Five Google Docs Activities Besides Just Writing Essays
Over the last fourteen years I’ve used Google Docs and had students use Google Docs for lots of activities besides just writing essays. I’ve used Google Documents to facilitate analysis of primary sources, to create charts and diagrams, to facilitate group note-taking, to publish simple webpages, and to make collaborative task lists. All of those […]
Notion – A Project Management and Reference Wiki
Notion is an interesting service that combines elements of project management with elements of a wiki service. At its core Notion is designed for teams to work on projects together. You can create sections for each of your projects. Within each section you can create a list of tasks. Notion also lets you add sections […]
Newspaper Templates for Google Docs & Word
This morning I answered an email from a reader who was looking for suggestions on tools that his students can use to collaboratively create a newspaper. My first suggestion was to try LucidPress. My second thought was to try using some Google Docs templates. I didn’t have any Google Docs templates of my own so […]
Create Your School Newspaper With Lucidpress
Lucidpress is a collaborative writing and publishing service that blends great collaboration tools with excellent design templates. That’s why this morning I recommended it to a reader who was looking for a free tool to use to create and publish her school’s newspaper. Through Lucidpress you and your students can collaboratively create documents that incorporate […]
Three Simple Platforms for Publishing Writing
I recently finished making a couple of videos that teach people how to create self-hosted WordPress blogs. Using a self-hosted WordPress blog is the way to go if your goal is to create a robust platform to showcase your professional work. But creating a blog like that could be overkill for those who just want […]
Create Sesame Street Fan Fiction on WriteReader
WriteReader recently announced a partnership with Sesame Street that essentially lets students use Sesame Street artwork in their own multimedia stories. As I wrote on Monday, it’s essentially fan fiction for elementary school students. Take a look at the following video to see how your students can create their own multimedia Sesame Street stories by […]
Draft – A Distraction-free Collaborative Writing Tool
Draft is a free, collaborative writing platform that provides a distraction-free environment. When you write in Draft you won’t see anything but the text in front of you. Draft is stripped of options for messing about with font colors or inserting pictures. Anyone who has an email address can participate in editing a document in […]
Madmagz – Collaboratively Create Online Magazines
Madmagz is a neat platform for collaboratively creating online magazines. Madmagz provides you with a magazine template that lets you use images and text that you can edit alone or with invited collaborators. Unlike some other collaborative writing platforms, the original creator of the magazine has to approve or verify submissions from collaborators. When I […]
Draft – Focused, Collaborative Writing
Draft is a collaborative writing tool that makes you focus on writing and revising by giving users a simple interface. In Draft you won’t find options for inserting images or messing around with font types. In Draft you just write. When you’re ready to get feedback about your writing, you can invite someone to read […]
WriteReader Offers Suggestions for Post-break Writing Activities
The holiday break is over and a lot of students have stories to tell about what they did in their two weeks away from school. Hearing students tell these stories after a break is one of my favorite things. The folks at WriteReader feel the same way and published a blog post featuring ideas for […]