aclJohn's Creative Writing Finds

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.

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.

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...