A List of some of the best Cartoon Making Tools

The following are some of the best Cartoon Making tools. Due to the growing readers of these tools i finally decided to gather them together for you in a neat and accessible single page so that you can get back to them anytime you want. Educators might use these tools to create caricatures and cartoonic pictures to share with their students in the classroom. I know how important visual aids are in education and applications such as the ones mentioned down are just what we really need to spice up our learning and teaching. Feel free to bookmark and share the list with your friends and colleagues:
1- Cartoonizer

        
Cartoonizer is acool web application . It allows its users to create funny cartoon version of their cats in seconds

2- Automatoon


Automatoon is a great web application. It allows its users to easily create animations. These animations can be reused anywhere on the web.
3- Cartoonatic



Cartoonatic is a great mobile app. It allows its users to turn their videos into cartoons using different cartoonish effects.
4- Anmish



Anmish is a fun web application. It allows its users to create funny animations using caricatures of political figures

5- Host-d.oddcast



Host-d.oddcast is a great image editing tool . It allows its users to embed their pictures and cartonize them into 3d avatar .

6- Write Comics
 


Write Comics is a good web2.0 tool for creating comics . It resembles Strip Generator , the tool I have covered before in a poste entitled  Strip Generator the easiest way to create comic strips .

7- Convert to Cartoon
 


Convert to Cartoon is a cool website to use with your students .

8- Toonlet


Toonlet is another strip generator tool that we can use in education .

9-  Strip Generator



Strip Generator is a great web2.0 site in education . It lets you create your own comic strips with such an ease that anyone with a little technology knowledge would do it in a couple of minutes .
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Picnik – awesome photo editing tool

Picnik is a great photo editing tool. It allows its users to apply several awesome effects on their images using a wide range of editing tools. “ It’s fast, easy, and offers tons of powerful tools, artistic effects, stickers, frames, touch-ups, scrapbooking tools and more. And that’s all for free.”
Picnik is one of the best photo editing tools online. It has two versions: one is free and has enough features to let us tweak images the way we want and the other is premium and has extra features, more tools, advanced effects.



I highly recommend this web tool to educators. Just head over to Picnik and open your free account and start tweaking pictures to share with your students in the classroom. If you want to be an advanced Picnik user then here is a detailed guide to walk you through the different steps and tricks behind a full mastery of Picnik details. Read The Complete Guide of How to Perfectly Use Picnik.

Some features of Picnik

Here is a list of the main features that Picnik offers to its users:

• It is both free and paid
• It has a user friendly interface
• It is easy to use
• It allows users to customize and tweak their images in the ways they want
• It lest you crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
• It works on Mac, Windows, and Linux

How can i get started using Picnik ?

Here is a short video tutorial to show you how to use Picnik

If you liked this application and want to discover other similar tools then i advise you to check: Free Photo Editing Tools.

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SideVibe – Simplify the Web and Save Time

SideVibe is a great website for educators. It allows its users to create “ web based online activities, pose questions or even host threaded discussions that can literally float over any Web page.”These activities are stored in the website database so that users can access them anytime they want using the Feedback Tools.

SideVibe is a great site for teachers. They can use it as a source of educational content where students learn in the appropriate context. Contextualization is one of the biggest favors of SideVibe and i think if used properly, it can be a huge incentive for learners to achieve more.

Some features of SideVibe

Here is a list of the main features that SideVibe offers to its users:

• It has a free basic version with less features than the premium


• It is easy to use


• It has an intuitive interface


• It allows users to create online activities


• You can create as many vibes as possible


• You can control who views your vibes


• Teachers need to sign up for an account and give the entry code to up to 50 students ( free version)


• You can create as many Courses and Topics  as you like on the Course area of your SideVibe homepage.


• It lets you printout nice PDF reports

How does Side Vibe work ?

Here are two video tutorials to show you how this tool can be used :

Here is the student companion tutorial
Here are some links to help you learn what Student Companion is all about :

1. What is the SideVibe Companion?


2. How do I create a SideVibe?


3. How do my students access my SideVibes?


4. Can I create different groups of students?

If you want to learn more about this tool then here are some links to help you do so:

1. How do I create a SideVibe account for myself?


2. How do my students create SideVibe accounts?


3. Is SideVibe secure?


4. How many SideVibes can I create?


5. How much does SideVibe cost?

If you want to discover other useful tools that you can use with your students then i invite you to check :

• Collaborative Web Tools


• Organizing Web Tools


• Publishing Web Tools

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TunesIQ – a funny song guessing game

TunesIQ is a song-guessing game. It allows its users to guess the song being played. The game involves audio being played with song options to choose from on the right. This is a great tool for music fans , they can now test their musical knowledge . It is also a fun tool for students . You use it with them create a competitive atmosphere in the classroom where each group tries to beat the other by guessing correctly more and more songs. This is the principal behind this game, the more correct guesses you make the better you score.

 

 

TunesIQ lest you create a free account on their site and start designing your own quizzes. You can make as many quizzes as you want. You can even share these quizzes with friends and colleagues. Just add songs and the tunes for these songs all come from YouTube.

 

 

Some features of TunesIQ

Here is a set of the main features that TunesIQ offers to its users:

• It is free
• It is easy to use
• It has intuitive interface
• It allows its users to play song-guessing game
• You can create your own quizzes and share them with others

If you are a music fan then test your musical knowledge using this fun game. If you want to check other free music tools then i invite you to consult this list called: Free Musical Tools

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GrossOut – use scary effects to customize your picture

GrossOut is a cool web application. It is a photo editing tool  that is not like any other  app we have covered here so far. GrossOut enables its users to turn their pictures into gross shots. Before , i used to introduce you to photo tools that only allow you to add embellishing  effects but today you will step into the world of ugly art. You will be adding heinous and scary effects such as “crazy eyes, gnawing teeth, eye patches, bat wings, bloody knives and axes, open gash and wounds, masks, and many many more.”

Some features of GrossOut

Here is a list of the main features that GrossOut offers to its users:

• It is free
• It is easy to use
• It does not require any sign up or registration
• It lets you add scary and heinous effects to your images
• You can upload your own picture or capture one using your webcam
• You can also download your scary photo to your computer

How can i get started using GrossOut ?

It is very simple. Just head over to GrossOut main page and start uploading your image or use your camera to capture one. When the upload is over you will be then directed to the editor where you can have access to several  gross tools to apply on your photo. You can also flip, resize, and rotate each item for maximum effect.

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Android Trojan – Learn how to secure your Android

I have just read an article written by Adrian Kingsley Hughes in ZDNET talking about an Android Trojan. Honestly speaking , i never thought that the Android’s security system might be affected with such kind of malwares but it is the virtual world and everything is possible.
The Trojan was discovered by Security Firm Ca. This malware can log calls, record conversations and even send them away to undesired people. It is really a serious security failure from the part of Android makers. There is only one way to protect your phone and secure your calls and private info, it is knowing how this Trojan works.


When you start receiving multiple requests for granting permissions to certain apps then this should raise a red flag for you. Once the malware is installed then ‘it installs a configuration file that contains remote server access information.’ The microSD card in AMR files where the conversations are stored is now completely open to the malware which means that your calls will be tracked.

The best way to protect yourself is to make sure to which request or app you grant permissions. Some of us when installing an app keeps clicking on next and next and next till it is done. Now you need to change your mobile habits and stay alerted to what you are installing on your android.

“As it is already widely acknowledged that this year is the year of mobile malware, we advice the smartphone users to be more logical and exercise the basic security principles while surfing and installing any applications.” said Security Firm Ca.

Check other free  Android news and apps

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Make free calls from your Gmail

"you can reach the people you care about from right inside Gmail. Last year, we made it possible for those of you in the U.S. to call any mobile phone or landline directly from Gmail and starting today, we are making this available to many more of you who use Gmail outside the U.S. by offering calling in 38 new languages."..........read more in

Official Google Blog: Calling from Gmail now in 38 languages, with lower rates to over 150 destinations

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