Verse by Verse

Verse by Verse is an excellent site for creating poetry that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog.  The way this works is a student selects a famous Poet and then types the first line and Verse by Verse's AI generates ideas for writing the next line.

I highly recommend checking out Verse by Verse by clicking here!!!

The Writing Bee is Back

The Writing Bee is back and this year it promises to be another global event with over 100 school districts participating and results being presented at this year's SXSW EDU Conference in Austin, TX!

The 2019 Writing Bee kicks off this February and will feature American Writer, filmmaker, poet, activist, educator, Academy Award nominee, and former Black Panther Party member, Jamal Joseph. Professor Joseph will serve as The Writing Bee's featured Guest Author providing guidance and inspiration to all participating students throughout the event as they create original spoken-word oriented content.  There is so much excitement about this Bee that SXSW has asked Professor Joseph to present the results.

This is the third consecutive year of the Writing Bee, which is free to schools and hosted on BoomWriter's unique content-generation platform.  District/school-based Writing Bee Qualifying rounds consist of three sections, with each one open to all students and initiated by a prompt provided by the featured guest author to help guide students.  Once they have completed their writing sessions, students again log in to BoomWriter to review the anonymous submissions of fellow participants and cast votes for their favorites.  A winning submission is identified, and the process continues until The Writing Bee is completed.

Winners and top vote-getters of the Qualifying rounds will be invited to participate in The Writing Bee Finals.  The Finals will consist of "knockout rounds" in which only the section winner and top vote-getters advance to the subsequent rounds and a chance to become The 2019 Writing Bee Champion.

Christ Twyman, CEO and co-founds of BoomWriter Media, Inc., said, "At BoomWriter, we've always taken great pride in our products' ability to connect with all types of students regardless of whether they are passionate or reluctant writers.  By partnering with Jamal Joseph and having students write entries that are intended to be spoken out loud, I know both BoomWriter and The Writing Bee will have its greatest impact ever!"

The Writing Bee Qualifying rounds will take place in participating schools and/or districts any time between February and May with The Writing Bee Finals scheduled to be conducted in June.

Jamal Joseph intro...



To learn more and register your students for free, please visit TheWritingBee.Org or email megan@boomwriter.com.  You never know, the next Writing Bee champion could be one of your own students and there's only one way to find out.  Good luck!

National Poetry Month on BoomWriter

BoomWriter has a bunch of wonderful activities that can be done in WordWriter and StoryWriter for National Poetry Month.  Educators can use WordWriter to download their vocabulary sheet filled w/ key terms about poetry and poem structure to create engaging activities.  Also, they can use the StoryWriter Poem Lesson Plan to create collaborative poems w/ their students.

I highly recommend checking out BoomWriter for poetry activities by clicking here!!!

*BoomWriter is a advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

BoomWriter Poetry Month

BoomWriter one of my favorite web 2.0 sites for collaborative writing (in a safe and innovative way) has just released some educational resources ideal for Poetry Month.  They have a Poetry guide and activity pack that can be downloaded for free for registered users.  The activity pack comes w/ fill-in-the-blank poems that students can use to come up w/ their own unique take on the same poem.  Teachers can even use the Poetry lesson plan to create a collaborative poetry book and then get it published into an actual book.

Here is more from their website, "Here at BoomWriter, we’re passionate about writing - any and all forms - and poetry is one of the best ways to express creativity and share stories. Poetry is also perfect for passionate and reluctant writers alike because there are so many ways to approach crafting poems - there’s a form for everybody!"

I highly recommend checking out BoomWriter Poetry resources by clicking here!!!