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Markin - on-screen marking and annotation software for teachers What Is Markin? Teachers working in modern, on-line learning environments need computer-based tools for marking their students' work, and Markin is an ideal solution for most electronic marking applications. If your students submit their work electronically, as document files and/or via email, you need to be able to mark and return these documents just as quickly and easily as you can mark work submitted on paper - and in some cases more quickly. This is what Markin is designed to do. How Does Markin Work? Markin is a Windows program which runs on the teacher's computer. When marking is complete, Markin saves it as an XHTML document, in which the teacher's marks and annotations appear as coloured text. Markin can also export the marked work as a RTF file, which is more suitable for students who want to view it as a printout. To find out more, please read the Features page, or have a look at the online tutorial videos. Free Download and Registration
Creative Writing 1) Writing Traditional Stories from a Different Point of View 2) Design a New Room for the Chocolate Factory 3) Godzilla This idea is based on the Godzilla introduction found here Read the introduction to the children (you might need to photocopy it so that the children can refer to it during their writing) and ask them to continue the story. 4) Missing Person The following activity is great fun, and usually produces great results, but must be used with caution. Choose a name for a missing person (e.g. Ask the children where "Paul" is. Finally, say that as Paul is missing, we will have to make some missing person posters, explaining who Paul is (with a picture so others can identify him!) A missing person poster template can be found in PDF format here 5) Supermoo's New Adventures 6) Recipes for Dreams 7) Dr. This activity is based on the Dr. Read through some of the books in the series. The children should write their own Dr. 8) Class Mascot Activity 9) When I am famous... 13) Using Objects
Creative Writing 101: A Beginner's Guide to Creative Writing Creative writing is any form of writing which is written with the creativity of mind: fiction writing, poetry writing, creative nonfiction writing and more. The purpose is to express something, whether it be feelings, thoughts, or emotions. Rather than only giving information or inciting the reader to make an action beneficial to the writer, creative writing is written to entertain or educate someone, to spread awareness about something or someone, or to express one’s thoughts. There are two kinds of creative writing: good and bad, effective and ineffective. Bad, ineffective creative writing cannot make any impression on the reader. It won’t achieve its purpose. So whether you’re a novelist, a poet, a short-story writer, an essayist, a biographer or an aspiring beginner, you want to improve your craft. When you write great fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, amazing things can happen. So here you have it, a beginners’ guide from Writers’ Treasure: Are you an aspiring novelist? Services
UCR: Department of Creative Writing In the moonlight a worm... (Welcome to the Haiku Homepage)