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Sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project, "WritingFix believes this: No one writes with just the right-side of his/her brain. The brain is too complex and cross-wired to believe that. But we believe this too: Ideas that spark a writer's inspiration can start on the right-side of the brain. And for that reason, all writing activities categorized on this page celebrate a right-brained approach to beginning a piece of writing. This page celebrates approaches that are serendipitous. This page celebrates approaches that are random. Devote part of your journal or your writer's notebook to right-brained sparks."

Examples of Farcebook pages on Facebook

Writer's Digest.com home page presents you a new prompt each week. This is page for people who love to write with an eye on publishing their work. This promotes the magazine Writer's Digest There is a very active writer's community here. Also it has numerous writing contests.contests

Guides for non-fiction reading.Graphic Organizers and one page selections by grade levels

Make your lessons more dynamic by creating your own flash and smartboard  games or other cool activites. All tools are FREE. Tools included: QR code generator, Fake Facebook and Twitter pages, 

Shari Hales's favorite site.

Our Space is a set of curricular materials designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments. Through role-playing activities and reflective exercises, students are asked to consider the ethical responsibilities of other people, and whether and how they behave ethically themselves online. These issues are raised in relation to five core themes that are highly relevant online: identity, privacy, authorship and ownership, credibility, and participation. For more information, download the Introduction to Our Space, FAQ, and Road Map. All curricular units and lessons are free and available for download below. The full casebook can be downloaded using the link at the bottom of the page.

Joe Wood's (@ucdjoe) Google Maps and Earth resource page.

A free guide to using Google Docs written just for teachers/

This would be a good place to look for writing prompts. Creative Commons Licensed. See the FAQ page for questions. He allows and encourage teachers to use this stuff. This site is a one man operation and stories aren;t posted immediately. He does not approve of every story.

This is a site dedicated to the practice of using writing as a means for self improvement. There s a page of photographs that can be used as visual writing prompts.

Video tutorials for tech tools that teachers can use. Videos are short and broken down by user skill level. Click on the tabs at the top to access the numerous tools listed (On the left side of each page.) Each tool's is broken into three parts: the basic, the intermediate, advanced features. Evety video can be downloaded, remixed, shared, or used in whatever way you want to help your school.

This site allows you to make any page interactive for your students. "You can take your students to any destination on the Web, interact with them, guide them, collect and assess their work seamlessly." - Free option is limited to 50 single use student accounts. Upgrade for unlimited is $5.99 a month.

Online free  FAKE Facebook profile maker from Classtools.net

mtcorps' Wiki that contains lots of Beowulf unit resources.

Completed Farcebook example