Hop! Writing
© 2007 Cyberlude
Hop! Writing is a story writing software program designed to encourage literary creativity and help students compose structured stories. It offers tools to help students become conscious of the writing process and turn their starting ideas into real, professional looking books. The software features seven screens: Work Schedule (shows what has been produced so far and what still needs to be done); Narrative Project (to prepare and determine the focus of the writing project); Characters, Places and Objects (to create descriptive file cards for the story's main elements); Vocabulary and Strategies (to create synonym and strategy file cards); Storyline (to spread out the narrative's events over the story's timeline); Manuscript (to draft a story without restrictions while following the storyline); and Page Setup (to add images and prepare the printing of the book). In addition, Hop! Writing also features databanks of random ideas, a directory of linking words, worksheets to further explore the narrative's elements, and assessment and verification grids. The price of $35 is for the home version on one computer. Additional options for schools are: $80 for one computer; $350 for a lab of five computers; $425 for a site license (less than 400 students); and $625 for a site license of more than 400 students.
$35, Windows, Mac OSX
Teaches: writing, creativity