Nowadays instead of keeping your students’ writing confined to an exercise book in the classroom let your students use free web-based tools to make the most beautiful online creations. These tools are very simple to use and have friendly interfaces. This keeps students engaged and gives them a sense of achievement as they can easily share their work with their families and friends. The webinar will cover free applications such as Glossi, Youblisher, Microsoft Photostory 3, Slideshare, Authorstream, Slideboom and several others.

1. Great web-based sites (or free
applications) for publishing
your students’ writing online
By Fiona Beal from SchoolNet

4. Blogs
• Elkanah House Senior Primary
• Miss Tyler Smith’s blog
http://m9-12.blogspot.com/

5. Wikis to display work
http://therockacademy.wikispaces.com/Visit+the+Grade+Wiki%27s%21

7. 1. Blog platforms for students’ own
work
• Kidblog for Grades 2-4
• Edublogs for Grades 4-7
• Blogger or WordPress for older students

8. 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

9. http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf

11. http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf

12. http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf

13. http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf

14. http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf

15. Summary of Photostory 3
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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.

16. 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%2
0charge%20of%20the%20world.wmv

18. Ideas for using Photostory 3
http://21stcenturyteaching.pbworks.com/w/page/833439/Ideas%20for%20Photostory%20
3%20Projects

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

22. Example of how I have used Glossi

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

25. How I have used Youblisher
An example of Youblisher
http://www.youblisher.com/p/746542-There-s-a-zoo-in-myschool/

26. African Storybook Project wiki
http://africanstorybookproject.wikispaces.com/

27. Ideas for using Youblisher by others
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/550920-Our-LoveBook-by-Grade-1-Roberts/
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/465168-ChristmasCheer/
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/451668-Kleure/

28. 5. Issuu
http://issuu.com/

29. Examples of Issuu
http://issuu.com/mrburrettscla
ss
http://issuu.com/ukedchat/docs
/uked_magazine_jan_2014
Sea Shore poems
UK Ed magazine

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

31. http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11

32. Students can upload PowerPoints or
PDFs to SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/sasmerritt/grade-6-nutrition-ppt

33. 7. AuthorSTREAM
http://www.authorstream.com/

34. AuthorSTREAM examples
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/brandyheller1-2064299-tech-digital-storytelling-final/
You can add
sound

35. 8. Scribd
http://bookstoafrica.edublogs.org/2013/04/12/a-little-learning-aboutlions/#comment-91

36. 9. Slideboom
http://www.slideboom.com/
• My examples

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

39. 11. Google Drive