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Scrivener - Outline. Edit. Storyboard. Write.
Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers.
Storyist Software
Storyist®—a powerful story development tool for novelists and screenwriters.
With an intuitive interface that puts you in control, Storyist provides:
A word processor with a page layout view and support for headers, footers, and style sheets so you can produce submission-ready manuscripts and scripts.
A storyboard with customizable story sheets so you can track your plot, characters, and settings.
A project manager with fast, project-wide search capabilities so you can keep your writing organized and accessible.
About aMap | aMap
aMap is short for ‘argument map’. The idea’s very simple - to promote the art of arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format.
WordSift - Visualize Text
For teachers, the tool offers a quick way of assessing the text that he or she is using for instruction. Teachers assess students, and the most successful teachers use this information to guide their teaching. So why not assess the text as well? By using WordSift, teachers get a heads up on key vocabulary appearing in the text, and can line instruction up with what might be challenging for students.
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.
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When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are
instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and
productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting
sessions, education, team programming, and more.
mystorymaker
My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you. Once you are done with your story, save it online or print it out in the Library. It would be a perfect tool to use with an interactive whiteboard for students in division 1.
Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools | Alliance for Excellent Education
Along with reading comprehension, writing skill is a predictor of academic success and a basic requirement for participation in civic life and in the global economy. Yet every year in the United States, large numbers of adolescents graduate from high school unable to write at the basic levels required by colleges and employers. Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools, commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, discusses eleven specific teaching techniques that research suggests will help improve the writing abilities of the country’s 4th- to 12th-grade students.
Art class - collaborative writing & feedback
Group conversations around images, documents, and videos.
FocusWriter - Gott Code
You will be able to customize your environment by changing the font, colors, and background image to add the ambiance you need while writing. FocusWriter features an on-the-fly updating wordcount, optional auto-save, and toolbars that hide away to allow you to focus more clearly; additionally, when you open the program your current work-in-progress will automatically load and position you at the end of your document, so that you can immediately jump back in.
Tikatok - Imagine a Story. Create a Book.
Where Kids Write, Illustrate, and Publish Their Own Books
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Where Kids Write, Illustrate, and Publish Their Own Books
Livescribe :: Sneak Peek
The Livescribe paper-based computing platform – a smartpen, paper, software applications, and development tools – will be available online beginning in Q1 2008. The smartpen will be less than $200
Thirty Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom - Google Docs
Thirty Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom
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Thirty Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom
Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word
Write and record simultaneously
Today's Meet
Today's Meet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.
Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
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Talk. Listen.
Today's Meet helps you embrace the
backchannel
and connect with your audience in realtime.
DoingText - effortless text collaboration
Evolving a good text is all about communication.
doingText makes writing, sharing and gathering feedback a no-fuss experience.
With elegance and simplicity.
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- Collaborators don't need an account - simply share the URL
- Easier to use with clutter free interface
- Fine grained control: track and comment on every line
- Runs on mobile devices
- No Flash or Java required
- Stay up to date on changes through news feed/RSS
- We are making it better every week
- You pay for it - We treat you like a paying customer
- made with love.
BBC - Writersroom - ScriptSmart
Script Smart is a set of Microsoft Word templates to help writers format their scripts.
Script Smart is a free formatting tool. Due to limited resources, BBC writersroom are unable to provide technical support.
Tar Heel Reader
Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.
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Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.
Elearning instructional design ideas - Making Change blog
In this blog, you'll find practical ideas that will help you create lively, powerful elearning for adults in the business world. It's written by Cathy Moore.
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In this blog, you'll find practical ideas that will help you create lively, powerful elearning for adults in the business world. It's written by Cathy Moore.
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