How about this as a cool way to engage students in writing in an English class? Flickr is an online photo storage and publishing tool that allows you to easily upload and display photos for all the world to see. It's becoming very popular, and people are posting all sorts of random photos. Now the trend is towards flicktion, which is fiction based on Flickr photos. You just upload a random photo, and students try to write a fictitious story that might explain the photo. Cool idea! To read more, go to an article on weblogg-ed, or check out some fliction pieces here.
By the way, we had a really cool Blogging story started one week, and I'm dying to hear what happens to the hero and the girl of his dreams that he just bloodied accidentally on the way to his test! Let's continue the saga! I'm posting the direct link back to this story, and encourage to continue adding your voices to the tale (and if you haven't read it yet, do -- we've got some creative people in class).
The Eternal Tale link -- http://teach2edify.blogspot.com/2004/10/eternal-tale.html
