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Great Source iwrite - Students: Grammar Handbook
To edit your writing well, you need to understand some basic concepts about writing. Sometimes these concepts are called grammar, mechanics, or conventions. Sometimes they are called rules, but really these rules are just patterns that good writers try to follow so they clearly communicate what they want to say to readers.
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
With Google Docs it takes about 5 to 15 seconds for a change to make its way from your keyboard to other people's screens. Imagine if whiteboards or telephones had this kind of delay! In contrast, the EtherPad infrastructure is built to carry your every keystroke at the speed of light, limited only by the time it takes electrons to travel over a wire (such as an "ethernet" cable).
MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages
MakeBeliefsComix.com is a great space for primary aged children to begin to learn the value of story-telling in 3 panels.
Articles to support dissertation writing
a couple of really good articles this week that I wanted to share. They are mostly focused on grad students and academics, although I can see others who they might apply to.
WritingFix: Interactive Writing Prompts & Lessons for Teachers and Students
Winner of Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers 2008 award, this is a wonderful little tool that offers your students a way to get out of the “I don’t know what to write about” slump they always seem to be in.
Hypertextopia
Hypertextopia is a space where you can read and write stories for the internet. On the surface, it looks like a mind-map, but it embeds a word-processor, and allows you to publish your stories like a blog.
Inform 7
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction, a new medium for writers which began with adventure games in the late 1970s and is now used for everything from literary narrative fiction through to plotless conceptual art, and plenty more adventure gam
7 Things You Need to Know About Collaborative Writing Tools at Penn State
Collaborative writing tools are Web services that essentially function as online
word processors. Accordingly, they generally feature intuitive GUI interfaces,
basic text and document formatting options, and the ability to save either to the
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Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free
Lulu gives you the power to publish and sell books, e-books, calendars, and more.
The Bob and Rob Show: English Lessons » About Bob and Rob.
The Bob and Rob Show is a variety show for learning English. It’s aimed at intermediate to advanced learners of English.
Bob and Rob live in Japan, and they both teach English at the same university.
The Lyceum
Commonplaces are small nuggets of language that carry a lot of weight for a particular group or in society at large, at a given time. They can be slogans, bumper stickers, catch-phrases, or simply pieces of language that we use all of the time, but which
Bionic Teaching » Comma Rules and Keynote
Five enhanced presentations presented in QuickTime format; presentations present the rules for using commas in writing/grammar. Below you will find links to my first effort at making the grammar lessons more engaging than an overhead and my hand.
Web Design Content How To Write Effective Tutorials Tutorial
How to write effective tutorials that will be accepted by online tutorial websites
Calibrated Peer Review Home
Calibrated Peer Review Home. CPR is an online system to which learners submit writing assignment for peer assessment
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