Twitter 25 Word Stories

Challenge your students to write a 25 word story to submit on Twitter.  http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%2325wordstory

Figment

Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.

What is Collaborative Writing?

What is Collaborative Writing?

Where's George?

Where’s George: Track US currency -
A great creative writing activity!

Dragon's Den: A Reality TV Simulation for Research Writing (Guest Blogger)

Dragon's Den: A Reality TV Simulation for Research Writing (Guest Blogger) Both my Advanced Composition and First-Year Writing students need to produce better proposals to guide their research over the course of the semester.  First drafts of their proposals generally lack clarity and focus, indicative of new writers stumbling clumsily around a topic rather than pirouetting on the ball of a contentious research question. To address these issues, I designed a scaffolding activity using the television show Dragon's Den as a framework for pitching research ideas. To integrate immediate peer review feedback into the pitch sessions, I used live audience polling as a simple peer-review mechanism for determining which students could proceed to the next stage of the research process, library research.

iCyte

iCyte
Your research. Anywhere.Simplify your world – save, annotate and organize all your research securely in the cloud.

Twist Our Words

Create video sentences with Twist Our Words

How to Cite Twitter and Facebook

How to Cite Twitter and Facebook

AdLit

AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.

Free eBooks at Amazon

From the CBS Early Show news this morning, a direct link to a list of all of Amazon.com's free books (over 16,600!)

FREE eBOOKS

Remember, there is a Kindle app for iPods, iPads, iPhones, so you can download the books and load them onto these devices as well as onto Kindles. You will just need to authorize the iThing with the account you used to download the books from Amazon.