Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Tech Tip: Story Starter Apps for Writing across the Curriculum


Story Starters – Ideas for Writing (an aptly named app) is published by Jarrod Robinson and costs only ninety-nine cents. This app features intriguing pictures to help kick start the creative writer within us all. Use it as a springboard for a short story, a mathematics word problem, or a discussion in any subject area.

For example the picture below could be used to:
  • Write a story explaining why the crate is there.
  • Write a math word problem to find the volume or surface area of the crate.
  • Imagine and write about the world surrounding the crate.
  • Come up with a list of practical uses for the crate.

Oflow, another ninety-nine cent app, lists over 100 methods to get your creativity flowing. View one a day whenever you need a bit of inspiration, or scan through several until the right one fires your writing neutrons into action.



And since the Oflow image mentions it, Idea Sketch, a free app from No Sleep Software, is a simple mind map making tool. Use it to:
  • Brainstorm
  • Free write on a topic
  • Flowchart a process (order of operations)
  • Categorize terms or objects (equations, quadrilaterals, fractions and their equivalents)



Have fun with these idea generators. Be inspired and imagine greater than ever before.

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