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A Literacyhead is someone who is intensely serious about exercising creative literacy, making connections across multiple literacies, pursuing thoughtful literacy as an individual and as a teacher, and constantly searching for ideas. Literacyheads may have expertise in different areas of literacy, but all are committed to children's literacy, passionate about the arts, incessant thinkers, and display a propensity for having fun.

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by Todd Finley and published at Edutopia

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Comic master allows you to create your own short graphic novel. This is a fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-and-drop interface.

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Create an online ebook and get it published. Very much like Mixbook. You can choose from story templates and topics or create your ebook from scratch. If you choose a to use a\ntemplate students can complete a simple form to customize their story chara

"StoryJumper is a place to create and discover stories for kids. What's your story?™"

"The LF10 is a loose association of middle school students in undisclosed \nlocations in cyberspace dedicated to promoting awareness of important academic \nterms and concepts through absurd stop-motion films"

I liked the examples I looked at on this site. Students took a concept and created a video to demonstrate or explain the concept.

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Upload your paper -- get feedback on possible plagiarism and grammar issues, as well as suggestions for improvement.

Upload your paper -- get feedback on possible plagiarism and grammar issues, as well as suggestions for improvement.

"OpenZine is a social publishing platform with browser based tools that provides regular people with the essential tools to create really amazing things, display it with equal quality and enables them to socially share, control and manage their ideas. The best way to describe what OpenZine provides is by understanding how magazines work. Magazines have a staff of writers, photographers, designers, illustrators and editors that create & contribute. Here at OpenZine you create & contribute on those same principles but your resources are other OpenZine users! "

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Like etherpad

Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document.