Teaching in the big wired world

The website: www.writingfix.com

This website has a daily writing ideas generator. Also features ideas generator for plot, characters and setting. Website includes resources for teaching writing (although this part id still in development).

Suitable for: grade3-adult (more suitable for teachers)

Suggested uses: Students viist site to get ideas for their writing, teachers could use the daily ideas generator for writing time ideas / story starters.

Tags: literacy, WOW, writing

www.wordle.net

Enter keywords about any topic and this website will create a ‘word cloud’ using those words. Words that are typed more frequently are larger in the cloud. You can fully customise the colour of the words / layout.

Suitable for: Prep-adult

Suggested uses: Students type in spelling words, find keywords in an article or type words relating to prior knowledge of a topic.

Tags: WOW