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This wiki is designed to support the book, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools, by Richard Beach, Chris Anson, Lee-Ann Breuch, and Thom Swiss, published in December by Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc. 

iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.

Be creative on the go. With Strip Designer you can create your own personal comic strip right on your iPhone or iPad. Add photos from you photo album or draw your own sketches. Apply simple image filters to increase the impact of photos, and add speech balloons and text-boxes. Add stickers to get the genuine comic book feel. When you are done, save the resulting image to the iPhone's photo album, email it to friends and family or share it with Flickr, Facebook, or twitter.

StoryPagesHD™ is the iPad version of our StoryPages iPhone app. StoryPagesHD was built from the ground up for the iPad! The larger screen of the iPad makes it perfect for anyone that wants to create illustrated stories, storyboards, ad campaigns, or guides of any kind and deliver them quickly and easily. StoryPagesHD lets you create storyboard style pages with your drawing in a top panel and typed text in a bottom panel like a storyboard used during movie production. In StoryPagesHD you can add drawing-only and text-only pages to truly create an illustrated book

Taking the boring "create a booklet, brochure" class project and taking it online and shareable.

StoryRobe is a free app that students can use to make a Quicktime slideshow/movie in 3 easy steps. Students can select photos and record their voices talking about the photos or narrating a story.

A free app for the iPad/iPhone that allows students to select photos, write and/or narrate a story.