Multiliteracy is the literacy of the digital age. It is more than just reading and writing. Multi literacy is using technology in all its media forms, animation and audio, video combined with traditional text, reading and writing. Multiliteracy uses the internet and ICT to search for information and create new electronic messages that can be shared amongst peers, family, school community, even globally.
ToonDoo is a creative way to introduce multiliteracies into your classroom. ToonDoo is a specific genre of cartooning, a web comic, a comic book designed to be viewed online. Through using ToonDoo, students are able to create multimedia-rich digital stories in a Web comic format. Such a combination of interactivity and multimedia provides a new impulse in digital storytelling to students by making them more active members of learning process (Vassilikopoulou, Retalis, Nezi, & Boloudakis, 2011 pp 121).
ToonDoo allows users to use premade graphics, images and backgrounds using a drag and drop application. No special artistic or illustrative skill is necessary to use ToonDoo, although there is an option to upload your own cartoon images and characters. Users can choose the number of frames as well as the design of the cartoon. There is a variety of speech bubbles and titles to use also.
Cartoons are motivating for students. They are timeless and have appealed to generations of children. Using cartoons in an educational setting is not unique, however the ability to design, create and share cartoons online is. For reluctant readers, cartoons offer an alternative to wordier and longer texts, and cartoons rely on both visual and textual cues for struggling readers.
Vassilikopoulou, M., Retalis, S., Nezi, M., & Boloudakis, M. (2011). Pilot use of digital educational comics in language teaching. Educational Media International, 48 (2), 115-126.
ToonDoo is a creative way to introduce multiliteracies into your classroom. ToonDoo is a specific genre of cartooning, a web comic, a comic book designed to be viewed online. Through using ToonDoo, students are able to create multimedia-rich digital stories in a Web comic format. Such a combination of interactivity and multimedia provides a new impulse in digital storytelling to students by making them more active members of learning process (Vassilikopoulou, Retalis, Nezi, & Boloudakis, 2011 pp 121).
ToonDoo allows users to use premade graphics, images and backgrounds using a drag and drop application. No special artistic or illustrative skill is necessary to use ToonDoo, although there is an option to upload your own cartoon images and characters. Users can choose the number of frames as well as the design of the cartoon. There is a variety of speech bubbles and titles to use also.
Cartoons are motivating for students. They are timeless and have appealed to generations of children. Using cartoons in an educational setting is not unique, however the ability to design, create and share cartoons online is. For reluctant readers, cartoons offer an alternative to wordier and longer texts, and cartoons rely on both visual and textual cues for struggling readers.
Vassilikopoulou, M., Retalis, S., Nezi, M., & Boloudakis, M. (2011). Pilot use of digital educational comics in language teaching. Educational Media International, 48 (2), 115-126.
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