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Online publishing resources recommended and used by educators. These are just another way to publish/share documents online.

Collaborate on a story, poem, or other literature as well as providing feedback. Then publish your writing.

Great example and explanation of StoryKit by Wesley Fryer for use as a digital storytelling tool.

Create your own eBooks via ePub and PDFs.

A very nice guide from Jostens advising students on publishing. 

Turn your imagination into a story. Then publish the stories.

Build automatically graded quizzes that can be published online, then view the results in easy-to-read reports.

Thinking Maps, Inc. is an educational consulting and publishing company specializing in providing professional staff development for K-12 schools across the country. Our main focus is the implementation, on a school-wide and district-wide basis, of Thinking Maps®, a common visual language for learning within and across disciplines.

Their primary objective is the implementation, on a school-wide and district-wide basis, of Thinking Maps®, a common visual language for learning within and across disciplines.

"From government to non-profit organizations, teachers to textbook publishers, we all have a role to play in leveraging 21st century technology to expand learning and better serve California's students, parents, teachers and schools. This initiative will ensure our schools know which digital textbooks stand up to California's academic content standards - so these cost-effective resources can be used in our schools to help ensure each and every student has access to a world-class education." - Governor Schwarzenegger

As school districts explore the use of social computing throughout the school day and as an approach to extend instruction, many educators are making the decision to create a wiki, publish video online, or to participate in blogging, social networking or virtual worlds. Social media guidelines encourage educators to participate in social computing and strive to create an atmosphere of trust and individual accountability. Teachers who must hide their online activity because of nonexistent social media guidelines risk losing their jobs and reputations. A better approach is to collaboratively develop a policy that is acceptable to administrators, school board members, teachers and parents allowing for involvement in the global conversation in which many are contributing.

"Hobnox is an online entertainment and publishing platform, a network for creatives and their fans...Hobnox combines the best of current web entertainment with the newest technological possibilities of the internet to create fascinating opportunities for both artists and audiences."

Use authorStream to conduct presentations directly on your site. Use the API for integration or share your powerpoints on YouTube.