Toondoo is a comic-creating tool that allows you to create, personalize and publish your cartoons.

Toondoo  allows teachers to create a rich, creative illustrations for lessons that may be too difficult to understand textually such as science concepts.  Adding pictures or illustration will help get the attention and emotional interests of the students.  Teachers can use this also as extension projects so students can express what they learn in a more creative way.  For example, they can create story characters or make historical characters alive in their cartoons.  For students who have difficulty drawing, toondoo allows them to create a cartoon using their templates.

Advantages:

• Has a variety of character, background and props options
• Has DoodleR and TraitR tools that allow users to create their own drawings and characters.
• Includes social features such as friends comments, ratings by others.

Disadvantages:

• Takes time to render.
• Has to be connected to the internet
• Rights of your creation belong to Toondoo
• Once work is shared to the public, students are vulnerable to outside comments that can be deemed inappropriate.

How to use toondoo:

1. Go to http://www.toondoo.com/
2. Choose Register in the top right corner to set up an account.
3. Go to Tools > ToonDoo Maker or Book Maker (a bookmaker uses the same process as the cartoon, it just puts it in a book format with turnable pages.
4. Select your layout.
5. Go through the process of viewing the available characters, backgrounds, props, texts, clipart, etc. Drag your choices down into the template. 
6. After creating your cartoon, go to the Toon Doo Start Here button and choose Save. 
7. Create a title and tags.
8. Choose whether you want others to be able to “Redoo”
9. Publish based on your preferences.
10. View and share your new toon! 

Here's my toondoo:http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/9892976