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Motivated
to Write!
Tips & Tools to Inspire
“The pages are still blank,
  but there is a miraculous
 feeling of the words being
there, written in invisible ink
 and clamoring to become
           visible.”
    ~Vladimir Nabakov
Really?!
You want
 me to
write!?#$
Motivate to write!
Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners!
Free flow



 editing
Oneword.com
Oneword.com
Plinky.com
Use
music
Moodstream.gettyimages.com
Brainstorming, Birth of an Idea by Superlative00, Flickr
Brainstorming
Storyboarding




                ©Kevin   Hodgson, Dogtrax.edublogs.org
Storyboards 3D App for iPad
Tip: Use Graphic Organizers
Create Concept Maps
Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners!
Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners!
Create a safe
environment!
Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners!
Create a Scene




Lessonstream.org
Word Cloud Story by @Marisa_C

Use Word Cloud Tools
Add to VoiceThread
5card.cogdogblog.com
Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners!
Why?


 Take it
 outside
Scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
A daily audio or writing journal
WritingFix.com
Exclusivetutors.com/apps/journaljar
ywp.nanowrimo.org/how-does-nanowrimo-work-for-educators
Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners!
Whatmakesme.com.au
WritingFix.com
100wordstory.org
Storyit.com
Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners!
Bogglesworldesl.com/creativ
       ewriting.htm
Get them to write!
Our students
                                    can bethe
                                heroes of their
                                  life story, we
                                   just need to
                                inspire them to
                                     begin the
                                      story…
Image by John Corvera, Flickr
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TeacherRebootCamp.com
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Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners!

Editor's Notes

  1. It can be a struggle to get our students to write creatively. It’s usually because they are out of practice and need to learn the process.
  2. 4 elements to ease the struggle: Inspire, Safe environment, learn the process, practice constantly
  3. 4 elements to ease the struggle: Inspire, Safe environment, learn the process, practice constantly
  4. http://Oneword.com
  5. http://Smories.com
  6. http://Plinky.com
  7. http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/
  8. ©Kevin Hodgson, Dogtrax.edublogs.org
  9. 4 elements to ease the struggle: Inspire, Safe environment, learn the process, practice constantly
  10. 4 elements to ease the struggle: Inspire, Safe environment, learn the process, practice constantly
  11. http://5card.cogdogblog.comYou are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures”.
  12. 4 elements to ease the struggle: Inspire, Safe environment, learn the process, practice constantly
  13. http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
  14. http://Whatmakesme.com.au
  15. http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/how-does-nanowrimo-work-for-educators
  16. http://Whatmakesme.com.au
  17. http://Whatmakesme.com.au
  18. http://100wordstory.org
  19. http://Smories.com
  20. http://Smories.com
  21. 4 elements to ease the struggle: Inspire, Safe environment, learn the process, practice constantly