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Does tool require Sign-in?
Yes, but its free to sign up, you just need to provide an email address.

Description of Tool:
Toondoo allows you to create your own cartoon choosing backgrounds, characters, props and text boxes. The amount of frames is limited to 4 squares, with varying layouts.

How does tool apply to your curricular area? (if your group contains more than one curricular area, give an example in each area)
This tool could be used in a Spanish class by having students create a story/dialogue and presenting the story though a cartoon created on Toondoo. You could also include stipulations on which vocabulary to use, or other guidelines for the dialogue.

Where does tool fit in Digital Blooms and why?
This tool would fit in the create level of blooms because students are using the information that they know to create a dialogue or story. Then then create the visual representation of that dialogue as well.

=Part 2=

Description
Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to:

1. Use Storybird, or toondoo.com to illustrate a conversation or short narrative in the target language-Spanish.

2. Collaborate with their peers on Storybird.com or toondoo.com to create a finished product to be published.

** Categories: **[|Just for fun], [|Technology] , [|Foreign language] , [|Interdisciplinary] ** Tags: **[|modern languages] , [|technology]

What you'll need:

 * COMPUTER LABORATORY, ACESS TO THE INTERNET AND MICROSOFT WORD

How to make it:
Content Area Standards and Performance Indicators:
 * 1) STANDARDS/ESTANDARES

STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

COMMUNICATION Communicate in Languages Other Than English • Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

CONNECTIONS Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information • Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language

COMPARISONS Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture • Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own

COMMUNITIES Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home & Around the World • Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting • Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment. Technology Skills, Standards and Performance Assessments:

> a. Students use the Storybird.com or toondoo.com to create a final Storybook or comic strip that can be published and shared with others to further literacy in the target language. > b. While working on the project, students collaborate with each other and discuss best ways to illustrate their ideas. This collaboration lends itself to improved knowledge better inter-personal skills by collaborating with others. > > How and when the Teacher Uses Technology in the lesson > The teacher can demonstrate both storybook and toondoo to the students via connecting his or her laptop to the Promethean board. > Also when the students are ready to present their stories or cartoons, the students can e-mail the project to the teachers to avoid having each student have to log into the programs. Then the teacher or student may show his or her finished product on the Promethean Board. > The teacher may use the tools of the Promethean Board to illustrate points of discussion > > 1. Students will each have their own computer. > 2. Students who have experience using toondoo.com will be assigned as peer tutors. > 3. Teacher will walk around lab and assist as necessary. > > 1. Students will work on their conversation/ story in class on paper; and afterwards lab time will be scheduled for them to type their conversation in Microsoft word. This will speed up the process of entering the script into Storybird or Toondoo. > 2. Students will sign up for toondoo with the Parents’ permission. > > 1. Teacher will show students some comic strips or stories already published on Storybird.com. > > Instruction: > 1. Students will create a story book using Storybird.com; or a cartoon using toondoo.com, in which they use a conversation or a script already written in class, or they may use chunks of a conversations or ideas from a unit to work on a story/cartoon. > > Guided Activity: > Students will practice entering text into a speech bubble on toondoos.com, and entering French/Spanish accent marks via control c/control v copy and paste from word, or by using the wand in toondoo. They will also practice selecting artwork and using the “invite someone to collaborate” feature of Storybird and toondoo. > > Independent Activity: > Once students have selected their conversation to use from their portfolio, they may start imputing the data into their chosen program. > The teacher will walk around and monitor their progress and assist them with any questions. > > > Rubric > 4 3 2 1 > Punctuation marks/accent marks No errors 1-3 errors 3-6 errors 7 plus errors > Images selected Represents script well. > Student showed cultural details. Some images represent the script well. > No cultural details. Some images are distracting. Does not represent or go well with script. > Inappropriate images. > Title Creative unique, works well with script. Creative with grammatical errors. Title given by teacher, satisfactory but not original. Title is not in the target language. > > > > > Lesson Plan adapted from: http://h30411.www3.hp.com/projects/86478-How_can_we_use_Story
 * 1) USING TECHNOLOGY Technology is used to support Student-learning in the following ways:
 * 1) CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES Classroom Management Techniques:
 * 1) PREPARATION BEFORE CLASS Preparation before class:
 * 1) INTRODUCTION/INSTRUCTIONS Introduction to lesson:
 * 1) ASSESSMENT/RUBRICS Assessment: To create a story book on Storybird.com or a comic strip on toondoo.com that is well illustrated and ready for publishing; and to share the final product with the class for our enjoyment and learning.
 * 1) LESSON EXTENSION Lesson Extensions: Students may use Toondoo.com or Storybird.com for any homework or activity or assessment item assigned in which they have to write a conversation/ prose in the target language.