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PicLits is an excellent site for finding creative writing prompts. PicLits aims to provide inspiration for writing short stories. PicLits tries to reach this goal by providing users with images upon which they can build their writing. To get writers ...

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Here are the latest updates for nurhasaan10@gmail.com "Free Technology for Teachers" - 3 new articles PicLits - Using Pictures to Inspire Creative Writing ClassTools SMS Generator - Text Messages Between Historical Figures Slides from my CECA/CASL Presentations More Recent Articles PicLits - Using Pictures to Inspire Creative Writing PicLits is an excellent site for finding creative writing prompts. PicLits aims to provide inspiration for writing short stories. PicLits tries to reach this goal by providing users with images upon which they can build their writing. To get writers started, PicLits provides a list of words which can be dragged and dropped into sentence form. If you don't want to use or don't need a word list, you can select the "freestyle" option to begin free-form writing. Applications for Education The idea of PicLits is not to write a full story within the images, but rather to use the images as the inspiration for longer pieces. In that regard PicLits could be a good source of inspiration for the reluctant writers in your classroom. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachersif you see it elsewhere, it has been used without permission.               Related Stories Seven Good Places to Find Writing Prompts Create Printable Story Cubes on Storyboard That VR, Certificates, and Google Earth - The Week in Review   • Email to a friend • ClassTools SMS Generator - Text Messages Between Historical Figures Last week I wrote about three ways that students can create social media profiles for historical and literary characters. Writing that post reminded me of the Classtools Fake SMS Generator. You could have students use the Classtools SMS Generator to create simple conversations between historical characters as way to get them to think about those peoples' lives and the conversations that they might have had. In the following video I demonstrate how to use the SMS generator.   This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachersif you see it elsewhere, it has been used without permission.               Related Stories History and Literature Text Messages A New LOC Online Collection - Theodore Roosevelt's Papers Case Maker - Civics Lessons Built on Primary Sources   • Email to a friend • Slides from my CECA/CASL Presentations Yesterday and today I had the privilege to speak at the CECA/CASL conference in Connecticut. It was an honor to be invited back to speak at a conference in my home state. Thank you to everyone who came to hear me speak. It was a pleasure to meet many of you throughout the conference and I hope that we meet again. For those who are curious about what I spoke about at the conference, the slides from all of my presentations are embedded below. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachersif you see it elsewhere, it has been used without permission.               Related Stories VR, AR, Video, and the Best of the Web - Slides from Today's Presentations Slides from ESC-20 Library Resource Roundup New Metaverse Tutorials - Build Your Own Augmented Reality Games   • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles VR, Certificates, and Google Earth - The Week in Review TED-Ed Explains Why Students Should Read Classics Three Ways to Make Social Media Profiles for Historical and Literary Characters How to Create Storyboard Templates in Google Slides or PowerPoint How to Set Start and End Times for Videos in Google Slides

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