Supporting Creative-Writing With Technology
Technology can be used to support any subject and technology to support creative writing is one such area. Here are some of my favourite but often overlooked sites and tools as well as some staples for inspiration, creation and publication and they work just as well in primary as they do secondary and in further education.
Inspiration
As humans we are often inspired by the things that affect our senses. Something we’ve heard or Something we've seen.
Watch Documentary
check http://watchdocumentary.org this site features hundreds of documentary films, series and episodes across a multitude of subject areas. You can derive inspiration from the films you watch there.
Compfight
Images can provide some brilliant inspiration. Check out http://compfight.com which you can use to restrict your searches of Flickr to CC free images for brilliant inspiration.
Be Happy!
The ‘Be Happy’ site http://behappy.me features hundreds of inspirational posters which have quote on there to trigger ones thought. Check it out.
Creation
There are a many tools out there to help with writing and presenting the writing in a creative way. Before one starts their writing it’s a good idea to plan your writing. There are some planning tools you might like to consider.
Popplet
There are lots of mind-mapping tools out there: Spicy Nodes, Bubbl.us, so on and so forth but the bottom line is, pupils LOVE Popplet. It’s so simple to use and effective too. It is a great tool for mapping out ideas before you start actually developing your piece of writing.
Storybird
Storybird is a brilliant free tool for creating your story, and it works on every platform.
Book Creator
Book Creator iPad app has been a staple in many iPad classrooms for a while now. Recently they’ve made a light version which has got all the features of the paid version but only allows you to create your first book for free.!
Strip Generator
There are lots of tools out there for creating comics such as Comic Life and Pixton but I rate the simple little online tool Strip Generator. Easy to use.
Publication
Here are my favourite sites for publication of your work – check them out.
Lulu.com – publish all of your student work in an actual book!?
Issuu.com – publish the work online to this sharing site
Youblisher.com – publish your work on here too in to an online book format.
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