Teaching Literary Terms With Comics

Disclosure: Storyboard That is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers.  One of my favorite ways to get students interested in the cre...

A Helpful TED-Ed Lesson for Aspiring Novelists

How To Build A Fictional World is a TED-Ed lesson that I recently watched on Open Culture . In the lesson Kate Messner explains the key ele...

Have Your Students Collaboratively Create Books With Boom Writer

Boom Writer is a service designed to encourage kids to do their best writing and share it with each other to create a small book. Boom Writ...

Word Tamer - An Interactive Journey in Creative Writing

Word Tamer is a neat site for learning the process of developing characters, settings, and plots in creative writing. Word Tamer is set up ...

Craft Stories and Plan Video Projects With Storyboard That

Disclosure: Storyboard That is a new advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers. Last week I published a short video in which I demonstrated...

Five Tools That Help Students Plan Stories

As a student the importance of planning a story before writing it was driven into my head. Then when I became a teacher, I drove that same m...

Nanoogo - A Fun Creative Writing Platform for Kids

Nanoogo is a newer site designed to get kids interested in creative writing projects. At first glance Nanoogo reminded me a bit of Glogster...

Notegraphy - Write, Style, and Share Text

Notegraphy is a new service that was described on Lifehacker as " the Instagram of words ." Notegraphy is a free service for styl...

7 Halloween Themed Educational Activities

Halloween is a just ten days away so you may be looking for some Halloween-themed educational activities to use in your classroom. Here are ...

5 Free Apps and Sites for Creating Short Animations

Creating animations can be a fun element to add to a creative writing project. Creating the animation could be the final piece of the projec...

Seven Good Sources of Writing Prompts

On Sunday I shared my ideas for using picture collages as writing prompts . I realize that creating a collage isn't always feasible or a...

Photo Collages as Writing Prompts

In a post on Android for Schools I wrote about using Pic Collage on my Android phone to create a collage to summarize my day. Pic Collage ...

Visit Zoos and Animal Parks Through Google Street View

Google Maps Street View imagery just keeps getting better. Recently, Google introduced Google Maps Views which is a collection of the galle...

Help Students Start Stories With Word Mover

This afternoon during the technology smackdown at Teaching & Learning conference in Gaston, North Carolina Julian Scott Wilson reminded...

Try Storyboard That for Creating Stories and Planning Video Projects

Disclosure: Storyboard That is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers . Storyboard That is a nice tool for planning and creating st...

Create Picture Stories With Phrase.it

Phrase.it is a free image manipulation service that I tried out earlier this year. Phrase.it allows you to add speech bubbles and some basi...

Two Nice Tools Students Can Use to Create Picture Books

Over the years I've found that drawings and pictures can be good creative writing prompts for students. Here are two tools that elementa...

StoryToolz - Writing Prompts and More

StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like t...

Make Beliefs Comix Offers 300+ Printable Comic Templates

Make Beliefs Comix , a multilingual comic strip creation service that I've featured in the past, recently released some new printable co...

Send a Message to Mars In the Form Of a Haiku

NASA's MAVEN mission will launch later this year. Earlier this year NASA hosted a student art contest through which students could have ...