Classroom-Friendly Websites and Apps for Making Comics

Kids' drawings come alive with stickers, color, and voice recordings

Bottom Line: Lots of art tools and voice recording help kids unleash their visual and verbal storytelling.

Leap tall buildings with creative audio and visual storytelling

Bottom Line: Kids create comic book-style stories and color pages on this easy app.

Magically easy way to create and publish digital books and multimedia

Bottom Line: This is a top-quality creation tool that lets students of many ages and abilities publish their own digital books.

Popular comics platform puts students' focus on creation

Bottom Line: This is a platform with the potential to motivate students, getting them to share subject knowledge in a way that blends art and literacy.

Simple comic creator makes building stories fun

Bottom Line: This simple tool for creating comics is a fun option for a range of class projects.

One-stop animation tool for beginners through experts

Bottom Line: Accessible entry into animation for beginning students, but with enough depth to satisfy more advanced artists.

Comic creation tool has wealth of resources, busy design

Bottom Line: While it feels a little dated and disorganized, Make Beliefs Comix retains its charm and can promote creativity and self-expression.

Creative tool for visual storytelling through comics

Bottom Line: Comic Life helps students apply their understanding with a creative approach, but guidelines are needed to ensure success.

Beautifully designed digital sketchbook for any age

Bottom Line: The simplicity and effectiveness of the app make this a powerful sketch and note-taking tool for the iPad.

Easy and fun way to create personalized, comic-book-style stories

Bottom Line: Strip Designer is a versatile media-creation tool that can support a range of learning goals for any subject of interest.

Engage kids with basic but versatile storytelling tool

Bottom Line: Though it isn't loaded with special features, there's enough going on here to provide learning for kids of all ages.

Build slick, engaging whiteboard animations with Web-based tool

Bottom Line: A stellar -- if somewhat pricey -- creation tool for the classroom.

Slick video slideshow tool lets kids tell stories and share them

Bottom Line: Anything that happens during school can be turned into an engaging video slideshow.

Impressive creation tool for teens serious about art

Bottom Line: Gives students easy access to professional tools for creating digital art.

Liven up communication with cartoon-style custom avatars

Bottom Line: Not necessarily a tool designed with education in mind, but tons of possible -- and fun -- classroom uses for creative teachers.