Fun+links+for+writers


 * This page is for sharing links to fun sites and resources for writers

IMPORTANT IWP LINKS** National Writing Project NWP E-Anthology Iowa Writing Project Definition of the word "Copious"

 The Writer's Almanac Garrison Keillor's daily poem, trivia, history and biography on great writers. I Write Like I Write Like Korey shred this by email. Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers. ** ** Goodreads is a social network (like facebook or myspace) just for readers! Members can recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they've read and would like to read, form book clubs and discussion groups. Kids may actually enjoy writing book reviews.
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Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors to Poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies,essays, interviews, and poetry recordings—with new material being added constantly. Also available are resources such as the National Poetry Map, a national events calendar, and poetrylesson plans for teachers. Poets.org receives a million visitors each month, making it the most popular site about poetry on the web.Poets.org also allows visitors to create their own anthologies of content from our site. Log in and create a Notebook, then fill it with text and audio to make your own poetry library on the web.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. Users inserts text, images, photos, audio, videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation.

Big HUGE Labs More options than Glogster.
 * Here are a few sites shared with us Monday morning, July 12.**

Word it Out like Wordle with more options.

Block Posters GREAT Art assignment too (Ted likes it)

Go Animate for online story telling

BitStrips build a comic

TinyURL

TripIt for creating travel journals