"The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write, and keep on writing."
-Ken MacLeod

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QuadBlogging - sign your class up to blog with 3 other classrooms and connect your writing
Narrable - record your story along with a photo
Bookr - create and share a photo book using Flickr images
Picture This - New York Times: using photos and news articles to build writing skills
EdGalaxy.com - pictures to use to inspire student writing
Teachers Write - teacher community to promote writing
California Writing Project - teacher resource
Citelighter - digital website to assign writing and digital tools for students to cite work  (paid subscription)
Kidblog - blogging for students that can be contained under a teacher's account
National Writing Project - Teacher resource
Bubbl.us - brainstorming and mindmapping, graphic organizers for writing
WiseMapping - free mind mapping tool
BoomWriter - collaboration tool for students and writing
Paper Rater - grammar checker, plagiarism detection, writing suggestions
Myths and Legends - teacher resource
BigHugeLabs - play with photos and words to make calendars, magazine covers, and more
Storybird - create digital story books
Center for Digital Story Telling - teacher resource
Storyboard That - create a storyboard with graphics and text (comic strip like)
Uinames - generate names for characters in writing
Mixbook - create ebooks to share and embed
The Literacy Shed - teacher resource for visual literacy, use videos and photos to spark writing
Cube Creator - use digital cubes to build stories and relate key ideas
JellyBean Scoop -teacher/class accounts for free