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PicLits
http://www.piclits.com PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. |
 
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Zhura
http://www.zhura.com/ Zhura ... Advanced online screenwriting tool Zhura has taken aim at an underserved market - screenwriters. |
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StoryMash
http://storymash.com/ StoryMash StoryMash, the future of collaborative fiction. A creative writing community for authors, amateur writers, readers and anyone interested in collaborative fiction and collaborative creative writing. |
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Novlet ... writing of non-linear stories in any language
http://www.novlet.com/ Novlet is a web application designed to support collaborative writing of non-linear stories in any language. With Novlet you will be able to read stories written by other users, create your own ones, and choose the plot you like most from several alternatives. Novlet stories are divided in passages, text sections usually made of a few paragraphs: users can continue stories or add alternative storylines by creating their passages after existing ones. The only limit is your fantasy. |
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Essay Map
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/essaymap/ Essay Map ... to help you plan and write your essay. |
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EtherPad : Real Time (Writing) Collaboration
http://etherpad.com/ EtherPad : Real Time (Writing) Collaboration Other "real-time" editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document to everyone every 15 seconds. This creates a noticeable lag that gets in the way of collaboration. You start editing something, only to find 10 seconds later that someone else deleted it. Etherpad updates every copy of the document every half second. This 30x increase in speed changes the experience completely. Your edits hardly ever clash with other users'. So you work confidently instead of tentatively. Why doesn't Google Docs update every half second like Etherpad does? Because it's really, really hard. We're fairly experienced programmers, and to make this work we had to solve problems that, as far as we know, no one had solved before. |
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35 Best Tools for Writing Online
http://mashable.com/2008/12/13/writers-toolbox/ 35 Best Tools for Writing Online "Whether you’re new to the world of authorship or a veteran trying to make the most of Web services and applications, there are a number of online tools for writers of all types. From blogging platforms to networking hotbeds, and job boards to real-world gatherings, and more, the supply of utilities is comprehensive, to say the least. But finding them all can be hard-going, so we’ve taken the liberty to make the discovery process easier by arranging our top finds here for your perusal. Here are 35 of the best social media tools for writers." |
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WhatAreKidsSaying
http://www.whatarekidssaying.com WhatAreKidsSaying was created to give kids and teens an opportunity to express what’s on their minds. Here they can share their own writings, and also discover what other kids and teens, across the country, and also around the world, are saying about the things that matter most to them, without traveling an inch! |
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Write Or Die
http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html Write Or Die: Putting the "Prod" in Productivity Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences. The idea is to instill in the would-be writer with a fear of not writing. We do this by employing principles taught in Introduction to Psychology. Anyone remember Operant Conditioning and Negative Reinforcement? |
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PocketMod
http://pocketmod.com/ The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDAs are too expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. With the PocketMod, you can carry around the days notes, keep them organized in any way you wish, then easily transfer the notes to your PDA, spreadsheet, or planner. The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card. |
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Write a Book in a Day
http://deangroom.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/write-a-book-in-a-day/ Write a Book in a Day Day 1 of the ‘Book in a Day’ creative writing project with 9th graders ended in an almost party like atmosphere from the 60 students who took part today. The final hour had 60 students in one big room, furiously working in groups to finalise their work and publish it. |
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Writing Fun
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html Writing Fun ... worth a visit |
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Writing with Writers
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/ Writing with Writers Rodman Philbrick will give you tips and strategies for writing a good book review To be a journalist, you need more than just the facts. Take this workshop to learn how to write an effective news story. Join Jane Yolen as she gives a step-by-step guide to writing myths Virginia Hamilton will help you describe events through your writing by paying attention to detail. Biography Writing | Descriptive Writing | Folktale Writing | Mystery Writing | Myth Writing | News Writing | Poetry Writing | Speech Writing | Writing a Book Review | |
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Web 2.0 Technology in Teaching EFL Writing
http://tinyurl.com/5me32w Web 2.0 Technology in Teaching EFL Writing PowerPoint Presentation Use of Groupware, Weblog and BlogCasting |
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Writing, Technology and Teens (Pew Report)
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/247/report_display.asp Writing, Technology and Teens Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them. |
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Essay writing skills
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/essay_writing_skills Essay writing skills Writing an essay can be challenging, especially when you have multiple assignments due at the same time. But there a few tricks that can make the whole process that much easier. This section will help you figure out what your essay question is really asking, and then break the question down into easy tasks. |
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Writing ... with a Diary (online website)
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/blog/index.html Writing ... with a Diary (online website) .. screencast tutorial for "Open Diary" |
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How We Became Writers
http://howwebecamewriters.com/ How We Became Writers How We Became Writers answers the question that most writers get all the time. |
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Why We Write
http://whywewriteseries.wordpress.com/ Why We Write ... a series of essays by prominent - and not so prominent - TV and Film writers… and by people like you: writers and those who hope someday to call themselves writers. Conceived by Charlie Craig and Thania St. John, the campaign hopes to inspire and inform all writers. |
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How to Teach Handwriting
http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/ifc071106.html How to Teach Handwriting Make handwriting instruction part of every school day. Included: Resources for handwriting programs, lessons, worksheets, and more. |
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Inkwell (Apple)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/inkwell/ Use your favorite input device instead of the keyboard. If your tool of the trade is the graphics tablet, let Inkwell save you time when you need to add text to an illustration or layout. Just write, and Mac OS X turns your handwritten scribbles into typed text in any application. Inkwell lets you write wherever you want to on the screen, and the recognized text just flows to the current insertion point, as if you’d typed it on a keyboard. |
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abcteach : handwriting
http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/handwriting/ abcteach : handwriting D'Nealian | Zaner Bloser | Left-Handed Friendly Handwriting Practice | |
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10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know ....
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004175.html 10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know About Writing |
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Writers Workshop
http://www.teachersfirst.com/unitlist.cfm Writer's Workshop is a technique for making daily writing a part of the primary curriculum. The unit offers numerous strategies for incorporating writing into daily classroom routine in various subjects, and includes many examples showing what to emphasize in building a love of writing and communication in even the youngest students. Additional materials show how to extend Writer's Workshop throughout the elementary years. |
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Writing Sample Analyzer
http://resources.aellalei.com/tools/writer/sample.php Writing Sample Analyzer This writing sample analyzer takes a sample of your writing and then calculates the number of sentences, words, and characters in your sample. As it's calculating these statistics it makes estimates as to how many syllables are present in each word. Using these numbers, it then calculates the Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, which are three of the most common readability algorithms. Simply supply a sample of your writing up to 5,000 characters and then click "Analyze." |
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DiffNote : graphical diff tool
http://www.polisource.com/diffnote/ DiffNote : graphical diff tool Enables you to compare the differences between two text files. You can compare both local and remote files. |
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Orangoo : Spelling Checker
http://orangoo.com/spell/ Orangoo : Spelling Checker This application lets you spell correct from any system or computer that has Internet access. It uses the Google spell checker - probably one of the best spell checkers around! |
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Xanga
http://www.xanga.com Xanga is a community of online diaries and journals. You can easily start your own free journal, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too! |
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Fast Blog It
http://fastblogit.com/ Fast Blog It FastBlogIt is a collaborative internet Mind for internet cybernauts. It brings together various trains of thought, subjects, text, pictures & other media self-organized by it's authors & groups using folksonomy tags and other features. Another way of saying it is that FastBlogIt is a hyper-threaded folksonomous wiki-blog |
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Writers and Editors : Nature of the Work
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos089.htm Writers and Editors : Nature of the Work Do you want to be a professional writer? |
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Glypho
http://www.glypho.com/ Glypho : Here's how it works: 1. Wordsmith jots down story ideas 2. Users around the world give character and plot ideas 3. Hummer + others write the first chapter 4. Users review and vote to select the best contribution for the first chaper ... and the story continues. |
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The Biography Maker
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm The Biography Maker The Biography Maker is like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam" to make it work well. The Biography Maker is meant to inspire lively story telling and vivid writing which will make your readers want to know more about your subject. |
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Dasher
http://www.l4l.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=1 Free software for writing without a keyboard David MacKay demonstrated Dasher to us at the BETT 2006 Special Needs fringe - it was nothing short of amazing - this video is 65 mb but worth waiting for... Main Dasher website is at http://www.dasher.org.uk/ |
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ICT Skills relating to writing
http://tinyurl.com/dau68 ICT Skills relating to writing at difference age groups Year 3 to Year 6 |
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Writeboard - Online Collaboration Application
http://www.writeboard.com/ Writeboard - Online Collaboration Application Writeboard is completely free. You can create as many writeboards as you'd like and invite as many people to collaborate on the writeboards. There are no limits. Write a business letter, copy for your website, a marketing brochure, or a product description, or a weblog post, or a song, or a poem, or an idea, or an essay, or a book chapter, or whatever else you might normally write in your email program, text editor, or word processor. Unlike a Word document that's stored at your office on one computer, you can get to your writeboards from any computer in the world with an internet connection and a modern web browser. |
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Writing for the Web
http://m.fasfind.com/wwwtools/m/2688.cfm?x=0&rid=2688 Writing for the Web There's general agreement that writing for the Web is not the same as writing for print - though perhaps we should also consider that much online writing was initially written for the printed page, and in a nice final irony, a piece is often printed back to paper for easier reading. In this edition of WWWTools for Education they consider the factors that make writing for the Web so different, how writers can optimise their use of the online environment, and the contributions of educators and software developers in developing appropriate strategies, skills and tools to help them on their way. |
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Circle Plot Diagram
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=26 The Circle Plot Diagram can be used as a prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure as well as a postreading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. |
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ENG 102: English Composition II
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rwisnesk/ENG112/eng112.html A continuation of ENG 101, the objectives of ENG 102 are to enhance analytical and argumentative essay writing, build on critical reading and writing skills, and do extensive research using a university research library. To accomplish these objectives, we will work on recognizing different analysis techniques; becoming familiar with library resources and research skills; and, annotating and reviewing different types of sources. We will also focus extensively on how to be better critics of our own writing, and how to be aware of the processes we utilize in writing analytical essays and researching topics. Lastly, we will work on properly documenting sources and avoiding plagiarism. |
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Letter Generator
http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/ Letter Generator Learn the parts of a letter and how to write your own letter. |
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WritingFix : Interactive Writing Prompts
http://www.writingfix.com/ Interactive Writing Prompts WritingFix, we believe, is the only site of its kind. It was designed by writers, teachers, and students...to spark the imaginations of writers, teachers and students...of all ages. Most on-line sites for writers contain long and rather uninteresting lists of topics a person could write about. WritingFix has taken this idea to the next level; we've transformed good writing ideas into interactive on-line word games. |
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Christopher Jarmans Handwriting Resources
http://quilljar.users.btopenworld.com/content.html Christopher Jarmans Handwriting Resources Schemes | Advice | Rules | Fonts | Joined-Up | Write | Writing | |
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Kindergarten : Handwriting Worksheet Maker
http://www.readingkey.com/hwriting-t/index.htm Kindergarten : Handwriting Worksheet Maker The standard Kindergarten - Grade 1 handwriting style teaches "true" printing skills. It is also the letter style most often used in early elementary reading books, thereby helping children with visual word memorization of elementary book reading words. |
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Microsoft Word ... tutorials
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/techtorials.shtml Microsoft Word ... tutorials Creating Test Forms with Microsoft Word | Editing With Microsoft Word | Holiday Worksheets With Word | How to Make Trading Cards With Word | Make A Class Newsletter With Word | Make a Concentration Game with Word | Seven Wonders of Word | |
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ESL Handwriting Worksheet Wizard
http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com ESL Handwriting Worksheet Wizard The Writing Wizard automatically makes handwriting practice worksheets for children. The one-word and multi-word wizards give you flexibility in editing your worksheets to suit your students needs - and it's all for free! Just type in the words you want and click the create worksheet button - easy! |
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Lots of Interactive/multimedia tools to help with writing
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp Lots of Interactive/multimedia online tools to help with writing HIGHLY RECOMMENDED |
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Enhancing the Writing Process Using the Internet
http://tilttv.blogspot.com/2005/06/tilt-episode-1-enhancing-writing.html Enhancing the Writing Process Using the Internet Video Blog at TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology .. supporting teacher continuing professional development. "In this episode we review some websites which can help students and teachers plan their writing, learn new writing techniques and structures, share their writing with others, and generate excitement and enthusiasm for the writing process in meaningful ways." |
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Writing Esentials
http://www.customresearchpapers.us/swc/writing-essentials/ Writing Esentials | 10 Tips For Writing A Winning Resume | 7 Essential Letter-Writing Strategies | E-mail 101: The Dos and Don'ts | 7 Secrets For Beating Writer's Block | My Top Ten Tips for Exam Success | Why Students Turn to Custom Writing Services | Use Real-Life Templates For Writing Success | Writing Business Letters That Get The Job Done | The Perils Of Using Jargon | Punctuation? Why Bother? | |
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EveryAuthor
http://www.everyauthor.com/ EveryAuthor Our goals are to provide our visitors with days, weeks and years worth of extraordinary literature for online reading, and to stimulate the creative writing process through our constructively critical writer's forums. |
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Keyboarding Killed The Handwriting Star
http://www.laptopical.com/04551-laptop-keyboard.html Keyboarding Killed The Handwriting Star: Are Laptops Undoing Elementary Education? Computers have such a presence in schools today that some experts believe they are a threat to education - especially the teaching of handwriting. |
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Handwriting at abcteach : worksheets
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/handwriting/ Handwriting at abcteach : worksheets D'Nealian | Zaner Bloser | Left-Handed Friendly | Handwriting Practice | |
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