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[|AdLit.org][[image:adlit-logo.png align="right" link="http://www.adlit.org/"]]
AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers Global economies, new technologies, and exponential growth in information are transforming our society. Today's employees engage with a technology-driven, diverse, and quickly changing "flat world."1 English/language arts teachers need to prepare students for this world with problem solving, collaboration, and analysis — as well as skills with word processing, hypertext, LCDs, Web cams, digital streaming podcasts, smartboards, and social networking software — central to individual and community success.

e.g. story map strategy and graphic organizer

[|Adventure Island]
Adventure Island was created by Simon Widdowson, who was Digital Teacher in Residence with Writers for the Future.

Artisan
create a childrens book print or send by email

[|The Art of Story Telling]
[|Experience a Story]: Listen to stories, read and view pictures inspired by our collections created by visitors like you. [|Tell a Story]: Become a storyteller as you write and record a story inspired by works in the museum’s collection. [|Picture a Story]: Create your own work of art using objects and characters found in some of the museum’s most noteworthy paintings. Enjoy, and let your creativity flow through pictures and words!

Choose your own Adventure Stories
[|Larry Ferlazzo] [|The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories] Posted at 11:43 pm under [|best of the year], [|writing] A key concept that’s important for students to learn is the importance of engaging with the text — not just being a passive reader.

[|Protagonize] free online website designed for people to write these kinds of stories.. It’s very easy to create the stories. However, there is some content not appropriate for classroom use available on the site.

[|Quandry]

Lesson Plan Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
 * Quandary** is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze". [|Read Write Think]


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[|Create a newInteractive Story] || [|writing .com Interactive Stories]

**Interactive Stories** are "choose your own ending" stories started by an Author and continued by any Writing.Com member that wishes to participate. At the end of each chapter, readers are given a few plot choices and must choose the direction of the story. When you come to the end of a storyline, it's your turn to add a chapter! ||

=Digital Story Telling=

[|Elizabethan Script Generator]
Press the "Curse!" button to be randomly insulted in Elizabethan (Shakespearian) language. There are 388944 possible curses. These are not actually found in any of William Shakespeare's plays, but they are of the language he used.

[|Five Sprockets]
vScripter is free, secure, online story development and screenwriting software . Properly format screenplays and other scripts with tab-enter accelerators, character location memory, shot lists, and more. Daily backups. Script protection with ProtectRite

=[|Innanimate Alice]=

A teaching resource for digital literacy, stimulus for story telling and creativity that is FREE to download. It has been developed in partnership between BradField and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and its schools. “Inanimate Alice” the multi award-winning interactive audio-visual narrative from new-media production house the BradField Company (BradField) has been identified by Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) as delivering compelling new media suitable for an education audience. Seen by over 1 million viewers (estimate), it is an aid to creativity in the classroom, assisting in story telling and literacy and can be a free and major contribution to the creative curriculum that has been welcomed by teachers accessing it. [|Example of student use]

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[|Literary Club]

 * [|Bone From a Dry Sea] (from a factual quiz to thinking activity)
 * [|Socratic Seminar Rubric] (.pdf)

Magnets
Fuzzwhich magnetic words on a fridge

[|MixedInk][[image:b.gif align="right" link="http://www.mixedink.com/main.php"]]
op-eds & letters to the editor, text for petitions, mission statements, questions & comments for politicians & stars, news articles, blog posts, and lots more.
 * Together, people write**

[|Panraven]
lets you upload digital photos and then arrange them in a " book" with words and music and video if you'd like to tell a story. You can share the stories online, link to them, have them printed in a hardcover book. Great for digital storytelling, writing, visual literacy, special projects and presentations

[|Piclits]
drag a drop a word to make a piclit Inspired picture writing with word prompts save, share, email.

[|Pimpampum] Phrasr
write a phrase an get the images to match

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templates will give you the first few pages of a book idea that you can complete on your own. Start now with a few empty pages. Some random props and scenes will be selected to help you start.

[|Storymash]
- Hone your creative writing skills. Collaborate on new stories or branch an existing fiction story in a different direction by writing the next chapter or even a chapter into its middle! - participate in the collaborate writing community. Vote for your favorite chapters and influence which plots get written next. Provide your feedback, praise, and criticism to authors about their creative writing in discussions attached to every chapter. - earn money for every chapter you write and self-publish on StoryMash. StoryMash rewards your creative writing talents by sharing at least 50% of the advertisement revenue. - [|Register] to be a new StoryMash author

Webdocs
create a visual text using pictures, videos, apps and text

=Writing General=

=[|Writing fun]= text organizers to assist students with the writing porcess

Writing Prompts

[|zhura][[image:img_logo_header.gif align="right" link="http://www.zhura.com/"]]
Being online screenwriting software, Zhura provides a number of cool features to support your creative efforts. It even helps you with playwriting, sitcoms, audioplays, and comic book scripts .

zooburst
create a pop up book

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Zopler
@http://zopler.com/

Zopler is a social network where writers, authors and students can easily collaborate on writing stories together as a group.

start a story with as little as one sentence and as many as 1,000 words

[|Speakaboos] - Speakaboos is a site that brings classic children's stories to life! Stories with characters like Chicken Little and Goldilocks come to life through celebrity performances. Famous performers like Kevin Bacon and Nick Cannon are just some of the few celebrities that lend their voices. With beautiful illustrations and original music, children can develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment. [|Literactive] – This site is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and 1stgrade students. Not only are there stories, but there are activities and supplemental reading material, as well. An ESL version allows users to translate stories into another language. There is even a section of interactive poetry which includes some of the most famous poems ever written! All you have to do is sign up for free and you can download these stories and more! [|Between the Lions] – This site, from PBS Kids, is aimed at getting kids “wild” about reading. With stories, games, video clips and more, there is no reason why they shouldn’t be excited to explore! The stories vary in format. Some are read by a narrator, some are interactive and some are prerecorded readings from a children’s book. Whatever you choose to do with this site, there is sure to be something educational and entertaining for your little ones. [|StoryPlace] – Storyplace is the ultimate digital library for students. This interactive site offers preschool and elementary stories and activities. The site aims to give children the experience of going to a library, without actually leaving the computer! With themes like “Dinos Rock” and “The Three Country Critters,” kids will be reading and having fun in no time!