Real ePublishing, Really Publishing!: How to Create Digital Books by and for All Ages

By Michael McGuffee and Mark W.F. Condon

Visit the "Real ePublishing" website All children believe that they can write a book. Here, at long last, is a handbook that will enable them to do so - and now they can publish the book too. Taking advantage of revolutionary yet readily available technology, "Real ePublishing, Really Publishing " will help you transform your classroom into its very own publishing company. All you need are a computer, word processor, digital camera, color printer, and access to the Internet. A new genre of publication, webbes (Web Books for Everyone) are simple nonfiction picture books. Matching meaningful text with digital photography, these e-publications are a natural means for celebrating and documenting the activities of any curricular unit. Just as important, they offer students across all grade levels a new, more exciting way to write about their everyday lives. These compositions, in any language - even in two - invite writers from every ethnicity, social class, and language group in a school to see publication as a natural part of literacy learning and its complement to developing content concepts. "Real ePublishing, Really Publishing " offers clear and abundant illustrations to guide you in the step-by-step creation of these multimedia texts. You'll learn everything you need to know about the basics of classroom e-publication and digital photography, creating with your students colorful printed paperback books that can be shared digitally within schools or across the Internet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325003203
• ISBN13: 9780325003207
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.2" x 7.3"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 8