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Comic Life Links and Tips. This is how comic life packages projects for the web. Click on the thumbnail to see a Comic Life project and to find tips, information and resources to help you with your Comic Life projects. Click on the thumbnail at the left to see the fourth page of the slideshow - but with links to the web addresses. This is the example of an animal study using pictures found on the Internet. The planning sheet and idea came from Country Meadows Distict 96 . Download the Animal Planning Sheet (pdf)

Spell with flickr. Please send me comments, suggestions or questions, kastner@gmail.com. I love getting emails about Spell with Flickr - and all my programming projects. It was just a few hours ago that I posted my Goals for 2008 and I'm releasing my first project of the year. It's nothing big, but it was a fun little distraction. The hide-an-image-in-text-with-css3-creator-thing If you're one of those folks who might care about how something like this might work, here's the source. read the rest at Meta | ateM Spell with flick grabs images from flickr (the One Letter and One Digit groups) and uses them to spell what you've typed in.

Wordnik: All the Words. Collaborative storytelling. MixedInk. Font Generator - Make Your Own Handwriting Font With Your Fonts. Logo and Graphics Generator. OurStory.com - Capture your stories, save them permanently. Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds. Free Banner Maker. Speechable - How Many Words Are Your Pictures Worth? - Make Your Own Speech Bubbles. TimeRime.com - Homepage.

Publish your own children's book. Fan fiction. Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couch-bound consumers of media. Media scholar Henry Jenkins explains the correlation between transmedia storytelling and fan fiction:[2] The encyclopedic ambitions of transmedia texts often results in what might be seen as gaps or excesses in the unfolding of the story: that is, they introduce potential plots which can not be fully told or extra details which hint at more than can be revealed.

History[edit] Precursors[edit] Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid may be seen as a very early form of fan fiction. Modern phenomenon[edit] The Star Trek fanzine Spockanalia contained the first fan fiction in the modern sense of the term. Kinks[edit] Tagxedo - Tag Cloud with Styles. Avoiding Plagiarism. OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite. RedKid.Net. You Publish. Get it out there! Beautiful Word Clouds. Tikatok - Kids Activities: Publish a Children's Book with Tikatok. The Site for Books & Readers - Shelfari.

FutureMe.org: letters to the future. ZooBurst.