Creative+Writing+sites

=Creative Writing sites=

We invite you to look at some of these website links when you have some time available. Some of these sites have ideas you can use if you are able to take
your learners to a computer room at school.

1. This is a collection of ten great sites for creating digital media and newspapers. []

2. A blogpost about creating digital magazines and newspapers. []

3. This is a wiki that has a wonderful collection of tools one can use to create online stories. It also has lists of many other tools such as audio tools, slideshow tools, drawing tools etc. http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Writing+Tools

4. This is a Google Documents presentation highlighting 20 interesting ways to support writing in the classroom. It has been put together by a teacher called Tom Barrett who has collected ideas from many different teachers. []

5. Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make to share on the internet. You could use these in a computer lesson. []

6. As a teacher you can create one of these online creative writing books for each member of your class quite easily. There’s no charge, and there’s plenty of clipart to illustrate the stories. []

7. This is a ‘Young Novelist’s workbook’ for young learners. It could be used for a creative writing club, for example. []

8. This is the Sciptfrenzy’s young writer’s programme and it looks very interesting to try out. []

9. This is a collection of book 'trailers' to inspire reading. This is a very different way of doing a book report. []

10. This is a book report from a grade 5 student in his blog which links to the booktrailer site mentioned above. []

11. Plenty of ideas for doing book reports with a difference []

12. This site provides 729 story starters for children. []

13. This story starter site is for people of all ages and has over 1 million ideas. []

14. Write an instant interactive monster story []

15. Create interactive comics []

16. Fun fairytale generator. Great for narratives!! Looks great []

17. Character Generator []

18. A comic maker []

19. Jenny Eather’s writing for fun new site []

20. Creative writing tools and examples of their use in digital story telling http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

21. Literacy circles wiki – a collection of book summaries []

22. Growing your own stories from a story plant []

23. 'Fiction with a twist' blog. These are ideas about narrative writing []

24. Write collaborative, group stories very easily in the computer room. PrimaryPad is a web based word processor that allows students and teachers to work together in real time. [|http://primarypad.com]

25. Inspiring ways of using primary pad in the classroom []

26. Inspiring writing []

27. This looks like a page where one can create text and turn it into a web page. []

28. This is a brainstormer to get a learner thinking. []

29. A book to help you share your photo resources. []