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Toontastic App Review

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nadrowskil
May 23, 2011

Thanks Lee and John. I will definetly update the app. I am using it with our second grade classes. Now that I am more familiar with it. I will definetly spend the first few lessons modeling, creating and planning story maps before letting the kids "loose" to create their own story. It has great potential and is so exciting for the kids to create stories and hear their voice.

Lee Kolbert
May 17, 2011

Hi!
This app sounds very promising. Have you already tried it with your students? I'd love to hear more. Keep up the great work.
Lee

John Shoemaker
May 3, 2011

Hi Linda. Not sure if you saw, but Toontastic came out with an update yesterday (May 2) and it adds 3 new sets (space) and some new characters. You may want to update!

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App: TOONTASTIC
Grade level: Elementary
Program: The app allows user to build a story one scene at a time. The app includes a story arc which includes setup, conflict, challenge, climax and resolution scenes. Students create, animate, record and include music to enhance the mood of their story. Stories can also be published to ToonTube.

Pros:
  • App is exciting, engaging and motivating for elementary age children
  • Allows students to use story arc to create, animate and record a story
  • Good tool for language development and enrichment. Our speech teacher was very impressed.
  • Allows students to share story online

Cons:
  • Characters and scenes are limited. Currently only a pirate and castle theme are available. I would like to see more variety or the ability to import others.
  • No preplanning or brainstorming prior to creating story. At first students tended to just create dialogue like "boom" "pow" without a real story line. Worked much better to have students become familiar with the program, brainstorm and develop their stories with a storyboard first and then have them create it on Toontastic
  • Animating the characters and editing was a bit difficult at first.
Overall, I like the Toontastic app very much. If they can work on some of the Cons like expanding characters and scenes and include some storyboarding, brainstorming or preplanning prior to create the cartoon, I think it would be a terrific app!