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"Explore the YUDU library to read online magazines, free eBooks and other digital content. Browse thousands of free digital magazines or buy your favourite titles in the YUDU Store. Self publish your own digital magazines, eBooks, digital brochures and more with our free publisher software. Simply upload your PDFs and other documents to create search engine friendly page-turning publications that can be added to your website or sent out on email. Create your own personalised library to store and share your digital magazines and other content. " Looks like a good way to "publish" things for your students to read, or for them to publish their own projects as a class magazine.

Create ejournals and ebooks for free; explore the YUDU library of free books and magazines to see how it would look to self-publish. A great way to have your students publish their own works.

Download books in public domain or publish your own book and distribute it to many different reading platforms.

Looks like a great way to self-publish your own text, or have your students create an online portfolio of their work. Directions are very simple and clear, right on the frontpage., and the tool has a full suite of editing tools.

This software helps learners develop their basic paragraph writing skills. Students learn how to write an effective paragraph -- developed by reason, detail, sequence, example, and cause and effect. The full version of the software provides 15 interactive writing activities on a variety of topics. Choosing from a menu of topics, students are guided to generate ideas, write a topic sentence, body of a paragraph, and a conclusion. Each interactive activity includes the following steps: pre-writing, writing, organizing, revising, rewriting, and publishing. The software is a great tool for assessment and self-assessment, for individual practice, and may be especially useful in classes where a teacher is not able to provide personal attention to individual student. -- From Lena Shvidko The focus on process in writing is important, from pre-writing to developing an idea. Would probably be appropriate for both young and adult learners.

A set of G-slides that can be used for writing a novel. This approach really works with short stories and poetry, and over the course of a semester or year term would work for a longer effort. Makes a great project for group effort as well. My niece wrote a novel in 2nd year of secondary school, and self-published on Amazon. Great idea for teaching writing, critical thinking, and long-range planning.

Have your class make an e-book, including photos, videos, and of course, text. Set Lulu to "private" and give the password only to families of the students so they can share in the creativity.