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Online Magazines for Children and Teens-This online article shares the research behind students and online reading as well as providing links for many online magazines for kids.

Use zinepal.com to create your own magazines and eBooks. You can select content from blogs, Atom/RSS feeds and other websites. zinepal.com reformats the content into a printable PDF and an eBook for use with the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. Now you can take your content wherever you go. Read your zine during your commute, in the park or your favorite coffee shop. You can also e-mail it to your friends or just let them subscribe to your zine feed on zinepal.com.

Lets users create email alerts or RSS feeds for any site.

Read twitter as a newspaper using hashtags.

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Recently I wrote about the decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news. I noted that while many people still use RSS ...

Ever heard of an Exquisite Corpse? It's not what you might think. An Exquisite Corpse is an old game in which people write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of it and pass it on to the next player to do the same. The game ends when someone finishes the story, which is then read aloud.

Our "Exquisite Corpse Adventure" works this way: Jon Scieszka, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, has written the first episode, which is "pieced together out of so many parts that it is not possible to describe them all here, so go ahead and just start reading!" He has passed it on to a cast of celebrated writers and illustrators, who must eventually bring the story to an end.

Every two weeks, there will be a new episode and a new illustration. The story will conclude a year from now.

Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

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Multifunctional web service that enables you to do almost anything with RSS feeds. There are 11 different feed tools you can use. Combine multiple RSS feeds, convert feeds into PDF, convert feeds to speech, create a mobile site from any feed, etc

Create and customize your own personal newspaper using feeds from your favorite sites -- Similar to Tabbloid

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Described by Mike Bryant as a Web 1.5 for people almost ready to make the leap to web 2.0. Tabbloid gives you a pdf printable neat magazine-type effect for your favorite urls. For people not ready for Google Reader or a more conventional web 2.0 feeder, this just might be the ticket. It's also a great PR tool; take your student's blogs and tabbloid them; then print and sent out as a newsletter. Great creative uses for this tool in education. Summary by RJ Stangherlin.