Scratch is a free programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed with learning and education in mind. As young people create and share projects in Scratch, they develop important design and problem-solving skills, learning how to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch can be used in many different settings: schools, museums, community centres, and homes. It is intended especially for 8- to 16-year-olds, but younger children can work on Scratch projects with their teachers, and college students use Scratch in some introductory computer science classes.

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, Nokia, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consorti and so far 984,040 projects have been upload in its page!

 

 

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ComicStripCreator is a free application where you have the opportunity to make your own comics. It’s really very simple! You can build your comic strips in few minutes…Add and manipulate text and graphics with Cosy Comic Strip Creator. You can export your comic strips and share them online or printed.
Comic Strip Creator is also used in the Educomics project (www.educomics.org) from schools in five countries (Greece, UK, Spain, Italy and Cyprus). EduComics is a European Union Comenius education project under the Life Long Learning Programme (ref num 142424-2008-GR-COMENIUS-CMP)
So what about creating a common comics book with your partners from eTwinning? Isn’t this a brilliant idea?