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"Vook is an intuitive and easy-to-use cloud-based eBook publishing platform. Quickly create, edit, style and publish your eBook-no special software required. You can use Vook to build an eBook out of a Word document or an existing ePub file. Once you've built your eBook to your satisfaction, you can distribute to our Vook Store - where we pay you 85% of the net royalty of any transaction - and, if you'd like, pay a one-time, $99 fee to distribute your eBook to Amazon, BN, and iBooks  through our Vook account. For eBooks we distribute for you to Amazon, BN and iBooks, we pay you 100% of the royalties we receive back from the distribution channel."

"Live Gaming provides a unique way for online brands, publishers and bloggers to keep their readers actively engaged and entertained. Build audience duration and social interaction; allow Readers to make predictions, win points for answering questions, and bet those points on real-time outcomes. Live Gaming creates a second interactive event within the main one, and makes the overall event experience even more relevant and rewarding. To set up a new Game simply publish a new Trivia or Bet from the Polls & Interactive tab in your Console. "

"Create: bring "flat" PowerPoint® slides to life with your webcam, microphone Edit: make changes, without the need for video editing software or skills Share: publish instantly to private spaces or your social networks"

Talking about plagiarism is as easy as apple pie. And thanks to the recent controversy surrounding an article published in Cooks Source magazine, we now have a great way to start the classroom discussion.

I am still struggling with what we really should be calling the Blogs at Penn State initiative. When we were making the case for investing in a platform I made the call for us think critically about how we should be thinking about this opportunity as so m

Are ebooks going to go mainstream with Amazon becoming a de facto distribution monopoly? Or is a marketplace characterized by many different players and options looming still on the horizon?

is online game software that allows people to create cool games and publish them on the web. Sploder™ even allows you to easily put Flash games on your site without having to learn Flash.

To overcome these challenges, and in order to develop a sustainable model for OER production and use, UWC is planning to shift its OER publishing strategy to more closely involve students. We are intending to use the model of "dScribes" that was developed

Still in doubt about whether to get an Amazon Kindle? Not fully convinced that these new ebook reader devices have the form factor and usability traits you are expecting? John Blossom has taken the time to go out and borrow an Amazon Kindle from his close

The purpose of this project is to create a free, open simple dictionary for students to use. This dictionary will ultimately be published in a variety of formats and for multiple platforms.

You have to play with this to see how cool it is. I Like the colors and the player for revisions. Plays like a movie. Also no sign up and chat built in. Sweet! Export in all formats. No publish though, but can share url.

The WePad is the latest generation of tablet computer. It offers users fast Internet connectivity, a complete world of ready-to-use applications and easy access to books and photos, as well as magazines and newspapers from various publishers via the WeMagazine ePublishing Eco System.

After we published a report on "10 of the best apps for education" for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices, many readers wondered when we would produce a similar list for those with Google Android-based mobile devices. So, here are 10 of our favorite Droid apps for education.

Onswipe makes it insanely easy to publish on touch enabled devices. When your readers navigate from an iPad to your site they are given a beautiful app like experience. Preview our offering for Wordpress today and be automagically upgraded to the full platform this Spring.

A content curation tool, in simple English, lets you easily pull videos, images, presentations, tweets, blog posts and other web content into a collection which you can then embed, publish or share online.

It's official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com's Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon's hom

The "Kindle 2" retains most every square inch of white that the debut shows on its face, and it appears to have been squeezed to thinner proportions and spread out top to bottom to be a touch longer than the original. All in an effort, it seems, to give u

Last week, a bill enabling the California Community Colleges to integrate open educational resources (OER) into its core curriculum was signed into law. AB 2261 authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges "to establish a pilot p

Add the best stock photos to your blog - for free Great stock photos cost thousands, right? Wrong. With PicApp, you can enhance your blog with the same photos used by the pros, without paying a cent.

Video IS this generation's myths & stories. Some linguists say visual symbols are the basis of language and that's why we dream. In English, an instructor could engage students by interspersing video clips of "Prospero's Books" with "The Tempest." Most instructors in science for non-science majors know a movie is de rigueur just before evaluation day! ;-)