issuu.com Online Publishing Tool

Now you can publish your writing or the writing done by your students online by using Issuu. By uploading a PDF, PowerPoint, Word Document, or anything with a PDF, DOC, PPT, ODT, WPD, SXW, RTF, ODP, or SXI extension. Those of us using iWork apps (Pages & KeyNote) need to Export to one of the above type of files. There are several display formats that you can select such as; book, presentation, magazine, newspaper, report, journal, portfolio, essay and manual. Issuu can be embedded as a small presentation, as seen below. To be seen full screen, click on a page. Or you can also embed your presentation, book, magazine, etc., as a larger document if you select Customize. Viewers can also zoom in and zoom out when reading the your publications, as well as download or print it. Another option is that viewers can embed your publications into their blog, wikis, or webpages.

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How could this be used in the classroom? There are some obvious uses of this online publishing site where children can publish their own work such as;

• ebooks of student stories, poetry, or other writings
  
• the class or school newspaper
• presentations of their research

Some other, not so obvious uses could be:

• Student created textbooks
• online digital portfolios
• class literary magazine
• class book reviews

Teachers could use it to publish their own whole units of work that can then be embedded in their own websites or Moodle course. There are so many ways that issuu can be used.