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

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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

3. Glossi http://glossi.com/browse/#!/featured

Example of how I have used Glossi

4. Youblisher.com http://www.youblisher.com/

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/

5. Issuu http://issuu.com/

Examples of Issuu

http://issuu.com/mrburrettsclass

Sea Shore poems

http://issuu.com/ukedchat/docs/uked_magazine_jan_2014

UK Ed magazine

6. Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/

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

10. Flipsnack http://edu.flipsnack.com/

11. Google Drive