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Teaching with Toontastic
Toontastic 3D is a playful storytelling app that scaffolds the creative writing process and empowers kids to create their own animated cartoons. While Toontastic was not specifically designed for schools, we have heard from a lot of educators over the years that they love how the app sparks their students’ imaginations and uses the Story Arc to help frame their writing. Their students use the app for creating everything from book reports to news broadcasts and foreign language skills.
With Explain Everything, educators can share drawings, text, photos and video with the entire class in real time. The app lets them annotate a map, play a recording of a humpback whale song or a video of a lunar landing, map out the process of photosynthesis and type out ideas as students share them.
Has a free version - is limited.