Pic Lits

Pic Lits is another website where kids can do some creative writing with the added element of visual pictures.

Go to the Pic Lits website and notice the moving stream of pictures flowing across the top portion. Click on a picture from the stream, and it will appear, enlarged, in the middle of the page. Then you can drag-and-drop words from the bottom of the page or write your own directly onto the picture.

Just quickly brainstorming ideas, these are the lesson plans I've come up with:

1. Quick write: students pick the first picture they see and write something creative as the caption. 
2. Novel summary: students choose an image that depicts the main theme of the story, and then inscribe the theme onto the picture. 
3. Lecture summary: much like #2, but this ideas opens the project up to all subjects -- not just English. 
4. Getting-to-know-you project: Students choose an image that describes themselves, and then writes words to further describe themselves. Perhaps you could display these around the room or on the class website?
5. Bellwork: this bellwork might take a little longer than the "normal" bellwork, but it might be worth a shot maybe once a week. Students choose the first image they see and write whatever pops into their heads. This could be used a little bit like "OneWord," but it includes pictures!