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​ (Please don't use correction fluid on the computer screen to fix your mistake) = ENGLISH DEPARTMENT __ WEB TOOLS​ __ = Blogging

Podcasting

[]- "Start writing online on Widbook and publish the chapters as you go, even if the book is not yet finished."

[] - "Plagiarism is as old as mankind. There was even a time, when imitation was the only way of carrying human knowledge over the generations. Today plagiarism causes economic damage in billions of dollars. Plagiat are nothing but theft of intellectual property of creative people and serve to make others rich. How to avoid plagiarism? Try our software - the solution for plagiarism prevention!"

[] - "provides you with a simple grid to print and complete by hand. After you've filled in the grid just hold it up to your webcam and Pilot captures your handwriting to use as a font."

[] - "RawScripts is online screenwriting software. Scripts are private, secure and accessible from any computer. Nothing to install. Just try out the [|demo editor], or login with your Google or Yahoo account and get working on your screenplay."

[] - "eType is your online multi-language dictionary with translations and word substitutes to virtually any language in the world. eType is your writing guide that auto-completes your words as you type them, enabling you to type faster and boost your level of confidence in your writing."

[] - "ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. Click on some of the pictures below to check out books created by members of the ZooBurst community."

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[] - "is for making printable motivational posters or parody demotivational posters. You choose the picture, colors, and text, and we make your poster."

[] - "PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing."

[] - "Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document. "

[] - "How to write upside down in Twitter, Facebook, Myspace or my Blog?"

[] - "Allows multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more."

[] - "WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners."

[] - "DEC is a system for upgrading and managing a brand’s presence across multiple online environments. It combines cutting-edge content presentation, multimedia UGC, and a variety of real-time inputs to create an engaging user experience, which is then distributed across leading social platforms including YouTube Brand Channels, Facebook Fan Pages, MySpace Brand Communities, the iPhone, and more."

[] - "Our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all."

[] - Create a diagram of related words.

[] - **online graphical dictionary** — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

[] - "BookletCreator is a free online tool that allows you to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages, a small book is created."

[] - "MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere."

[] - "Webspiration™ combines the power of visual thinking and outlining to enhance thinking, learning and collaboration. Use Webspiration to map out ideas, organize with outlines, and collaborate online with teams or colleagues. Create concept maps, mind maps, idea webs and other powerful visual thinking models in Webspiration's Diagram View."

[] - "turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text." [] - "Students can use the [|flip book maker] to design pages that contain various combinations of text and images. The [|flip book maker] provides drawing tools that students can use to create original drawings to illustrate their stories."

=Bookmarks & Citation=
 * [|Diigo]**- "Diigo makes it easy to highlight, clip, and sticky-note right on a web page."
 * [|Notefish]**- "Put all of your web research in one simple page with Notefish."
 * [|Qipit]**- "Take a photo of notes and documents, and this service will turn it into a readable, taggable document."
 * [|BibMe]**- "Enter books, websites, journals, and other sources into this tool, and it will automatically create a bibliography for you. They'll even let you choose between different formats."
 * [|Clipmarks]**- "Clip out important pieces of the web using this neat app."
 * [|Wizlite]**- "Highlight the Internet like it's paper, then share it with your classmates or colleagues."
 * [|MyStickies]**: "This awesome sticky note app allows you to put post-its on your desktop, or perhaps most importantly for researchers, on specific web pages."

=__WEB SITES__= [|http://scriffon.com/]- "It’s a tool to pub­lish any kind of writ­ings on the web; from es­say to short nov­els, from recipes to how-tos, etc. It’s free and open to ev­ery­one. Its de­sign is in­flu­enced by min­i­mal­ism."

[] - "Build your vocabulary with Friends!"

[] - "Here at **ReadWriteThink **, our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials."

[] - "compare and contrast map template"

[] - "Practice your English skills using our free interactive listening lessons, reading exercises, quizzes, and games."

[] - "We've created an online app where you can write your book(s) online. Safely work on your writings, wherever you are. Your writings belong to you, download whenever you want."

[] __- "__Visitors to [|Road to Grammar] will find 365 grammar quizzes. Each quiz provides instant feedback and notes to explain why an answer is correct or incorrect. Before taking the quizzes visitors can work through a dozen practice activities and five practice games."

[] -"Here you’ll find quite simply the most interactive and sophisticated version of //Romeo and Juliet// ever created: use it as a study guide and teaching tool. Read the play, read its English source texts, read critical materials on the play, explore Shakespeare's vocabulary, and experience a full range of multi-media associated with the play."

[] __-__ Wordia - the authorative online textual dictionary, where [|you] bring words to life through video!

[]- "Our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials."

[] - "Online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale."

[] - " VocabAhead Study Room provides a distraction free environment with[|over 1000 difficult word] explained using Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards. More vocab videos continuously added."

[] - "For teachers to be fueled with a passion for teaching, writing, and living. For teachers to see the latest in research and ways to apply it in their classrooms. For us to “practice what we preach” by sharing our own writing. To bring writing teachers together to share ideas and stretch each other’s thinking. To reflect on our teaching — celebrating when it goes well and working it out when it doesn’t. "

[] - "Flocabulary is a small educational publishing company with a strong commitment to making a positive social impact. Since 2005, Flocabulary has been creating original hip-hop music and standards-based curricular materials to teach academic content for grades 3-12. Flocabulary programs are proven to increase student motivation and achievement and are currently being used in over 10,000 schools nationwide."

[] - Easy way to write poems.

[] - "We are a couple of MIT guys who are trying to make SAT prep as fun and free as possible thru the power of user-generated content & peer-to-peer learning. In case you couldn't tell, we LOVE running contests and have awesome partners who are helping us make that happen." [] - Collaborative storytelling

[] - "The National Gallery of Writing is a virtual space—a website—where people who perhaps have never thought of themselves as writers—mothers, bus drivers, fathers, veterans, nurses, firefighters, sanitation workers, stockbrokers—select and post writing that is important to them. The Gallery accommodates any composition format—from word processing to photography, audio/video recording to text messages—and all types of writing—from letters to lists, memoirs to memos."

[] - Class discussion chart/guideline.

[] - Poe and Hemingway animated.

[] - teacher resource.

[] - "Whether you are an attorney, manager or student, writing skills are essential to your success. The rise of the information age – with the proliferation of e-mails, blogs and social networks – makes the ability to write clear, correct English more important than ever. Daily Writing Tips is about that. Every day we’ll send you a grammar, spelling, punctuation or vocabulary tip." [] - Outstanding for Handouts and other resources for teachers.

[] - Type the author name and get a literature map created.

[] - "Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents."

[] - "WritingDEN is designed for students Grades 6 through 12 seeking to improve their English reading, comprehension, and writing skills. WritingDEN is divided into three levels of difficulty: Words, Sentences and Paragraphs."

[] - "For teachers, students and parents. Interactive prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms."

[] - History of words.

[] - "This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place ... and so much more!"

[] - Connectiing words with images.

[] - "Teacher professional development and teacher resources across the curriculum. "

[] - "FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. "

[|Great Summary]"Quickly get the gist of a document, webpage, or any text selection of your choice. Identify the key topics of a document while eliminating redundant information." =BOOKS=

[] - "Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published."

[|http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page]**- "**Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks."

[] - is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.

[] - Free web books online.

[] - "Publish your short stories, films, audio tales on WellToldTales.com blog about what's on your (sick-and-twisted) mind review books, films, podcasts or just about anything."

[] - "To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet." [] - "Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive the episodes of their books via an [|RSS feed] or by listening to episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site. Some listeners keep the audio files on their computers, some transfer the book to CD, but most transfer the file on to their MP3 player so they can listen no matter where they are."

[] "AudioOwl makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way." [] "The resource for the latest free audio books."

[] - "provides a simple interface for finding both the free audio books at [|Librivox.org] and the pay books at [|Audible.com]."

[|What Should I Read Next?] - "Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers' favorite books (more than 75,000 different titles so far, and more than a million reader recommendations) to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next."

[|Free Spelling Games And Activities For Kids - By KidsSpell.com]

[|Voz Me] [|Shmoop Literature] [|Story Teller] [|Shared Book] [|What Should I Read Next?] [|Free Spelling Games And Activities For Kids - By KidsSpell.com] [|http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com] [|Free eCards, Birthday and Christmas eCards, Valentine and Online Greeting Cards] [|Spelling Software - SpellQuizzer. Spelling Software to learn spelling words and lists] [|Online Spelling Program] [|SpinandSpell.com] [|Catch the Spelling (Online Game for Studying Spelling & Vocabulary)] [|Spelling Games - Play Free Online Games at GamesGames.com] [|StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library] [|EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES Punctuation Game] [|The Old Man and the Sea Animated | Open Culture] [|FreeRice] [|10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris] [|Flickr: The Commons] [|United Nations Cyberschoolbus] [|we are multicolored] [|LibriVox] [|BBC - GCSE Bitesize - Homepage] [|FREE -- Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government] [|Youth Voices | Youth Voices] [|GRTR - Home] [|AutoMotivator: Make Your Own Motivational Poster] [|protagonize: interactive fiction & collaborative story writing community] [|visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks] [|Title Page TV |] [|LoudLit.org] [|Welcome to MyRocketbook.com! | ROCKETBOOK Online Video Study Guides: Watch. Read. Succeed.] [|Learnenglish Kids home] [|Guys Read] [|Lookybook | Home] [|Your free online family tree / genealogy on itsourtree.com] [|Digital Booktalk] [|Main Page - FreeReading] [|LiveBook - book written by the Facebook and Bebo communities] [|Welcome to Scrapblog! - Online Scrapbooks] [|ABCya! The Leader in Kids Educational Computer Games & Activities] [|Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics] [|NYPL, Audio and Video Archive] [|Tux Typing Homepage] [|Brooklyn Museum: Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition] [|Ansel Adams's Yosemite - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com] [|VADS: the online resource for visual arts] [|Timelines - Create a Timeline and Share - circaVie] [|Share What You're Reading | Scholastic.com] [|LearnOutLoud.com Free Audio & Video - Free Audio Books, Lectures, & Speeches on MP3 Download and] [|Free eBooks at Planet eBook - Classic Novels and Literature You're Free to Share] [|The Story Starter provides writing prompts for more than 345 million stories.] [|WritingFix: Interactive Writing Prompts & Lessons for Teachers, Students and Writers] [|englishbanana.com - play Hangman Online!] [|Daily Writing Tips]

=GAMES= [|http://www.knoword.org/ -] "Knoword is a game of quick thinking, smart decisions and great words. When you begin, you will be given one randomly generated dictionary definition along with the first letter of its corresponding word. You must fill in the rest of the word to experience a gain in points and an added time bonus. You will start off with one minute before the game ends, and every word is an opportunity to extend your time. If you're ever stuck on a word, just hit the **skip** button and a new puzzle will present itself."

[|BBC Skillswise Games]