BoomWriter works well in a computer lab setting where all students can participate at one time.

My Take

I was looking for a tool that would quickly engage students in the writing process and add a little competition to the mix. BoomWriter offers both. You are able to select a pre-written prompts for students and then select the number of chapters that students will write. Students found it very engaging and loved the voting process because it allowed then to read what other students had written. It also encouraged them to become more flexible because when a chapter was declared a winner, students needed to shift gears and write the next chapter off of the winning one. This created some surprising results and increased the creative process and helped students to think more about their writing because other students were reading what they wrote.