Plot Bot

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Sep 08 2007

Posted at 8:00 pm under Blogging Tools, web 2.0, writing

The PlotBot website is fun, easy to use and would be a wonderful addition to any classroom writing programme. This web 2.0 tool allows you to quickly and easily write scripts and more than one person can be part of the project. Imagine planning out a story outline as a class and then the kids take turns on the computer writing sections of the script. You could then print them off and workshop them and you could easily go back on and change sections that didn’t work as well as others. The tool gives you instructions on how a script works and does all the formatting for you making it just a case of selecting whether you are adding an action or dialogue section and then typing away.

I have also used ScribeFire to complete this post. I have had this Firefox extension for quite a long time but have only just had a look at it in the last couple of days in more detail. You click on a small icon at the bottom of your browser window and it pops open with an area to type your blog entry. You can drag in items or blocks of text from the website that you are blogging about and then click publish without ever needing to actually visit your blog.

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Janettaon 09 Sep 2007 at 6:26 am 1

Thanks for the ScribeFire description and link. Sounds great. I’ve just installed it.
Marnie Thomason 09 Sep 2007 at 1:39 pm 2

Sounds like a good idea - I am teaching narrative next term as was planning to do the usual write a line then pass it on for the next person to do a line - using this digital option would be much more fun!!