Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label emagazine

Writing for others beyond the classroom

Perhaps it is familiarity breeds contempt, or maybe it is just familiarity breeds a giving break. Either way, we do know that students will work harder on their writing when they know that what they are writing is going to be read by more than just their teacher, their parent, or the student next to them. So as the school year is ending and you are thinking about what to do next year, think about having your students produce and publish their work and put it out to the world. Below are two articles about how teachers have gotten their students to activity publish their work either as books or magazines. If you want to try some book publishing yourself (or with your students), you might want to start with a tool like StoryBird (https://storybird.com/), there you can write your story, then have it published into their digital library, and if you really want to you can even buy a printed (soft- or hard-cover) copy of the book for your shelves - or the school library's collection. ...

eMags

Yes I love books and think that they are wonderful things, but others may like to read  things like newpapers and magazines. I'm usually for anything that encourages reading. If you are trying to use some of these online magazine sites with an ebook device, it would be possible to use an application like "read it later" to convert the web pages to document files. Here are a few educational journal sites from publishers and organizations provide free online content, including articles and media about current events, some of which are generated by students themselves.   Time for Kids ,  Weekly Reader ,  National Geographic Kids , and  Science News for Kids