ToonDoo in the Classroom

Every classroom needs a little bit of fun and humor. One of the simplest forms of humor from our young days is the comics from the Sunday newspaper. Calvin and Hobbs, The Peanuts, Garfield, and more made life a lot more colorful, even though they were drawn in black and white.

There's also the notion that students learn more and understand better when lessons are fun and details are funny. ToonDoo is website where students and teachers can create great looking cartoons really fast. It was started after a few guys decided that you shouldn't have to be an artist to make great comics. The simple drag and drop, or just click, interface allows some of the youngest students to create and share.

With ToonDoo humor can be added into many kinds of lessons and assignments, for instance:

• A Social Studies current event could be a funny comic strip
• The lab rules for Science class
• The steps in solving a complicated Math problem
• The words to the Canterberry Tales in Language Arts
• Notes to a song for Band
• How to play a new sport for PE
• Bus safety guidelines during pick-up and drop-off

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