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Tikatok Across the Curriculum

October 12, 2011

Writing lessons and project ideas for your K-8 classroom.

This free monthly series of activities, project ideas and learner worksheets integrates writing across a variety of subjects from maths, science, social studies, art, and more.

Visit http://www.tikatok.com/writing to get your downloads.

Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Writing and Illustrating 

 

The Wasteline Test

November 7, 2010

The Wasteline Test assesses whether a person's writing is 'flabby' or 'fit'.

The test works by counting percentages of words in five categories commonly associated with stodgy sentences...

  • weak verbs;
  • abstract nouns;
  • prepositions;
  • adjectives/adverbs; and
  • 'waste words' (it, this, that, there).

For every writing sample users submit, they will receive an overall fitness rating ranging from lean to heart attack territory.

Visit http://www.writersdiet.com/wasteline.html to find...


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Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Analyze 

 

I Write Like...

July 19, 2010

Are there similarities in your written works and the works of a famous author? To find which author’s works your writings resemble, head on over to “I Write Like.”

I Write Like is a free and simple to use web service that claims that it can tell you which author you write like.

Users paste in a piece of their work and after quick analysis "I write Like" displays a famous author’s name whose work their writing resembles. They can paste in any text they have recently worked on:

...
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Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Analyze 

 

Writing with Writers

July 10, 2010

The Scholastic website has an area called "Writing with Writers" that might be of interest to practitioners and learners because it pulls back the veil on the writing process.

The progression of activities and sequencing of tasks (along with insights by known authors)

  • Jane Yolen,
  • Virginia Hamilton, and
  • Jack Prelutsky,

...makes Writing with Writers a valuable tool for most learners. A bonus is that learners can get stories published here, too, so the writing is an authentic exper...


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Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Interactive CPD 

 

Inkheart

April 17, 2010

All the Inkheart news that's fit to print Saturday, April 17, 2010

Writing Games
aclJohn

''Everyone has a story to tell! To tell or not to tell, is another question?'' The problem is, if you want to TELL, where do you start?

For those who have access to the internet, there is a whole array of 'tools' that can be used; tools that help plan, those that help with layout, those that provide and/or allow users to produce illustrations and a ...


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Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Interactive CPD 

 

Wacky Web Tales

March 11, 2010

Wacky Web Tales is a collection of "Auto-Creative Writing" activities from Houghton Mifflin.

Wacky Web Tales...

  • is designed for younger learners but has the potential to be used with all age groups.
  • asks learners to fill-in a blank form using words to make parts of speech prompts.

The words the learners write into the blank form are the used in an automatically generated short story. This online resource could be...

  • used by learners to practice identifying the parts of speech;
  • used by...

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Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Writing and Illustrating 

 

StoryJumper

February 15, 2010

StoryJumper is a site that gives parents, guardians, children, and authors a set of intuitive tools for writing and illustrating childrens stories.

The goal of StoryJumper is to inspire anyone that's ever wanted to write a story for children to get started.

Visit http://www.storyjumper.com/ to find out more and/or http://www.storyjumper.com/main/starter for online CPD/tutorials.


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Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Writing and Illustrating 

 

FlickrPoet

December 28, 2009

Have you and/or your learners got a story to tell or a poem to write? You can now both do so with pictures from Flickr using FlickrPoet.

Simply go to FlickrPoet and type a sentence. When you click on the ‘Show Story‘ button, FlickrPoet will browse the Flickr database and pull an image for each word/phrase used in your sentence. These images will be organized to provide you with a picture story.

Go on try it out at http://www.storiesinflight.com/flickrpoet/index.php.


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Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Visual 

 

Five Card Stories

October 27, 2009

Five Card Stories is an experimental web site designed to foster visual thinking.

How does it work? Users...

  • are dealt five random photographs for each of five draws,
  • select one each time to add to their selection of images; they will probably find it easier if the first image they select is of a person or animal, which can then be the main character in their story.
  • take the 5 images to tell a story; illustrated by them...
    • give it a title,
    • add a name (it doesn't have to be your rea...

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Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Visual 

 
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About Me

John Dalziel
Liverpool Uk

John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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