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I was just watching a ted talk by Alan November http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJHzpEy4bE&t=11m10s where he talks about a student who uses the site, as many do to write in the style of an author. Apparently there are a lot of kids who do it, motivation is intrinsic, their writing improves but most importantly they choose to do it and it is because they are published authors writing for the world, they have an audience, who reads there stuff and interacts with it.

Writing Ballad Poems through ICT tools

The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those stories back together again. It keeps track of which paths you've finished, and which still need to be written. There's no set-up, no programming, no drawing diagrams. Just start writing and see where it takes you. Oh, and it's free to use. And once written, you can share your stories with whoever you like.

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Welcome to Playfic, the first online community that lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive, text-based games with the world.

Write a sentence for your students to un-jumble.

"Study the genre of poetry by taking part in step-by-step workshops with favorite authors. "

newspaper black up strategy for writing poems

read and submit stories based on geographic location

This might be a fun thing to do with our kids.

ThumbScribes is a platform for creating collaborative content. Co+Create haiku, poems, short stories, flash fiction, novellas, exquisite corpse and songs, real time or asynchronously with your computer, tablet, cell phone or even IM.

Martin Burrett 31 Jan 12 06:17:50 This is a superb random word generator split into nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Great for infusing a little magic into creative writing sessions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

With Fiction Express, ebook chapters are released every Friday at 3:00. The readers vote on what should happen next and the author writes the next chapter. What a cool idea!

"Simmons presents a series of creative activities that have advanced her high school students' vocabularies and impressed on them the power of words."

ipad app that allows you to create images with words instead of lines. This would be great for concrete poetry work!

Easily tell interactive stories

comic master allows you to create your own short graphic novel

Martin Burrett 03 Feb 12 12:23:11The poetry Foundation site is a great place to find poems and information about the world's most famous poets Also, download the Poetry Foundation App for iPhone and Android handsets at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/mobile/ to get a great collection of poetry and information to use in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Ever felt unsure about using Semi colons? This is a great, funny guide to how to use them