Education cartoons for teachers free: Teacher/education cartoons you can use!

20 Free Tools for Making Comics and Cartoons for Teaching and Learning | by EmergingEdTech

2 min read

·

Dec 11, 2014

Made with MakeBeliefComix

There are so many good free tools for creating comics and cartoons on the web, as well as apps for tablets and smartphones. I’ve built out a list of fun tools I am looking forward to trying out over the upcoming holiday break. I can’t wait to brainstorm creative ways to leverage these in lessons!

Note that some of these tools offer very different types of functionality. It’s important to explore them yourself before introducing them students.

ToonDoo: “Fastest Way to Create Comic Strips and Cartoons”: www.toondoo.com

BitStrips: www.bitstrips.com/create/comic

Make Belief Comics: www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix (you don’t even have to create an account to use this)

Create Your Own Comic from Marvel: marvel.com/games/play/34/create_your_own_comic

Pixton: www. pixton.com

Comic Creator from Read Write Think: www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic

Strip Creator: www.stripcreator.com

Strip Generator: stripgenerator.com/strip/create

Write Comics: writecomics.com

Toonlet: toonlet.com

Cambridge English Online’s Cartoon Creator: cambridgeenglishonline.com/Cartoon_Maker

Cartoonize Your Pet! www.cartoonizemypet.com

Anmish: anmish.com

“LOL” Builder: builder.cheezburger.com/builder/rage

Comic Touch 2 (iOS): itunes.apple.com/app/comic-touch-2/id692819867?mt=8

Cartoonatic (iOS): itunes.apple.com/il/app/cartoonatic/id420905479?mt=8

DoInk (iOS): www.doink.com

Comic Puppets Lite (Android): play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air. com.touchmultimedia.comicpuppetsfree

Marvel Comics: (Android): play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marvel.comics

Draw Anime — Manga Tutorials (Android): play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mangatutorial.drawanime

• Try a few tools yourself and find those you think will work best in your classroom
• Make sure that the app(s) you select actually work in your classroom (they are not blocked, for example)
• Watch out for inappropriate content created by other users

So there you go … now start clicking and using your imagination to have some fun with the cool tools! If you have some experience with these or similar apps in the classroom, we hope you will comment and tell us about it.

Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):

6 Easy Steps for Getting Started Using Free Plickers for Assessment

Find Great Reusable Content With Creative Commons and This Easy Advanced Search Technique

So Many Fun Ways To Use Blabberize In The Classroom

Originally published at www. emergingedtech.com on December 11, 2014.

Teachinghistory.org

Pixton and ToonDoo are cartoon/comic making tools that encourages students to think creatively and apply learning in the history classroom to their original creations. These tools eliminate some of the frustrations students can face when asked to draw characters, allowing them instead to focus on the creative and content aspects of an assignment. For teachers, ToonDoo and Pixton allow students to apply content knowledge and generate new forms of analysis. Students can imagine new scenarios for historical characters, recreate past events visually, and interpret primary sources through a comic strip.

These tools eliminate some of the frustrations students can face when asked to draw characters.

Both sites offer free individual plans and paid subscriptions for educator plans. Although the free plans are useful for teachers wanting to try these tools out for classroom use, it is unfortunate that these sites do not offer a free, basic plan for classroom use. However, for those schools with funds to purchase a school license, the cost is relatively inexpensive at a school level. The paid educator plans also offer classroom management, class homepages, customization, and privacy options to keep student work safe. For teachers lacking funds to purchase educator licenses, the individual free plans at least offer each student who enrolls a way to create cartoons and comics for free.

Getting Started

Pixton allows students to create a «Pixture» (or avatar) and custom characters by editing the various available templates. Once the Pixture is created, users can then choose a desired panel layout to create their own comic. Not all features are available with the free plan. For example, users can edit the look and appearance of a character, but not proportion. Another limitation is that once a panel layout is selected, there is no easy way to change to a different panel layout (other than deleting panels that are not needed). The limitations of the free Pixton program are frustrating. Even simple tasks such as making a comic private or public (or providing your comic a description under the title) are only available for paying customers. Nonetheless, Pixton is easy to use and offers high-quality images that could be fun and appealing for students. For a free, basic plan it is worth taking some time to explore its possibilities.

ToonDoo‘s features also make it a fairly easy-to-use tool. Users simply click on «Create» and select the layout of the comic strip. A variety of character, background, and «props» options are found across the top menu. In addition, the «DoodleR» and «TraitR» tools allow users to create their own drawings or characters. The ability to edit your own TraitR character offers many options that make it easy to customize any character; likewise, the «DoodleR» tool allows users to control brushes by line thickness, transparency, and smoothness. Other features include the image upload tool (images can be uploaded from a URL or from a saved file), a variety of text balloon options, and a collection of clip art. Once each image or character is edited, they are saved in the «My Gallery» folder. At this point, users can begin populating their comic strip. For both Pixton and ToonDoo, students can use these tools to either brainstorm their projects or skits (like a drawing board) or as the final product. Being able to learn history, synthesize information, and then generate a new analysis or opinion is a wonderful skill that cartoon-making empowers students to further develop.

Examples

In this mock-up (which took about an hour to finalize in Pixton), we created a teacher-narrator who introduces us to a young Thomas Jefferson. At only four panels, a comic strip like this can encourage other students to pick up the story. Pixton offers a good variety of images to work with, but in this example we lacked a White House for the background (the Capitol stood in as a symbol of Washington, DC). It is important for students to work within limits and think of creative solutions.

Each one has its own merits, but they both offer teachers the ability to bring some creativity and fun into a history lesson or project.

Other limitations, however, make less sense due to the pricing restrictions. For example, we wanted a thought balloon for the last panel, but that is only available for pay-plans. So we moved the teacher out of the panel and shifted the attention solely to young TJ. It’s a minor quibble, perhaps, but also a needless complication. While ToonDoo has a similar function to Pixton, customizing characters is a bit easier and ToonDoo offers several features for free that are priced in Pixton. Our recommendation is to try both tools. Each one has its own merits, but they both offer teachers the ability to bring some creativity and fun into a history lesson or project. Some examples show that ToonDoo and Pixton cartoons can be informative, created by teachers in order to assign student projects, a snapshot of a moment in history, or thematic, just to draw on a few examples. One user even used ToonDoo to introduce professional development training dealing with new media tools.

teacher illustration, Teacher Cartoon, Teachers, purple, child, violet png

child,

hand,

happy birthday

Vectors,

women’s hair,

women’s shoes,

fictional character,

girl,

shoes,

points,

teacher’s day,

cartoon teacher,

school,

scalable vector graphics,

professional,

vision care,

shoulder,

smile,

position,

education,

teachers Vector,

thumb,

uniform,

vector,

portrait,

male,

board,

Education Science,

girls,

girls Model,

female Vector,

women,

finger,

Free Content,

gentleman,

apartment,

Human behavior,

image Vector,

joint,

Army Welfare Education Society,

Teacher,

Cartoon,

Pictures,

Vector image,

teachers,

png,

transparent,

free download

About this PNG

Image size

936x1898px

File size

104. 06KB

MIME type

Image/png

Download PNG ( 104.06KB )

resize PNG

width(px)

height(px)

License

Non-Commercial Use, DMCA Contact Us

• teacher illustration, Teacher, Purple jacket female teacher, purple, hand, happy Birthday Vector Images png
  1024x1024px
  408.49KB

• female teacher, Teacher Student, teacher, purple, image File Formats, class png
  512x512px
  165.73KB

• Teacher Teacher School, female, child, class, hand png
  2254x1769px
  311.69KB

• Teacher Tutor Education, teacher, hand, cartoon, fictional Character png
  605x705px
  139. 39KB

• man wearing black suit and red tie cartoon, Cartoon, business man, business Woman, hand, people png
  551x1658px
  73.02KB

• woman carrying book standing in front of classroom illustration, class, women Shoes, women Hair png
  4776x4652px
  867.68KB

• woman holding purple book, Student Teacher’s Day Diploma Education, teacher, child, class, hand png
  472x629px
  89.74KB

• man illustration, Cartoon Character Teacher, 3D Computer Graphics, cartoon, fictional Character png
  700x881px
  262.75KB

• Teacher Education, teacher, child, hand, teacher png
  452x1000px
  90. 23KB

• teacher holding chalk illustration, Teacher Cartoon Character Illustration, hand, happy Birthday Vector Images, illustrator png
  2017x3023px
  321.63KB

• Cartoon Character Man, business people, brown-haired male character, tshirt, blue, business png
  1166x3904px
  1.02MB

• Student Teacher Education, Teacher people, man holding stick illustration, angle, child, hand png
  583x662px
  44.45KB

• Teacher Education School, teacher, child, hand, toddler png
  1084x2400px
  210.47KB

• Teacher Student Course Test, teacher, child, class, hand png
  678x977px
  143. 18KB

• Cartoon School, Cartoon child, child, hand, child png
  515x800px
  126.55KB

• female doctor, Physician Primary care Medicine Clinic, female doctor, child, hand, people png
  1600x1600px
  84.06KB

• female teacher boy student, Student Teacher Student teacher, teachers and students, child, class, hand png
  1081x1504px
  108.32KB

• female doctor illustration, Nurse, Nurse, child, black Hair, hand png
  2890x3971px
  608.23KB

• schoolchildren, School student School uniform Child, Children’s clothing uniform, people, toddler, boy png
  1000x847px
  257. 89KB

• woman pointing left side illustration, Teacher Cartoon, female teachers, women’s Shoes, female Hair, fictional Character png
  566x1200px
  231.25KB

• woman wearing coat and holding stick, Ophthalmology, hand, people, happy Birthday Vector Images png
  3317x4846px
  580.61KB

• Teacher Teacher, teacher, angle, hand, boy png
  1067x800px
  188.88KB

• Teacher School Woman, teacher, hand, boy, fictional Character png
  683x1280px
  651.78KB

• doctor illustration, Physician Illustration, Doctors, white, child, hand png
  1067x1297px
  99.92KB

• org/ImageObject»>

  Women open Computer Icons Teacher, teacher, child, construction Tools, face png
  1044x1071px
  296.36KB

• girl thinking, Woman Girl, thinking woman, child, face, hand png
  1857x2388px
  296.29KB

• Professor Teacher, teacher, class, hand, boy png
  800x1067px
  102.32KB

• People, People Free, child, public Relations, people png
  678x678px
  318.94KB

• man with glasses illustration, Professor Teacher Student Cartoon bald old man professor, teacher, cartoon Character, hand, business Man png
  800x1067px
  159.37KB

• scientist illustration, Scientist Laboratory Beaker Illustration, Scientist, child, hand, people png
  1600x1600px
  153. 46KB

• woman doctor illustration, Nurse, female doctor, white, child, face png
  1045x4498px
  304.25KB

• Teacher Student Education Classroom, teacher, hand, reading, cartoon png
  678x957px
  177.78KB

• Teacher Student Drupal, student, tshirt, hand, people png
  524x574px
  421.37KB

• Teacher’s Day Education, Female Teachers, class, hand, woman Hair png
  368x888px
  235.94KB

• Learning Drawing, schoolchildren, child, hand, reading png
  6000x3858px
  1.37MB

• Thinking Man, child, face, studio png
  645x800px
  141. 12KB

• boy looking up while touching his chin, hand, people, human png
  1365x2498px
  326.79KB

• Ecology Biology Teacher, scientist, child, hand, people png
  800x1440px
  813.74KB

• teacher illustration, Teacher’s Day Student Education Cartoon Mathematics, male teacher, cartoon Character, text, cartoons png
  4000x2909px
  550.03KB

• six children illustration, School Lesson Cartoon, schoolchildren, child, class, people png
  908x655px
  258.95KB

• man holding red pointing cartoon, Teacher, angle, hand, boy png
  992x1091px
  128.85KB

• org/ImageObject»>

  woman dressed in white cloth, Physician Family medicine Scrubs Nursing, female doctor, white, child, hand png
  400x800px
  143.21KB

• man and woman making conversation illustration, Woman, Conversation, love, child, hand png
  1024x1024px
  142.83KB

• woman with flowers illustration, Beauty Cosmetics Illustration, Hand-painted female material, watercolor Painting, hair Accessory, face png
  1252x1489px
  309.16KB

• Physician Medicine Drawing, Doctors, male and female doctor, comics, child, hand png
  1000x1000px
  126.04KB

• man and woman wearing lab suits, Chemistry Scientist, Chemistry and Chemistry Teacher, laboratory, biology, happy Birthday Vector Images png
  945x913px
  258.