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Great web-based sites (or free
applications) for publishing your students’ writing online
By Fiona Beal from SchoolNet
Blogs
• Elkanah House Senior Primary
• Miss Tyler Smith’s blog http://m9-12.blogspot.com/
Wikis to display work http://therockacademy.wikispaces.com/Visit+the+Grade+Wiki%27s%21
1. Blog platforms for students’ own
work
• Kidblog for Grades 2-4
• Edublogs for Grades 4-7
• Blogger or WordPress for older students
2. Microsoft Photostory 3
• Lovely site for making photostories with words and pictures
• Can be downloaded from PIL Network
• ‘Using Microsoft Photostory 3’ by David Jakes. Instructional Technology Coordinator. Community High School District 99. Downers Grove.
http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf
Summary of Photostory 3
• Add and rearrange photos
• Write on photos
• Choose transitions
• Narrate voice
• Create own music with their tools
• Add own music
• Save as a movie and upload to YouTube, blog, wiki, etc.
How I have used Photostory 3
• Global projects – students introduce themselves using Photostory 3
• Poem ‘If I were in charge of the world’ narrated on to a Photostory.
*Find suitable royalty free images
*Add background music created in Photostory3
*Narrate into the photostory
*Example: http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/literacy/PDFPoetry/if%20I%20were%20in%20charge%20of%20the%20world.wmv
Ideas for using Photostory 3 http://21stcenturyteaching.pbworks.com/w/page/833439/Ideas%20for%20Photostory%20
3%20Projects
Example of how I have used Glossi
How I have used Youblisher
An example of Youblisher http://www.youblisher.com/p/746542-There-s-a-zoo-in-my-school/
African Storybook Project wiki http://africanstorybookproject.wikispaces.com/
Ideas for using Youblisher by others
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/550920-Our-Love-Book-by-Grade-1-Roberts/
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/465168-Christmas-Cheer/
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/451668-Kleure/
Examples of Issuu
http://issuu.com/mrburrettsclass
Sea Shore poems
http://issuu.com/ukedchat/docs/uked_magazine_jan_2014
UK Ed magazine
http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11
Students can upload PowerPoints or
PDFs to SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/sasmerritt/grade-6-nutrition-ppt
7. AuthorSTREAM http://www.authorstream.com/
AuthorSTREAM examples http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/brandyheller1-2064299-tech-digital-storytelling-final/
You can add sound
8. Scribd http://bookstoafrica.edublogs.org/2013/04/12/a-little-learning-about-
lions/#comment-91
9. Slideboom http://www.slideboom.com/
• My examples
11. Google Drive