Using ICT for writing

Using ICT for Writing

By James Abela

Today’s Sharing

Prompts

Format

Organisation

Workflow

Accuracy

Audience

Prompts – Video Trailers

Prompts – Video Trailers

• http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/Downloadable on iPads

• http://www.youtube.com/Seriously, there’s a clip for everything….

• Vimeo – Some call it an up-market Youtube!

iMovie Action Movie FX iTunes Movie Trailers

Randomisers

Inspirational Appsbut don’t overuse…

Story Dice Epic Citadel WeeMee Avatar Creator

Morfo 3D Face Booth Talking Tom

& Ben NewsWriting Prompts

nightzookeeper.com

B-Rhymes Dictionary

Word Clouds http://www.wordle.net/

WordPack

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Other cool prompts

• Slide Show of pictures for plot points http://animoto.com/

• Online Sticky Notes -http://en.linoit.com/ or http://jn.padlet.com/

Writing Formats

Blank page

Shared

storiesScripts Prezi

With Prompts

Trumps

CardsComics Caption

Get Them Writing

Use Publisher to make Top Trumps Cards

Comic Life for comics and captions

PowerPoint for stories, instructions or captioning

Great for passingdocs around & can create form for shorter writing

Format – iPad support

Book Creator for iPad

Quick office

Dictation software

Puppet pals

Organisation

MS Office Smart Art

MS Office Smart Art

Which Smart Art tools could help your students?

Mind Maps

• https://bubbl.us/

• X-Mind / Freemind

• http://biggerplate.com/

Idea Sketch Total Recall

Set

assignment

Students

work on it

Share &

peer review

Share with

teacher

Teacher

review

Check in

Final

Marking

A+

Work

flow

Live Writing

Live Writing

Students write their work using a chat style interface: http://livewriting.net/

Software used: http://www.coveritlive.com/

Accuracy

• Learn English (British Council)Large number of grammar games

• Noredink.com Enables you to quickly create grammar lessons.

Audience

Quad

Blogging

Guest Spot

on Blog

3 way

Conference

TV Screens

in the

building

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