Teacher-Authors–Long List of my Favorite Writing Websites

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1. Buncee–drag and drop multimedia onto a canvas to tell a story or presentation
2. Context Clues Millionaire
3. Create Reading Excitement with Book Trailers
4. Formatically — automatically formats docs for MLA and adds citations
5. Main Idea Battleship
6. TED videos that teach writing
7. Using a table of contents
8. Vocab, prefix/suffix, word lists and more
   

Blogs

Brainstorming

Citation Tools

1. BibMe
2. Citation Generator
3. Citation Machine
4. EasyBib
5. WriteCite

Comics

Drawing resources from Eric Curts

1.  Blog Post – “Wintertime Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings” – Website link
2.  Wintertime Magnetic Poetry Template – Google Drawing link
3.  Blog Post – “Valentine’s Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings” – Website link
4.  Valentine’s Magnetic Poetry Template – Google Drawing link
5.  Compose a Tweet Template – Google Drawing link
6.  Blog Post – “3 Tools for Making Memes in School” – Website link
7.  Blog Post – “Create Your Own Story Cubes with Google Drawings” – Website link

Greeting Cards

Lesson Plans

Letter Writing

1. Friendly Letter Maker

Newsletters

1. Adobe Spark–a suite of tools for publishing; see newsletter directions here
2. Newspaper template–in PowerPoint

Notetaking

Outlines

1. The Google Docs app
2. MS Word app
3. OmniOutliner –for iPads and online
4. OneNote
5. Workflowy – an online list maker that is shared and collaborative

PDF Editors and Annotators

Plagiarism

Publish Writing

Skills

Social Media

1. Fake headline
2. Fakebook–fake FB
3. IFakeText–fake SMS text

Spelling

Stories

Storytelling

1. Adobe Spark Video–digital stories that
2. My Storybook Maker–6-8 year olds with great drawing tools, stamps, voice recording, text and sharing capabilities
3. Sway–storytelling any type of event including text, images, and more. Part of MS Office

Vocabulary

1. Futaba–fantastic multiplayer game AND a fun way to help children learn new words

Word Processing Programs

1. Games
2. WPS–full productivity suite, free, for computers, iOS

Writing

1. Canva Text to Image–write words and Canva changes them to images
2. Co:Writer–type a few words and the program predicts what comes next
3. CoWriter–if you can think it, you can write it–browser extension
4. Google Docs–free app that provides limited access to Google Docs functions
5. MS Word iPad app–free; create new docs and/or edit one downloaded from online storage
6. Read&Write–for Google Chrome, students write their own content and save as PDFs, share, add more than text
7. Write About This–writing prompts for students

Writing Programs

1. 6 Traits
2. Writer’s Workshop
3. Writing City

Writing Review Sites

Writing with AI

1. an AI book title generator
2. an AI Pen Name generator
3. An AI plot generator
4. ChatGPT–AI-generated writing
5. ChatGPT–has developed their own tool to find AI-generated writing

Writing by AI (identify it)

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.