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Tikatok is a free creative community for kids under 13 where they can write, illustrate, and share their original stories, and have them printed out into real hardcover and paperback books. It was developed by two mothers to encourage the imagination and creativity of their children and children everywhere.

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This highly amusing look at the world of Web 2.0 as viewed through the INTERNET-AGE WRITING SYLLABUS AND COURSE OVERVIEW is a salutary reminder to those of us who have latently become besotted by the wonders of social networking that "All that Twitters is not told".

As Mr McSweeney suggests the course is the perfect antidote to those who are worried what to do;

"As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering ......."

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This Google Doc initiated by Mark Warner is a collection of ideas to use for stimulating writing that includes examples. It draws on a range of online as well as offline activities and applications. Use it to get some great new ideas or even better add and share a couple of ideas of your own.

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The ReadWriteThink site maintained by the International Reading Association in conjunction with the US National Council for the Teachers of English offers,
"a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills."

They include organisers, games, writing frameworks, creation tools amongst many others. Many are perfect for use on IWB's and laptops, netbooks and the like

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Dvolver is another online cartoon based movie making tool. Totally menu driven you select from pre-loaded backgrounds, skies, characters and plot line. You then add the speech bubbles before the movie is mixed. YOu can then elect to email the movie to a friend after which you are supplied with an embed code.

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One of a range of great tools from the US National Council for the Teaching of English, this flash interactive helps students plan a story.

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If you could put a number of items into a box that described your life, what would you include? What do you think would be included if you were a Victorian Servant or Queen Elizabeth I. If you lived during the English Civil War, what items would you include to make a case for, or against, the parliamentarians? And what if you were an abolitionist and wanted to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary, how would you create your evidence.

So what does museumbox do?
museum box provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents.

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This site holds a collection of stories from around the East Anglian region in England as well as stories from other parts of England and from around the world. To access these stories click on the 'Myths & Legends' button at the top of the page to see the list of stories currently available and clicking on the 'Play' button. You can also create your own stories using the 'Story Creator' which will help you to use pictures to create a graphic version of a story. The 'Story Creator' comes with lots of backgrounds, characters and props and you can even add your own pictures. As well as you can select from the Sound and Image Gallery and even add a video of you reading your story.

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Writely is an online collaborative writing medium that you can upload directly from Word.

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