Categories
Content
- New Alberta image theme with cowboy gophers and zombie cows!
- New Writelike lessons: Persuading with character, emotion, & argument
- New Dragon Images for Lunar New Year
- New Writelike lesson: "Persuasive Context"
- New logical fallacies game prompts in Frankenstories
- New Writelike lesson: "Forms of Evidence"
- Big new Writelike lesson: "Eight Argument Components"
- We've revamped our lesson about nominalisation in history writing
- New Writelike lesson: "Seven Types of Argument"
- New persuasive writing lesson on Writelike: "Two types of reasoning"
- A new collection of history report game prompts for Frankenstories
- New (mostly wacky) Christmas scenes for pre-holiday creative writing
- A new collection of science report game prompts for Frankenstories
- Fun new "cartoonish" images for your Frankenstories games
- Our first collection of poetry prompts for Frankenstories
- New fairytale images for your random Frankenstories games
- New Frankenstories prompts & images for Halloween
- New story structure game templates
- NEW "Teaching Persuasive Writing with Frankenstories" lesson on Writelike
- Teaching Argument Writing with Frankenstories is LIVE
- New Shakespeare prompts
- New lesson: Teaching with Frankenstories
- New lessons: Proofreading and spelling exercises
- New lesson: Complex sentences
- Lesson update: Visualising narrative point of view
- New lesson: Narrative distance
- New lesson: Lists & hierarchies
- New lesson: Valuing and judging
- New lesson: Point of view
- New lesson: Change, cause and effect
- New lesson: Conflict and resolution
- New lessons: Sentence structure
- New lesson: Contrast and juxtaposition
- New lesson: Goals and motivations
- New lessons: Emotion in narrative writing
- New lesson: Dickens' fog
- New lesson: Frankenstein's monster's lament
- New lesson: Mr Darcy at the dance
- New lesson: Macbeth’s ‘Tomorrow’ soliloquy
- New course: Memoir Basics
- New lessons: Genre Packs
- Bringing more of a party feel with Genre Mix lessons
- New course: First person narrative in That Eye, the Sky
- New course: Observing and describing in Storm Boy
- New course: Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix
- New course: Detective comedy with The Falcon's Malteser
- New course: Narrative Basics
- New course: High-concept storytelling with Gone
Features
- New "quality of life" features on Writelike and Frankenstories
- Writelike upgrade this weekend!
- We're upgrading Writelike over the next few months
- New story structure game templates
- How to do all the cool stuff in Frankenstories
- New feature: Student codes
- New feature: Wrotevote
- New feature: Group social feeds in lessons
- Coming soon: Curriculum mapping!
- New feature: Students can highlight their own responses
- New feature: Experimental vocabulary support
News
- New Dragon Images for Lunar New Year
- Frankenstories wins Gold for Best Educational Game 2023
- Writelike upgrade this weekend!
- We're upgrading Writelike over the next few months
- Free online teacher PD sessions
- "No Man's Land": Round 1 of NYC Midnight 250-word Microfiction
- "They Move As One": Round 3 of NYC Midnight 48hr Flash
- Holiday creative writing camps
- Team Frankenstories' progress in NYC Midnight's 48hr Flash Fiction Competition
- Using Frankenstories to create competition flash fiction
- Lesson update: Visualising narrative point of view
- Frankenstories is live!
- Follow Writelike on social media
- It lives! After a multi-year hiatus, Writelike is back in development!
Advice for educators
- Going further with fragmentary details
- Helping struggling writers by focusing on fragments
- Getting better results from DALLE3 by art directing with narrative detail
- New fairytale images for your random Frankenstories games
- Generating fairytale images with DALLE3 & ChatGPT
- Teaching Argument Writing with Frankenstories is LIVE
- "No Man's Land": Round 1 of NYC Midnight 250-word Microfiction
- "They Move As One": Round 3 of NYC Midnight 48hr Flash
- Team Frankenstories' progress in NYC Midnight's 48hr Flash Fiction Competition
- Using Frankenstories to create competition flash fiction
- Frankenstories as video scripts
- New lessons: Onboarding
- New info: How to teach with Writelike
- Help us prove whether or not Writelike works
Frankenstories
- New Alberta image theme with cowboy gophers and zombie cows!
- New Dragon Images for Lunar New Year
- New logical fallacies game prompts in Frankenstories
- Frankenstories wins Gold for Best Educational Game 2023
- A new collection of history report game prompts for Frankenstories
- New (mostly wacky) Christmas scenes for pre-holiday creative writing
- A new collection of science report game prompts for Frankenstories
- Fun new "cartoonish" images for your Frankenstories games
- Our first collection of poetry prompts for Frankenstories
- New fairytale images for your random Frankenstories games
- Generating fairytale images with DALLE3 & ChatGPT
- New Frankenstories prompts & images for Halloween
- New story structure game templates
- How to do all the cool stuff in Frankenstories
- NEW "Teaching Persuasive Writing with Frankenstories" lesson on Writelike
- Teaching Argument Writing with Frankenstories is LIVE
- New Shakespeare prompts
- "No Man's Land": Round 1 of NYC Midnight 250-word Microfiction
- "They Move As One": Round 3 of NYC Midnight 48hr Flash
- Team Frankenstories' progress in NYC Midnight's 48hr Flash Fiction Competition
- Using Frankenstories to create competition flash fiction
- Frankenstories as video scripts
- New lesson: Teaching with Frankenstories
- Frankenstories updates: Art history theme packs and some improvements
- Frankenstories updates: New teacher panel
- Frankenstories updates: New theme packs and more!
- Frankenstories updates: Hall of Fame, FS Discord server, and more!
- Frankenstories is live!