Part A- Brainstorm Session

Here are the meeting parts for our first group project. I am not, unfortunately, featured in the meeting as I am way love here in Poland, and the rest of my group is in the US. First impressions is that I am working with excellent people(Jen and Dilly)! Thanks to both of them for being so SUPER flexible!!!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Here are my thoughts after I listened to all three of the sessions (3 as they used Skype and Jing and Jing is limited to 30 minutes).

• I am so glad you picked ToonDoo!! What fun!!!
• Toondoo is totally free which is awesome! My kids have done a few projects which are fun (just Toons) and they have really liked it. I did want to check out the book part as the Toons seemed sort of short.... Which was a bit limited..
• I do have a pro-version of Camtasia so I think I could put together a bunch of Jings if we wanted to split up ToonDoo into chunks and each take a chunk. Then we Jing that part and I can stitch them together into one movie.....Just a thought...
• An intial "chunking" of ToonDoo (not necessarily in order)... Looks like this: 1). Toons (how to create cartoons-this is easy, my fifth graders showed me to day although there are lots of little pieces), 2). Books (a lot like Toons but I think you can have MORE, you do need to make Toons first then put them into the books), 3). The Basics of ToonDoo (how to sign up, the profile, Tools, the help Wiki) 4). Traitr a place to make characters 5). ImagineR- a place to edit and play with uploaded photos or images 6). doodleR- A place to draw.
• I am great at Prezi and I am getting really good at Camtasia, so assign me whatever you need :)
• I have been playing with ToonDoo, one downfall is the loading time...But making cartoons is EASY and fun! The tools are really good, once you are in it is EASY!
• We are meeting again on Wednesday for a follow up.
• Here is a link to one of my literature circles blogs where they used ToonDoo to describe scenes from their book. Feel free to comment on them as a friend of mine :) They would dig that!

Some tutorials I found:

A Teachers Guide to Toondoo- a WordPress blog that introduces the basics...

A good pdf for a reference on the basics

Under Ten Minutes-very cool! In a nice British Accent :) This is a great example of what our presentation could look like!