Review of ToonDoo

ToonDoo allows anyone to draw and post their own comics. These could be simple stick figure drawings or something more complex involving clipart and effects.

This website could be effective at getting students to visually depict an event or idea, using ICT tools, enabling them to share their work with the rest of the class. Comics can then be compiled in a 'ToonBook', giving students something to add to and claim ownership of.

Some digital literacy would be required in order to draw the comics, so this site would be well suited for ages that have the mouse skills to illustrate their work.

www.toondoo.com

Techknowledge

Review of TechKnowledge

Who else, in the first thirty seconds or so of the video, actually believed that there was such thing as the Pacific North-West Tree Octopus?

Even as a uni student, for a split second in the back of my head I believed that such an animal existed. This shows the power of digital information technology, and it's ability to mislead web-browsers; it also demonstrates the importance of teaching Digital Critical Literacy. This will ensure that students are not only proficient at obtaining information from the internet, but aware of and adept at filtering unreliable information.

What are Digital Literacies?

It is possible for the social construction of knowledge to use technology in a way that allows new and different forms of gathering and presenting information.

Digital Literacies are the educational skills that involve using technological tools to reach a wider audience.