Publishing Student Work- Also posted in our Sept. Literacy Letter

Students love to publish their projects online and share them with their family and friends. Here are some ideas you could use to publish, share and celebrate your students’ work. Together we can give these web 2.0 publishing sites a try. Email me to set up a time where we can see which one will work best for your students.

 

· Animoto: https://animoto.com Create your free educator account and post book reports, and summaries. This site installs all the transitions and you can choose from their music for background.

· Bookworm:   http://www.bookworm-mag.com Magazine publishes the stories, poems, essays and artwork of kids ages six through fifteen.

· StoryKit:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storykit/id329374595?mt=8   application puts student work online privately in a format that can viewed by iPhone.

· Storybird:  http://storybird.com Use the art on the site to illustrate or inspire student storytelling. Good for elementary students or those writing for them.

· Stapleless Book: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/stapleless-book-30010.html At this interactive site, students follow the prompts to produce their own books. Students can work with bulleted lists, headlines, and text; they can leave space to add pictures after printing. Everything prints out on one piece of paper. Follow the instructions to fold and cut.

· Yudu:  http://www.yudu.com This resource lets you upload all sorts of content including Word documents and PDFs. It will quickly convert the documents into an impressive virtual magazine with flipping pages. Account creation is optional but an email address is required. You can also set privacy settings to public or private.

· Issuu:   http://issuu.com  Pronounced "issue", is another option to upload almost any document format and transform it into a virtual flipping book. Of course, you can share and or embed the resulting creation. For example, you can embed the book on your classroom homepage or wiki.

· Lulu:   http://www.lulu.com Online publishing for books. You could publish a book written by all your students on poetry or perhaps a class recipe book. There are countless ideas on their site.