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Jottify
http://jottify.com/
Jottify
Jottify is an online community which allows people to share, discuss and sell anything they have written.
In the same way that sites like Flickr and YouTube let you share photographs and video, Jottify is a place for you to share writing, enjoy other people's writing, and potentially commercialise your work.
You can share and sell your work, follow the progress of other writers, and get your work noticed. With our store, you can publish your work in e-reader format, at the touch of a button. Jottify will format the work, you just have to pick a sale price and we pass to you 70% commission for every sale you make.

Teaching Handwriting
http://bit.ly/mxdlaN
Teaching Handwriting

Great Tech Tools for Writing
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/77462259/Great-Tech-Tools-for-Writing
Great Tech Tools for Writing

How writing by hand makes kids smarter
http://bit.ly/fFeGNB
How writing by hand makes kids smarter
Younger Americans are typing or texting more and writing less, even in school — and that's a problem when it comes to brain development

Write On! for Kids .. in a #LiveBinder
http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=30905

Write On! for Kids

TV Tropes
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
TV Tropes
This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction.
Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés.
The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting.
We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them. The wiki is called "TV Tropes" because TV is where we started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to include other media.
Tropes transcend television. They reflect life. Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, does its best to reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere.

How my handwriting has changed since Kindergarten
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/handwriting
How my handwriting has changed since Kindergarten .. graphics

Writing Rubrics
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/rubrics.cfm
Writing Rubrics

You CanTeach Writing
http://www.you-can-teach-writing.com
Resources and strategies for teaching expository writing in middle school and beyond. Offers free e-zine, freeteacher forums that require no registration. Site host is a college writing teacher with long list of publishing credits.

One Word
http://oneword.com/
One Word ... simple ... you’ll see one word at the top of the following screen.
.. you have sixty seconds to write about it.

How Handwriting Trains the Brain
http://bit.ly/dtgf52
How Handwriting Trains the Brain

Student self assessment rubric - Writing
http://www.mcasmentor.com/rubricscheck.pdf
Student self assessment rubric - Writing
Students can evaluate their own written work, using this simple checklist, clear and start over.

Ways to Support Writing in the Classroom
http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/

What is Xanga? (review)
http://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/INSITE/Xanga
What is Xanga? (review)
The original purpose of Xanga was to share book and movie reviews. It slowly developed and is now used for social networking and sharing blogs, videos, audio, and photos with others.
Educational Lesson Plans
| Elementary | Secondary | Post Secondary |

Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

Bedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition
http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/
Bedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition
A multi-author blog that provides college and university composition instructors with teaching ideas from leading scholars, authors, and editors.

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.

Zhura
http://www.zhura.com/
Zhura ... Advanced online screenwriting tool
Zhura has taken aim at an underserved market - screenwriters.

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.

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.

Essay Map
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/essaymap/
Essay Map ... to help you plan and write your essay.

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.

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."

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!

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?

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.

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.

Writing Fun
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html
Writing Fun ... worth a visit

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 |

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

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.

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.

Writing ... with a Diary (online website)
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/blog/index.html
Writing ... with a Diary (online website) .. screencast tutorial for "Open Diary"

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.

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.

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.

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.

abcteach : handwriting
http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/handwriting/
abcteach : handwriting
D'Nealian | Zaner Bloser | Left-Handed Friendly Handwriting Practice |

10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know ....
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004175.html
10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know About Writing

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.

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."

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.

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!

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!

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

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?

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.

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.

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/