Inklewriter

What it is: Inklewriter is a great digital tool that lets students (and teachers if you are so inclined) write and publish interactive stories. Inklewriter lets students create choose-your-own-adventure type stories, story lines can come with choices and then be linked back together. Inklewriter makes this process easier by keeping track of which story paths have been finished and which still need work. There is no set-up required, no programming language to learn and no diagrams. Inklewriter is free to use and easy to share with the world when it is published. When a story is finished, it can even be converted to Kindle format!
I found the Inklewriter format to be pretty intuitive and easy to use. I think intermediate elementary and older will have no trouble using this tool for creative and informative writing.
How to integrate Inklewriter into the classroom: Inklewriter is a great digital tool for creative writing. Students can explore multiple plot lines and what-if scenarios in their fictional writing. I also like the idea of using Inklewriter to ask kids to explore the “what-ifs” in history. What if we lost/won this war/battle? What if the other guy (or girl) had been elected president? What if the Berlin wall hadn’t come down? These types of stories are fantastic opportunities for students to explore their curiosities and, in the process, learn more about the event they are exploring. After all, you have to know something about how an event actually went in order to write alternate endings.
Inklewriter would be a fun way for students to come up with alternate endings to a novel they are reading. Our students wrote a variety of endings for The Giver. Each student wrote a different ending that picked up from the last chapter of the book. Inklewriter would have been a great tool to use for all of these endings to be available in one place. Students could copy/paste the last paragraph of the actual book and then offer their alternative endings as options.
In science, students could use Inklewriter as a tool to record their hypothesis. Students can write out the objective and steps in their experiment and make a new “alternate ending” for their various hypothesis.
In math, students could create story problems where they lead others down the path to discover the correct answer.
Tips: These interactive stories are MADE for your tablet devices…if you have some in your classroom, take advantage of them!

http://ilearntechnology.com/

One of my favorite sites Classtools.net

http://www.classtools.net/

I personally like the random name picker.  Type your students name.  Click the name and it selects a student at random.

Allows you to save it and gives you an URL to bookmark, so you can use it over and over.  I would create shortcuts to each class on my desktop.

Letterpop

I know I have mentioned this before, but I think its worth posting.  http://letterpop.com

Allows you to create newletters quickly and easily and then share them with your parents via email or Twitter.  Yes Twitter is unblocked.

Of you can link them to your homework site.

ifaketest.com

http://ifaketext.com/

 I believe “iFake Text” is a great example of  a simple tool that can allow your students to show what they know in a unique or novel way by emulating a text message conversation on an iPhone.

iFake Text

http://ifaketext.com

How to use it:

1. 1.Go to : http://ifaketext.com/
   
   

   

   
   
2. 2.Enter your name.
   
3. 3.Choose a carrier.
   
4. 4.Enter the conversation.
   Be sure to use the format as shown below:
   1: Hello
   2: Hello
   1: How are you?
   2: I’m fine. How are you?
   
5. 5.Click the “Create Your Screenshot” button.
   
   

   

   
   
   Note - If you don’t like the way it looks, you can use the browser’s back button to go back and edit it.
   
6. 6.Use the provided options at the left to share the screen shot with others.
   
   

   

   
   
7. 7.To print:
   a. Copy the “Direct Link” url.
   b. Paste the url into a new tab or window.
   c. Print.
   
8. 8.To embed the screenshot into a blog, wiki, or website, use the “HTML Image” option.

Ways to use it in a classroom:

Students could write dialog between:

1. •Two book characters from a scene in a story
2. •Two animals (including some facts about them)
3. •Two historic figures
4. •Two friends discussing a book, movie, or event.

Easy Online Test Maker

https://testmoz.com/  Unfortunatly it can not be printed.

Create Cool Animated Text

Image by Cool Text: Logo and Button Generator - Create Your Own Logo

Create your own!!  Download the image and insert it into Powerpoints or Activinspire or on your Google Sites Webpage.

Wallwisher

Wallwisher, located at http://www.wallwisher.com. No login required.  Wallwisher gets the user creating a web-based bulletin board or wishing wall and posting notes, photos and videos in minutes. Then, by sharing the Wallwisher board URL or embedding the board on a blog or other web site, a teacher in can get students interacting in cyberspace on virtually any topic.

Benefits: Allows multiple users to interact on a topic with brief notes, pictures and videos -- all by simply clicking on the web-based wishing wall board. With the click of a mouse, a student can add a 160-character comment along with a link to an outside site. These post-its, as Wallwisher calls them, can also contain links to pictures and videos.