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"Boost your vocabulary. See words in the context of real sentences. Learn by association and by definition."
"Grammarly is your personal proofreader and grammar coach. Check your writing for grammar, punctuation, style and more. "
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"Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
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Simple and inexpensive way to publish your own children's book.
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Pre-Grade Your Paper: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More
"PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.
PaperRater.com combines the power of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, information retrieval (IR), computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching (APM). We offer the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today."
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Easy, free and fun way to create animated movies.
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Teachers can create an online community for their students.
"Share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts. Post discussions, deadlines, homework. Instrantly create surveys for students. Keep parents informed of daily projects."
"Not only will twiducate.com give your students the web 2.0 skills they need, but also expand their reading, writing, thoughts and ideas beyond the classroom setting."
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"LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances...Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free."
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Upload all major file formats and convert them into online publications.
Can be used to:
-Create digital books, e-zines, etc.
-Students can become "published" authors
-Alternative strategy for reports and presentations
-Develop and share tutorials, study guides, etc.
-Embed projects into a class site, blog or wiki
-Connect with others that share your interests
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Upload all major file formats and convert them into online publications.
Can be used to:
-Create digital books, e-zines, etc.
-Students can become "published" authors
-Alternative strategy for reports and presentations
-Develop and share tutorials, study guides, etc.
-Embed projects into a class site, blog or wiki
-Connect with others that share your interests
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"Hundreds of creative combinations that take the writer’s block out of creative writing. Set young writers loose with prompts that focus on character (who the story is about), plot (what happens in the story), and setting (where or when the story happens)." You can also pick the story format (notebook, letter, newspaper or postcard).
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Free online plagiarism detection
Create an online magazine. Collaborate with friends. An alternative to blogging.\n\nPossible classroom connections\n-Practice the writing process.\n-Alternative strategy for book reports and research papers/ presentations.\n-Role play a newspaper bureau or magazine publisher.\n-Fund raising.\n-Spotlight a cause.
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Tumblr is an easy tool for publish your own blog. Effortlessly share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your computer or phone.
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Travel journal of school's toy mascot. Incorporates teacher and student writing and journaling. Maintained by Joan Schlegelmilch.
A fun, innovative learning environment built around videos from the NBC News Archives.
Connections to classes in history, politics, government, writing, literacty, media, and more.
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Yudu Freedom is a new on-demand publishing service that lets you turn a PDF file into a live, Flash-based Web page within minutes. Like Scribd, Yudu Freedom allows you to publish documents in an interactive, page-turning digital format and host them online at no cost.
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