Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
Taking advantage of revolutionary yet readily available technology, Real ePublishing, Really Publishing! will help you transform your classroom into its very own publishing company.
About the Author
Mark W. F. Condon is a teacher educator at the University of Louisville. His roots are in middle and high school language arts teaching, but his love is literacy of all kinds.Michael McGuffee lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. He divides his time among his family, teaching, consulting in schools, and writing books for children.
Table of Contents
Really Publishing?
Voila! Instant Webbes!
Authoring: Where Readers and Writers Meet
Seeing What You Mean: Digital Cameras and Photography
Production and Editorial: Putting It All Together
Printing and Binding: Hey! It's a Book!
Distribution and Promotion: Getting Out the Word . . . and the Picture
Your Emergent Publishing Company
Web Books for Everyone
Appendixes:
A. Webbe Step-by-Step Procedures
B. Annotated Bibliography of Books on Writing and Composition Instruction
C. Webbe Printing Template