Web Writing Projects
Fake iPhone Text
http://www.fakeiphonetext.com/
Click Create and fakeiphonetext.com will generate a picture that resembles actual text on an iphone.
My Fake Wall
create a fake facebook page about a historical or literary character. You can include people your character would have been friends with, geographical information, educational background, groups they would have joined, family members.
Here is a Word Template if you prefer
You may have heard of twitter which is a social networking site. You can post short blocks of text called tweets. You are limited to 140 characters per tweet.
Result without customization:
A few more fun things:
http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en type or paste in a block of text, click choose male or female voice, click create mp3
You know those URLs that are two miles long and by the time the student has typed it in, found their spelling error and gotten to the correct site, the class period is nearly up and both of you are frustrated and tired?? No more!!
Go to either of these sites and type or paste in your long URL one time. A cute, short, tiny little address will be created that you can give your students and they will be rocking along on that website in no time!
http://bit.ly/
http://tiny.cc/
I hope you have fun with this – I did!