Online Publishing Websites
Fodey.com allows students to write fun captions and articles that are pasted into unique templates. Students can write a news article that generates to look like an authentic news story complete with dateline and headline. Students can also also use the website to provide dialogue for a squirrel, owl, flower, or tomato, or have authentic text written by a ninja or wizard.
Papyrus is an online editor that allows you to create your own ebooks and then sell them via Gumroad. Students can choose their own themes and covers, import content, and share their books in pdf, epub, and Kindle formats. Users can gauge reader interest and invite their classmates to work together in real time on the same book.
Figment is a website that is good for students who are eager or independent writers, like to work with peers, and have specific genre interests. The website allows students to write and post stories, add cover images, and comment, discuss, and collaborate with other writers. Teachers can set up private groups for their classrooms and help students enter contests through the site.
Flipsnack allows you to publish online magazines and transform your .pdfs into interactive online flip books. Students can use an external software program to create layouts with written content and images and then upload the .pdfs onto the site. Publications can be accessed from any platform and students and teachers can collaborate and share their work with parents and colleagues. Completed flip books can be embedded on any website or blog.
Lulu is a website that allows you to self-publishing your writing. Writers can create e-books from Microsoft Word or RTF documents and control how their work is printed and distributed. Students can sell hard cover copies or digital versions for Nook, Kindle, and iBook. The site offers resources such as cover design, interior book design, copyright registration and editorial review.
Glogster is a web tool that allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of a subject by creating an interactive poster, or glog, that illustrates the information they learned. Glog (short for graphic blog) is an online interface for mixing text, audio, video, images, graphics, animations, links, and more. Glogster EDU allows teachers and students to use blogs as instructional aids and share their blogs in a private classroom. The program lets teachers access digital educational content and create projects, presentations and assignments, grade students’ work and communicate with students online.