Toon Doo Experience

Overall, I think Toon Doo is a good web program to use with our students. It allows for seemingly endless creativity which is something that many of my students mentioned was their favorite aspect of the program in their post project reflections. However, there were some problems encountered.

Pros:

1. The program is user friendly. Overall, the majority of my students were able to figure out how to use the various functions of the web program fairly quickly.
2. Many of the students expressed their like for the ability to use their creativity in showing their learning.
3. Many of the students expressed that they liked the "newness" and uniqueness of the web program.
4. Some students expressed that they felt that they thought they "remembered" the notes because they were creating stories with pictures. They felt that clicking and dragging was quicker, more visually appealing, and more efficient that illustrating by hand.

Cons:

1. Signing up for Toon Doo accounts and learning how to navigate/use the program takes at least 1 full class period.
2. Some students (approx. 10) were overwhelmed/confused by the amount of choices.
3. SAVING ISSUES: many of the students lost a days worth of work because their work would not save. We suspect this was an issue caused by the wireless kicking in and out. If the students attempted to save without checking to the wireless connection, the program froze in save mode and the work was lost. Many had to restart their comic strips. This caused disappointment/dispair in these students. We solved the problem by resorting to saving screen shots.

http://www.toondoo.com/

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