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 * Module E: Ways students can use ICT to create**

One of the most exciting uses of technology is as a tool that students can use to create original texts. You can open end and differentiate assessment by encouraging students to present information or create texts in any medium of production. This empowers students by giving them choice and access to a diverse and rich range of programs and websites.

Imagine that instead of a student being asked to write a narrative in word, they are invited to create a digital text that features images, sounds and transitions that represent the mood and themes of the story. Even students who struggle with story writing develop confidence in their ability to craft an original text.

Creating a written text using technology is effective for the following reasons:
 * **Confidence:** Spell check and online thesauruses
 * **Inspiration:** Images and models online
 * **Planning**: Storylines can be planned using graphic organisers such as Webspiration
 * **Craft to artistry:** Leads to a refinement of the writing process
 * **Vocabulary:** Online thesauruses
 * **Refinement:** Self and peer editing through insert word
 * **Collaboration and reflection**: Blogs and wikis where students and the teacher make suggestions

**Suggestions**
 * Book or film trailers using Moviemaker, Premier, iMovie or [|Stupeflix]
 * Digital narratives using Photostory, Moviemaker or Power Point
 * Podcasts using Soundbooth, Audacity or Garage Band
 * Avatars using Voki.com: [|Voki] or Build your wild self: [|Build your wild self]
 * Twitter texts
 * Google Littrips: [|Lit Home]
 * Online cartoons: Go-animate: [|goanimate]; Make Belief Comics: [|makebelief]; Xtranormal: [|Xtranormal Comics]; Toondoo: [|Toondoo]; Superheroes: [|Create own superhero]
 * Garfield comics: [|Comic Creator]
 * Play or film script or graphic novel using Celtx: [|Celtx]
 * Digital Timeline: [|Dipity]
 * Performance poetry recorded as a podcast
 * Weather or travel reports as podcasts
 * Interactive fiction: [|Text based game design]
 * Museum Box: [|Museum Box]

**Resources**
 * Inspire great writing through extracts: [|Extracts from novels]
 * Tutorial on how to use Audacity: [|Audacity Tutorial]
 * Grammar skills: [|Grammar]; Grammar Monster: [|Grammar Monster]; Cybergrammar: [|Fabulous grammar site]
 * Online Thesaurus: [|Visuwords]
 * Vocabulary: [|Vocabulary exercises]
 * Skillwise: [|Games, quizzes etc]
 * Digitales: [|BBC Tales]; [|Digitales]; [|Photobus]; [|Changing Lives]
 * Ideas in a word document:
 * Assessment Task example: [[file:Assessment Task.docx]]