Ways to Use the Internet for Writing
1. Write a poem using 25 words or more. Use SnagIt to capture your poem as an image, then insert this image on a page in Dreamweaver. Save the page, link it to your homepage, and upload the page.htm 2. Read three or four stories in fray.com then write your essay at the end of each. Besides, checks your essay for plagiarism. Create a Web page with Dreamweaver, in which you recommend (or not) these essay to other students. Include links to the specific essays and to the specific Web addresses where we can read your topics. 3. Register with your name and E-mail in stripcreator.com. Create three or four comic strips, and save them in stripcreator.com. Create a Web page with Dreamweaver, in which you explain what you were trying to say with each comic strip. Include links to the specific Web addresses where one could find your comic strips. 4. Every day for two weeks, post a message with your name, e-mail, and the school's URL in response to the prompts at oneword. Copy each post onto a Microsoft Word document. Once you have collected 10 posts, copy them to a Web page that you create with Dreamweaver, and revise them so that they fit together in some surprising, creative way. Save this page, link it to your home page, and upload it. 5. Login at East Side Bloggers. Copy a set of Sentence Starters, and write about a book that you are reading. Post your blog, then look around to see what other students and teachers are saying about the books they are reading, and write responses to a couple of them. You should write in your blog three times a week. 6. Read what the students and teachers in East Siders Against the War have posted on their site. Write back to Lizeth Martinez and others, using the school's e-mail. Explain your position on the war and what you think of their arguments and the work they have been doing. 7. Use Dreamweaver to create a multi-page, multimedia hypertext version of a short story that you wrote last semester (or another time). Include links (internal and out to the Web), images, sound, graphics to re-vise your story almost as if it were a movie on the Web. Link the first page of your story to your home page, Upload everything 8. Read "Just War ” or a Just War?" by Jimmy Carter, and have a chat with 3 to 6 other students in Tappedin.org. Discuss Carter's definition of a just war. Say what you think Carter's position is on the war in Iraq. Explain why you agree or disagree with him. 9. Find your work from "People, Places, Times, and Things," and finish a couple of pages in each category. Then use LizNutz's example to revise your first page, titled "people." Make a link from your home page to "people.htm" 10. Create a "Favorite Links" page with at least 12 links and an image for each site.
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