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Write your own scripts and plots using this web 2.0 tool.

Write screenplays in your browser. Plotbot is web-based screenwriting software. You can write your script with as many or as few people as you want

"It's easy to get intimidated when you start thinking "I have only 25 minutes to write my essay for the SAT"."

"Convert Microsoft Word to plain text Most of the time when I'm writing content for the web (for this blog, or a forum comment, or whatever), I'll write in Microsoft Word for the spell check and other features that aren't in a standard textarea widget, and then I'll cut and paste into the form on the site. The problem is that this carries all of the high characters ("smart-quotes" and the like) that MS Word makes straight through to the site - and most sites aren't set up to handle them. They expect plain ("Latin") text. A solution: this script converts text copied from MS word into plain text. Paste your input into the top box, press clean, and the input will be scrubbed and sent to the lower box."

Collection of mindmapping sites to ease stress of writing.

activities to use to help with creative writing.

Great collection of apps for elementary students. 

Elementary student writing project for students around the globe. K-5 is the targeted grade level.

Collaborative story writing and illustrating for students k-5.

The NTFS-3G driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, QNX, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 file systems.

"Applications for Education: You can assign Quill activities to your students through your teacher dashboard. Once you create an account on Quill you can create a class and distribute assignments. Your class will have a code that your students enter when they sign in to use Quill. After creating your class you can start to browse through the pre-made Activity Packs. Each Activity Pack is labeled according to skill type, grade level, and Common Core standards."

Use zoom.it to take photo and zoom in & pan around.  Could be a great tool for discussions or even writing prompts.

"The Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs."

Sometimes, when typing, you have a need to use extra symbols that are not found on the standard keyboard. Maybe you're typing in a foreign language, or you are trying to write a mathematical sentence. Whatever the reason, some extra symbols can be of use.