Canva -- free online scrapbooks; pay for additional features
Glogster -- free online posters with photos and video; pay for additional features
Life Online -- Time/Life Archive of famous photographs to use in customized timelines.
Newspaper Tool -- create a newspaper clipping image from your own text
Prezi -- online non-linear presentation tool
Smilebox -- online scrapbooking site, not free. Requires downloading APP.
ToonDoo -- online cartoon creation, requires Flash
Wordle--
creates “word clouds” from text you provide. Print as .pdf Tagxedo even allows you to choose the shape of your
“word cloud.”
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60 Second Recap -- Look under “Study Guides” for short witty versions of great literature. Right sidebar links to several additional analyses for each title.
Book-a-Minute -- Mini versions of the classics
The Book of Qualities by J. Ruth Gendler inspires writing by personifying abstract qualities
Bulwer-Lytton Contest -- the famous “it was a dark and stormy night” contest
Calendar of Literary Facts -- birthdays, firsts, publishing and performance information
Find a Grave -- locations, inscriptions, even pictures of the famous
departed
Haiku Generator -- totally random yet weirdly sensible
Learn Out Loud and Loud Lit -- free audio files
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Keenan Hart’s free Prompts to Publishing -- daily prompts for Middle School, Intermediate, and English Language learners.
Library of Congress Educator Resources -- Primary Source Sets and Teacher Analysis Guides are especially useful.
Voice Lessons PowerPoints --
by Marcie Belgard and typed for sharing by Jo Krajeck
Detail
Diction
Imagery
Syntax
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PowerPoint Paper -- Each slide is a different paper design to use as backgrounds for your own PowerPoints
Education Designs -- Each slide is appropriate for report and projects
Writing Prompts -- Two-page design sets for picture & related written prompt
Passages to Paraphrase -- 30 sentences that work well. Handout.
Writing about Art -- great images for visual literacy.
Demotivational Posters -- This parody of motivational posters is just for fun.
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