No need to sharpen that pencil!
There are many online tools designed to help people record and produce ideas.
Google Apps for Education
Google Docs, Presentations, Spreadsheets, and Drawing all lend themselves to various elements of thinking and writing. Click here for our workshop, Unleash Google Docs in the Classroom.
Mind Mapping
Graphic organizers, charts, wireframes, storyboards etc. Use for individual organization or collaborative pre-writing. Most can be shared and some charge after three creations.
Lucid Chart / Coggle / Text 2 Mindmap
Word Clouds
Paste your text (essay) into one of the following programs. It will create visual representation of the text used. The most prominent words, those used most often, will be larger than those used less frequently.
Traditional & Creative Writing with New Tools
An online journal / diary that has an appearance of "real"paper. Keep private or share with the world. Autosaves and allows for uploading of photos (flickr direct).
A publishing tool that provides the ability to create dynamic print and digital documents. Connects to Google Accounts. If you would like to go beyond a Google Doc, Lucid Press is the next step.
Easily create an online newspaper.
Electronically publish your documents or books. Free and easy!
Create interactive, branching stories. Note - This tool requires intermediate technology skills.
Web Tools Presentation in Inklewriter
Collaborative book writing with professionals, teachers or other learners. Story starters are provided, then writer produces second chapter. Competition is created by allowing participants to vote on the best second chapter then move on to the third chapter (and so on). A book is published in the end.
Collaborative Writing
Meeting Words - Simple, collaborative text editor
6 Powerful Google Docs Features to Support the Collaborative Writing Process
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Google Books Ngram Viewer (info) | Google Books Ngram Viewer Search (try it)
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