Writing and, in general, creating content can be challenging at times. However, new technologies are giving a big hand to both teachers and students. Why making your writing activities lengthy and boring when, with some digital magic, you can make them engaging and more productive?
This is a first list of some of the tools that can help you teach writing more effectively.
Message boards
There are several Web 2.0 tools that function as virtual corkboards or whiteboards for messages. Some optionsa are Padlet, Corkboard.me and Linoit.
Glogster Students can use this service to make posters or presentations
Teachers can also use Glogster to create content.
Stories
Write a 'story' which is what happened on a date in time, add pictures, video, and OurSotry creates a timeline. Imports flickr photos.
Storybird Storybird is a visual storytelling community of readers, writers, and artists of all ages who can make gorgeous, art-inspired stories in seconds.
Blogs
Blogger Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating different kinds of blogs.
Wikis
Wikispaces Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education where teachers and students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams.
PBWorks PBworks is a real time collaborative editing system that offers basic features free of charge.
Booklets
Simple Booklet This tools allows users to turn brochures, catalogs and newsletters into interactive web bookets that can be shared via email, websites or social media.
Connecting with others
Twitter Twitter can be used in different ways to engage students in communicative activities with native speakers.
Epals ePals is the world's largest network of K-12 classrooms. It connects teachers and students from 200 countries, creating a learning community for free.
Topics This online magazine for English learners gives students and teachers the opportunity to express and publish their ideas.
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