Have students select their favorite author quotes and write them down. They then can cut out letters from magazines, newspapers and other sources so that the letters for each word of the quote comes from a new source. The students can then spell our the entire quote using different letters, some smaller and some bigger. This will make for both an inspiring and colorful bulletin board.
For a bulletin board that can be used as more of a gallery, have each student type a poem onto a sheet of paper. The poems can be on a specific topic so that they each are different versions of the same main idea. This can give the students a chance to look at how other writers interpret things differently. They then can paste their poems onto small black construction paper. Then, paste the poems onto the board.
Prepare an empty bulletin board covered with a light-colored piece of giant paper. For a week or two, ask the students to post interesting statements to the board. These can be creative writing ideas, overheard sentence, funny or useful words, inspiring mottos, foreign language sayings and lines from their work. Later, ask the students to go to the board and write a piece based off of ideas from the board. In this way, the students benefit from collective inspiration.
Teach students about cultural literature by having them write a short story or poem using one sentence in another language or cultural elements in their work. Assign each student a different country and ask them look at that country's ways of life, words and ideas. This will inspire them to think on a global level. Then, have the students cut out little photos of the countries they were assigned. Have them post the poems or stories to the bulletin board, with the country tacked to the side. Each student can see what everyone else wrote about, while learning about another country.