Toon Curriculum
| Teaching Comics |
NACAE - Natinal Association of Comics Art Educators - Excellent source of teaching resources |
| Cartoon Studio - Jim Allen. Exploring a cartoon career in a problem-based format. |
| Maryland Dept. of Education - Maryland Comic Book Initiative, Sample lessons |
| Uncle Fred - Draw and color with Uncle Fred - Elementary |
| Cartooning Basics - Handouts for Classroom by Duane Barnhart |
| ReadWriteThink - Lesson Plans Comic lesson plans - Create a Comic interactive tool |
| Comics as a teaching aide - Integrated skills class |
| NIE/AAEC - Cartoons for the classroom |
| Secondary Education - Cartoon lesson plans and worksheets |
| Darlene Douthit - Teaching Tots to Toon - Southern California Cartoonists Society |
| CrazyTalk6 - Animation Program for all ages |
| CrazyTalk6 Examples - Elementary school uses CrazyTalk animation for their book talks. |
| Domo Animate - A great simple animation program for kids of all ages...and its free! |
| Alice 2.2 - Free! An educational software that teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment. Geared towards 7th grade and beyond. Includes teaching materials. |
| Make a comic using digital props |
| Bit Strips - Create comics using online props |
| Bubblr - Create comics using photos |
| Make Beliefs Comix - Create comics using online props |
| Toon Doo - Create your own comic strips |
| Comics in the Classroom - Lesson plans and lots of resources |
| Cartoon Academics |
| University of Florida - Dept of English - Comics Scholars Discussion List. Teaching comics resources and research. Excellent resources for the serious comic educator. |
| Comic Resource - Comic Annotated Bibliographies |
| Cartoonist Sites - List of comics and cartoons |
| Center for Media Literacy - How Cartoons Work: The Cartoon Code |
| What
is cartoon-based learning? Using cartoons in the thinking
and research process? Isn't that a little far-fetched? Dr. Jim
Allen, educator and cartoonist, doesn't think so. He'll help us
look a little closer at cartoons and see what makes them tick. Take me there! |