like turning the Gettysburg address into a Manga strip or something
My trouble with easy "creative apps" like Animoto or GoAnimate. Student (more often than not in my experience) superficially engage with content.
Rather, let's focus on what type and quality of thinking we actually want students to exhibit and practice, and then attempt to match an activity and edtech.
Always try to anticipate what students will be thinking when they are doing the assignment. Doing so may make it clear that some assignments designed with one purpose in mind will achieve another.
This is checking assignment validity, right? Does it achieve the desired results? Are they thinking about what they should be thinking about?
Along the same assessment design train of thought... an assignment/activity/cooltechthing reliability check will bring in that professional teacher aspect of knowing your students and making changes that increase the reliability of the task - that students care about it because it is interesting/perplexing to them.