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What if you could make a movie by just writing a story? Now you can. Plotagon is a playful new app that makes stories come to life with you in the director's chair. Write your story, choose characters, and press play - it's that simple.

"Perspecs is a new app that aims to provide users with three sides to every news story. On Monday through Friday the free Android and iPhone app offers a selection of articles about current topics in the news. The topics could be breaking news or they could be topics of a more evergreen nature like national education systems."

Create your own story in a Google doc. Add music. Watch a video of it being created.

Tell your story with Thematic Using your own photos, its free and easy to share

Create stories from clipart and share them with others.

inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It's perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.

Booktrack is a new way for students to read stories and texts accompanied by a movie-style soundtrack. Students also create Booktracks, using their own writing or works being studied in school. This short video provides a great overview of Booktrack Classroom and how it can produce immediate results with your students.

"COMMONLIT is a collection of poems, short stories, news articles, historical documents, and literature for classrooms."

A before reading strategy to increase student engagement with text and comprehension.  In this strategy students write a paragraph from a list of words given to them by their teacher.  Students must use the words in the order they were given in the list. Students are asked to share their paragraphs with the class.  Then students read the assigned text and make revisions to their original paragraph.

Whether you're a teacher or a student, in K-12, high school, higher education or professional training, you can use Moovly to explain your subject, tell your story and engage your audience.

Google Tour Builder allows users to tell stories using Google maps, images, videos, and text. It is a fantastic tool for students to use to show what they know about different topics. Maybe students are summarizing the chapters of a book and each placemark represents a different chapter. Or perhaps students create a tour to share summaries of current events happening around the world.