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E. Calameo: For The Students: This Is A Great Tool For Learning About Design and Layout

The document discusses 10 different online publishing tools for students: 1. Calameo - Allows creation of e-magazines with multimedia and branding. Good for design projects. 2. Tikatok - Creative publishing studio for K-6 students to make digital and printed books. Aligned with Common Core. 3. Storybird - Creates storybooks by combining student writing with artist illustrations. Used in hundreds of thousands of classrooms. 4. Lulu - Self-publishing platform for creating print books, ebooks, photo books and more. Graduate students have published theses on Lulu. 5. Flipsnack - Flipbook creator by uploading a PDF or images. Renders shareable

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E. Calameo: For The Students: This Is A Great Tool For Learning About Design and Layout

The document discusses 10 different online publishing tools for students: 1. Calameo - Allows creation of e-magazines with multimedia and branding. Good for design projects. 2. Tikatok - Creative publishing studio for K-6 students to make digital and printed books. Aligned with Common Core. 3. Storybird - Creates storybooks by combining student writing with artist illustrations. Used in hundreds of thousands of classrooms. 4. Lulu - Self-publishing platform for creating print books, ebooks, photo books and more. Graduate students have published theses on Lulu. 5. Flipsnack - Flipbook creator by uploading a PDF or images. Renders shareable

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e.

Calameo

https://en.calameo.com

If students are looking to do magazines, Calameo is the tool to use. It’s an


online e-magazine publishing tool that lets you add multimedia and personal
branding to anything you create. With one-click publishing, you can share it
instantly. Websites, social media, and more all integrate with Calameo.

For the Students: This is a great tool for learning about design and layout
for magazines. It’s perfect for smaller writing projects, like a brochure or flyer
design. Students writing for the school paper can link to custom publications.
They can even promote their own series of e-magazine using Calameo.

f. Tikatok

https://tikatok.com

This is a creative publishing studio for young children. K – 6 kids will love
Tikatok. They can use it to publish digital and printed books of all kinds. Tikatok
was designed specifically for the K – 6 classroom. It’s media literacy-oriented
and aligned with Common Core. Take a look at their subscriptions page for
plans.

For the Students: Kids can upload their photos and drawings for their
creations. They can also take advantage of preloaded project templates for
classroom lessons. Tikatok’s digital library contains lots of ideas to get kids
inspired.

g. Storybird

https://storybird.com

This online publishing tool brings your words and global artists’ work
together in amazing storybooks. Be sure to check out the section for educators.
Storybird is at work in hundreds of thousands of classrooms all over the world.
It’s free for educators, now and forever. Take a look at what’s possible with this
tool.

For the Students: Students can create storybooks, long chapter books,
and poetry books with Storybird. They also have a fundraising program for
students to get into. This is a great way to use creativity for raising money for
great causes.

h. Lulu
http://www.lulu.com/us/en/create/ebooks

Lulu was one of the first players that offered serious online publishing
features. They can established themselves in 2002 and they’re greatly expanded
their interface over the last few years. Everything you need to know about doing
online publishing is right here. They offer tutorials, resources, guides, and more
to learn with.

For the Students: Lulu is a great information database for self-publishing.


They can create all sorts of projects. These include print books, ebooks, photo
books, and calendars. Check out this article on how graduate students are even
using Lulu for publishing a thesis.

i. Flipsnack

https://www.flipsnack.com

Flipsnack is a flip book creator. It’s as simple as uploading a PDF file. It


also supports PNG and JPG files. It renders shareable interactive creations that
can also include multimedia. Flipsnack looks a great across all online platforms
and social media.

For the Students: this is a simple way to create and share a publication
that has a unique look and feel. Flipsnack lets students upload 3 publications of
15 pages each on their free plan. Paid plans are quite reasonable and offer lots
more features.

j. Penzu

https://penzu.com

Online journaling is the focus of Penzu and it works well, journaling is a


great writing and self-reflective exercise. With a free online tool like Penzu, it
becomes a more appealing. The interface replicates an old leather-bound journal
with lined paper. The basic formatting features are everything you need to get
started. Upload photos to your journals, too. You can also Go Pro for even more
features.

For the Students: With Penzu Classroom, you can create class journals
that can be graded and managed. Students can also submit diary entries by
email. They can receive comments from their teacher right inside the journal.
Create and send assignments to students with the data, grading scheme, and
more.
If you decide to let your students’ works to be hosted by your institutions’
official website, this can also be. Today, there are a lot of academic institutions
whose website serves as their information dissemination center for their
customers and stakeholders. Barton et. al. (2002) state that there are two
fundamental stages in creating a website or web pages. First, the page files and
all associated images, sounds, and so forth must be created in the proper format
and tested. Second, the file must all be transferred to a host computer called web
server.

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