16. The computerized method of claim 13 , further comprising: surfacing a representation of one or more of the teaching animations stored in the active state; receiving a user-initiated input indicating the representation of a teaching animation stored in the active state; and automatically launching the indicated teaching animation.
17. The computerized method of claim 16 , wherein launching the teaching animation comprises: recognizing a portion of the content within a content-entry area of the writing-pad tool is indicated by a cursor tool; and launching the teaching animation associated with an editing action of the one or more editing actions within the content-entry area, wherein launching comprises: (a) applying a manual gesture, replicated by the teaching animation, to the indicated portion of content; and (b) looping the application of the replicated manual gesture to the indicated portion of content until a user-initiated indication to cease is received.