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yaron overeem yovereem@gmail.com 2012 ttra writers www.inquire-it.blogspot.com www.yaron.overeem.co.nz come and see some online/ict based ideas that will inspire and motivate your students into writing a variety of narratives especially boys the key to getting good writing is motivation inspiration and creativity here are some ideas of such things that i have used or can t wait to use going places video http www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kmm387hnqk&feature=player_embedded story bird http storybird.com story bird is a narrative/children s story book maker you choose an illustrator and assemble your book from the range of pictures the illustrator gives you you then write your own story to match http inquire-it-writing.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/rebeccas-storybird.html story jumper http www.storyjumper.com story jumper is an online flash book maker it allows you to create a flash based page turning picture book that looks and reacts like a real book this is great for getting students away from just publishing in a word processor and it allows them to share their work with others zoo

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burst http www.zooburst.com this is a 3d online flash book maker it is amazing you create a book and add your story to it you then create 3d pop up like characters and props create for creative publishing and you can embed it into your own website example http www.zooburst.com/zb_books viewer.php?book=zb0_4db38744bbbf4 study ladder http www.studyladder.co.nz a mixture of maths and literacy resources this is a great teacher resource if you are looking at teaching genre deeper features and surface features it has video animations printable and interactive student activities sign up your class free and set task for them to complete this site keeps track of student progress and is easy to facilitate great in your reading or maths rotations go animate http goanimate.com go animate is a virtual comic book maker you can create and amazing array of environments and characters to make into a moving talking and animated comic great for retelling stories creating simple narratives or making informative reports and explanations you blisher http www.youblisher.com you blisher is an ebook maker that converts you story into an embeddable flash style ebook you simply save your word doc to a pdf and upload it to youblisher very easy to use http inquire-it-writing.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/halo-spartan-wars.html http www.youblisher.com/p/206609-halo-spartan-wars disney comic creator http www.disney.co.uk/disney-create/comic-creator/phineas-and-ferb/index.jsp choose from two disney themes to create a comic story easy to use and print.

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crayola s create and colour https www2.crayola.com/coloring-page-maker students use this great little tool to make scenes that then will be the inspiration/motivation for their narrative story hero factory http cpbherofactory.com this is a great tool for creating super hero characters ready for use in any boys or girls writing very easy to use save and print lego character maker http www.reasonablyclever.com/mm2/mini2.swf students could make the different characters from their story or from a book they have read and describe those characters really well with lots of descriptive language http www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51k0jlx-ro lego comic maker http city.lego.com/en-us/comicbuilder/framepage.aspx story maker http www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker another cool little story scene maker myths and legends story maker http myths.e2bn.org/story_creator read and write myths and legends using this neat little myths maker app.

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prezi http prezi.com if you are looking for something new and different prezi is worth a try it is a zooming interactive animated presentation tool it could be great doing narratives reports or explanations http prezi.com/ftv9hvziwqi2/coca-cola-companya some other websites that do amazing things glogster ­ mixbook tikatok bookbuilder protagonize plotbot book chook www.glogster.com multimedia scrapbook blog that can be embedded mixbooks.com http www.tikatok.com/help/education http www.teachersfirst.com/20/getsource.cfm?id=8060 http www.protagonize.com http www.plotbot.com http www.thebookchook.com we make stories http www.wemakestories.com artisancam boomwriter http www.artisancam.org.uk http boomwriter.com

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