school names below for you to access,
Ss Peter and Paul Kiama
phillip.steep@mac.com
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At our meeting last week I referred you to the on-line audio-visual site ‘Australianscreen’
Attached is a Media release outlining this resources potential for classroom application.
media-release.pdf
You may wish to refer your teachers to this site also.
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