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Informal Writing/Blog Rubric



COMICS/CARTOONS
Chogger
Make Beliefs 
Pixon
Sketchpad 
Tons more ways to make comic strips online!
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  • http://marvel.com/games/play/31/create_your_own_superhero
  • http://www.dolldivine.com/x-girl.php
  • http://www.heromachine.com/heromachine-2-5-character-portrait-creator/
  • https://www.heroized.com/


IMAGES/FONTS
Pics4Learning
Clipart
FontSpace

INFOGRAPHICS
Easel.ly
Infogr.am
Piktochart
Visual-ly
​Canva

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS/SCREENCASTING
iMovie (Mac only)
Animoto (create videos)
Meograph (create videos and record your voice)
Prezi (similar to PowerPoint, but, ah, not)
Screencast-o-matic (record your voice)
Storybird (artful storytelling)
ThingLink (embed media on image)
7 Lessons from the World's Most Captivating Presenters

Creating Animated Presentations
Moovly
Powtoons

PHOTO EDITING AND COLLAGE
BeFunky
Padlet
Movie Posters: http://bighugelabs.com/poster.php 


TIMELINES
Dipity
TikiToki
Timetoast

TIMERTOOLS
PowerPoint Timer (countdown version)

Newspaper Article Templates
RWT Printing Press
Newspaper Generator
Google Docs Templates

3D SKETCHING PROGRAMS
Tinkercad
Autodesk123
SketchUp

ANNOTATION/RESOURCE SHARING
Scribble
Notability (Apple Products Only)
Showbie
AudioBoom
Snagit
MarkUp.io
Zaption
Diigo
Movenote


TAKING NOTES/ORGANIZATION
KustomNote
Google Keep








VIDEO TOOLS
KeepVid (downloads youtube videos)
SafeShare (watch youtube videos without ads)

WEBSITE CREATION
Weebly
Google
Wix
eMaze

WORD CLOUDS
Tagxedo
Wordle

SOME RESEARCH AND LEARNING WEBSITES
John Green's Crash Course
Gapminder - world statistics and data
Open Culture
Picturing America
Smart History - Khan Academy
Ted Ed
TED
WatchKnowLearn
CNN Student News
Discover Magazine
Discovery Education Student Resources
Library of Congress
World Health Organization
National Archives
National Geographic
NewsELA.com
Great Sentences
NYTimes
NYTimes: The Learning Network
Pixar's Rules of Storytelling
Pro/Con.org
Smithsonian Magazine
Student Pulse: The International Student Journal
Wall Street Journal
iCivics
PBS Learning Media - tons of how to videos for different programs


COLLABORATION TOOLS
Voxer
Google Drive
EyeJot (video sharing via email)
Slack


RESEARCH/INQUIRY TOOLS
Instagrok
AudioBoom
Google A Day
TedEd Interactive Question
Zaption
MyWejit
Google Comparisons 
(Google Tip - news:)

CITING SOURCES
Citelighter
EasyBib

JUST PLAIN OL' FUN
Blabberize




Webklipper
SharedCopy