This presentation is for Learn East 2012. It showcases a couple of online writing tools that could be used in your classroom.

1. The Writing’s on the
Virtual Wall...
On-Line Tools for Writing
Cheryl Russell-School District 10

2. Story Bird
Check out the classroom edition for
step-by-step instructions!
http://storybird.com/teachers/

3. What’s awesome
Free for Educators including three
classes and 75 students. Any more
than that costs $$
You can keep books “private”. Class
monitoring is simple.
Accessible from anywhere.
Can be shared/emailed/embedded

4. Suggestions for use:
You send a specific assignment to
students to complete.
Students create their own works.
Students collaborate on one story.

5. What it might look
like...
Students select one picture and then
write sentences utilizing as many
details as possible.
Students put themselves into the story
as a character, interacting with the
characters in the art they chose.
Limit students to 3 pictures to write
a story beginning, middle and end.
Create a word problem based on an
image.

6. Story Jumper
Check out the classroom edition for
step-by-step instructions!
http://www.storyjumper.com/main/
classroom

7. What’s awesome
Free for Educators including multiple
classes.
“Safe” and easy for teacher to
monitor
Step-by-step instructions to set up
and printables to send home.
Variety of options for writing
Can be shared in multiple ways

8. Suggestions for use:
Students complete graphic organizers
before building a story.
Students use Story Jumper to generate
ideas for a story.

9. What it might look
like...
fictional narratives
instructions for new students coming
to your school
collaborative writing projects within
or outside your building
summaries of units, to be used for
formative assessment purposes
Write-to-self, Read Aloud

10. Empower Students.
Engage them.
Make their voice
heard.

11. Thank you for your
time!
Contact me at russechd@nbed.nb.ca
twitter: @russechd

12. A few more
resources..
Tech 20 Tuesdays - A great place to
learn in 20 mins. Lots of
presentations are already stored here:
http://tech20tuesday.wikispaces.com/
http://
caffeinatedteaching.wordpress.com/
2011/01/06/writing-ideas-for-storybird/
Story Jumper: http://
teachweb2.wikispaces.com/Storyjumper