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"PaperRater.com analyzes documents immediately, 24/7, in real-time. We provide in depth analysis to help the student improve grammar and writing. You would expect PaperRater.com to take into account all rules related to spelling and grammar. However, you may be surprised to learn that Paper Rater also helps the student to improve the document's readability, word choice, and style. Additional analysis and comments are provided that help the student to improve his/her writing, not only on this assignment, but in all future writing assignments. Coming Soon! Even though PaperRater.com is the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today, we are currently developing many additional features, including: * grammar and writing tutorials * grammar and writing webinars * ability to create a personal database online for essays and research papers * search hundreds of online databases automatically"

"My children (16, 18, 20) are writing more and more. Their friends do too… Probably not in the way some of you can imagine… nor think of as writing…but nonetheless they are writing. They are texting… 8000 texts (per month) sent and received… Can you imagine probably 5-10 words on average per text…40,000 -80,000 words per month: A collaborative monthly story of their lives in WRITING!"

I write because it is what I must do to feel like a person who has an impact on the world around her, and I believe that if we can give our students that feeling of empowerment and ownership through writing of their own world, then we will have given them and their world a gift of truth through the prism of perspectives.

"Student blogging is not a project, but a process. We are continuously striving to refine, improve and re-evaluate. As I am meeting with teachers individually, I can't stress enough the importance of READING other blogs (professional, student, blogs about your hobby, blogs about other interests you have etc.). I am trying to filter and funnel quality blogs in education, their grade level and areas of interest to them as I come across them, so they can build a quality RSS Reader. BUT.. we need their help in having a basic understanding of blogs, its pedagogical uses, as a platform of a new writing genre (digital writing) and how our blogfolios fit into your curriculum and the BIG PICTURE of LEARNING. The blogfolios are not a platform to use only for a particular subject, but should give evidence of learning for each student. "

"Everybody prefers a handwritten letter to an email. With Writing-fonts you can compose a handwritten letter online and send it to whom ever you choose. It looks completely realistic, as though you had scanned it yourself and you can even use your own handwriting! SEE EXAMPLE Upload your own personal handwriting font from your hardrive. If you don't have your own handwriting font yet you can get it made here. There are also some default handwritten fonts to choose from. Select a paper variety of your choice. Select your pen choice & whether or not you want lines on your paper. Type your letter out (or just copy & paste) Adjust the font & line spacing and size. Fill out your name & email and the recipients name & email and SEND! "

"An evolutionary writing site. Only the strongest stories survive. - Simian Simon" One Million Monkeys Typing is a community story-telling site. 1. Read Start reading. When you finish a snippet of text, click 'read more'. You will be presented with three unique paths that continue the story. If you like your options, keep reading. 2. Write If you reach an end, or simply don't like the story's trajectory, graft a new snippet and take the story's direction into your own hands. 3. Publish Publish so that others may add on to your story. If it gets ranked well and has enough offshoots it stays, if not, watch it wither and die.

When writing effective test questions, it's important to focus on writing an objective test. Ideally, add at least one test question for each Learning Object and ensure that question addresses the learning objective.

"Common Core Writing Lesson With AudioBoo: 9/11 Narrated Art"

Interactive site for improving your writing.

Write an eBook! Students (or teachers) can easily become authors of their own eBooks and upload to the iBooks App or the Stanza App on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad

Advice on writing your cover letter and resume for an application. 

"1-Year Educational iPad Pilot Complete: Students Writing Markedly Improved"

"How do you about writing the perfect blog post? Wait, does perfect even exist? Well, it does! Derek Halpern from Social Triggers shared an excellent visual representation of the key elements that make up the perfect blog post. Crafting attention-grabbing headlines, key insights, soundbite, connecting with the readers emotions and a few call-to-actions all make up an effective and well, perfect blog post."

Apple's new iPad is out, and the big question for us is how it might help teaching and learning in school. So to test it's metal, I'm writing this article on an iPad. Writing is first in line of the things students do most with their computers in school, so this should be a good test. But how about the other things at students need to do in a typical day? That's the real test. So we'll go back a few weeks to an article called A Day in the Life, and see how many of the things that Sally needed her computer for could be done with the iPad.

Planet Quest Alien Safari is a great interactive site for kids. It lets you go on an adventure by exploring different "life zones" around the world. By visiting these, you will find all different types of organisms that are living on our planet. Students get to learn about what the organisms reveal about finding life in space. So, they will learn which can survive without sunlight, which have a high radiation dose, the most acidic and the ones that live the furthest underground, for example. By clicking on a life zone on the 3D Earth, you can watch a video introduction to that organism. This website is a great classroom and research tool. You can use it to simply explore all the things around you, or use it as a starter for deeper learning and researching on a specific subject or topic. Students can really get creative by writing stories and other works of writing based on the subjects and organisms they have been learning about. This site is a great tool to use in the classroom on an interactive whiteboard. With the music and interactive nature of the site, the whole class can get involved with learning about the various organisms. Go on a safari without leaving the room!

Variety of writing prompts covering multiple curriculum areas for high school students. 

As we begin the new school year we have an opportunity to start with a clean slate. Writing is a skill that many students struggle with, from grammar, idiom and spelling to punctuation and footnotes.

What's Youth Voices All About? Youth Voices is a school-based social network that was started in 2003 by a group of National Writing Project teachers. We merged several earlier blogging projects. We have found that there are many advantages to bringing students together in one site that lives beyond any particular class. It's easier for individual students to read and write about their own passions, to connect with other students, comment on each others work, and create multimedia posts for each other. Further, it's been exciting for us to pool our knowledge about curriculum and digital literacies.

Steve Kimmi's group of 5th graders form Salina, Kansas needs your help! We want to know Why you read? Why you write? They are trying to get as many responses as we can from everyone and anyone. You can help by adding your text, audio, or video, to this Voicethread

"Write in the Middle This workshop will help teachers learn effective practices and strategies to use with middle school students in writing instruction. "