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How often have you heard students say, 'I can't think of anything to write'? The fact is, we can assign incredibly specific, prescriptive prompts, but what does that teach students about creativity?This is where Interactive Writing Tools come in. As I teacher, I have found that these low tech, Internet-based writing tools inspire the most reluctant writers while enabling the most gifted writers to really stretch their imaginations. More importantly, these writing sites will help you to build students' critical thinking skills which are necessary for effective writing.Every site featured here is student friendly, easy to navigate, and absolutely free! I've limited the suggestions to those I've personally used, but I absolutely welcome recommendations for others. Enjoy these tools, and let me know how you've used them!

Lots of great tools here...

Zoho offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration. Zoho's online office tools include a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation tool, hosted wiki, notebook, CRM etc

Whether working individually or collaboratively, Webspiration is the new online visual thinking tool. With integrated diagram and outline views you can think visually, structure your work effectively and express your ideas in the ways that communicate best.

Don't even have to log in, you can do FREE photo editing, this might be a tool we can use with our students!

This is the coolest thing since sliced bread, I use this almost everyday. It is templates for quizzes, activities (games) and surveys. The best instructional tool ever.

Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.

This website is awesome. It is a collection of website from a lot of different sources that contain web elements appropriate for student learning.

This is NOT a doodling program, it is a polling and scheduling program. Simple, free and integrates into other apps.

Lots of flashcard sets already set up here...

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Seems to allow students to turn in assignments and show assignments, FREE

Notice how you can double click on any word and get a definition.