Subject Matter: Animation & Media, Graphic Art
Grades: Middle School to College

Multi-Technique Animation Software for Beginners & Hobbyists
Toon Boom has a wide selection of animation software for home users, school and professional users. I’ve reviewed other animation software programs, and it’s impressive the variety of animation software ToonBoom offers. No matter what level of [...]

Subject Matter: Acting, Debate, Drama, Writing, Storytelling
Grades: Kindergarten to High School
Bringing Cool to the School
Final Draft provides K-12 teachers a thorough workbook to utilize Final Draft and provide examples of hands-on, project based activities. And this workbook and Final Draft have been approved by the California Learning Resource Network as certified curriculum tools for [...]

Subject Matter: Art, Drawing, Media, Illustration
Grades: PreK to Elementary, maybe Middle School and High School

Drawing Fun for the Little Ones
A teacher mentioned Kerpoof in a Twitter. Hmm…what’s Kerpoof? There’s not many free, quality offerings for PreK to early elementary students, but Kerpoof fits the bill. Kerpoof is a free, colorful, online application [...]

Subject Matter: Animation, Media, Script writing, Storytelling
GradesMiddle School & Up, Business
Paperless Storytelling
Let’s say you have a story for a great movie script, game back story, or television series? At school, what if you wanted to produce your own movie (history documentary, drama, or sports), or develop a play, but it’s hard to visualize ideas [...]

Grades: High School & Above
Subject Matter: Art, Illustration, Web Media
Personal Tutor in a Book
Most computer classes don’t provide one-on-one tutoring, yet Adobe offers Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book as a great substitute.  Each lesson is well laid out to let readers explore how to manipulate powerful illustration tools.  Beginners can follow each lesson chapter-by-chapter [...]