1. Tech Tool 2.5 Web Resources For Creativity By: Taylor Aschenbrenner

2. http://bridgecontest.usma.edu  Online design competition  Competition for middle and high school students  The students are to try to create the least expensive bridge that will pass a simulated load test.  The students can test the viability of their creative designs on the computer. West Point Bridge Design Contest

3. www.stonesoup.com/listen  Middle and high school students present their recorded short stories aloud online.  Provides a dramatic publishing venue for young writers.  Great for students to see other students work.  Magazines are great resources for the classroom for students to see other students work. Our Authors-Live!

4. http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_hom e.htm  Online writing workshop for young poets.  Audio clips of the poet reading some of his poems in engaging ways.  Helpful tips to help students through the writing process of poems.  Students can publish their poem on this website. Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky

5. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu  Website is a form of combining the art of storytelling with the multimedia tools of graphics, audio, video animation, and Web publishing's.  Can watch examples of different categories- can watch on different electronic devices.  Can make your own story-gives helpful hints and strategies to make your own story with multimedia tools. Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

6. www.loc.gov/poetry/180  Poems for everyday of the school year  180 poems for high school students.  Good for an every day school routine  Reason for website: “Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.”-can encourage students to become readers or be better readers. Poetry 180

7. http://www.barbican.org.uk/canihaveaword/  Invites exploration of four topics: the human body, changing voices, the elements, and the odyssey.  Through videos, words related to the topic appear. Good for visual use.  Students experience the topic dramatically before writing about it in creative assignments and activities. Can I Have A Word?

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