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  RSS |Blogs|Forums|Register|Sign-In K-12 Blueprint   Digital Learning Environments Top 10 sites for Creating Digital Magazines and Newspapers by David Kapuler September 13, 2010 print ShareThis rss While creating digital magazines or newspapers can be done in a word processor, there are dedicated sites that elevate this art to a whole new level. Top 10 sites for Creating Digital Magazines/Newspapers 1. Issuu  - One of the most popular and successful online digital magazine creators/publishers around, with a very nice user interface. 2. Yudu  - Upload a document or PDF to create an online magazine that can be emailed our or embedded into a site. 3. Openzine  - Very user friendly site with an abundance of templates and layouts to create a professional-looking magazine and share online. 4. NewsCred  - Create a terrific looking online newspaper in 5 minutes, similar to Openzine. 5. Scribd  - A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing. 6 Fodey  - A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site. 7. Zinepal  - A great way to bring the news to students by "clipping" online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers. 8. Paper.li   - A fantastic site to turn Twitter into an online readable magazine. 9. Guzzle.it  - Is a news aggregator that puts online news in one customizable place. 10. Crayon - Create a professional-looking newspaper with this nice online creator. There are several options to choose from, so it has a bit of a higher learning curve.  David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. For more information about his work, contact him at dkapuler@gmail.com and read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com. SPONSORED LINKS       print ShareThis rss .      Leave a Comment:   Text Onl

Word Stash is a free service that describes itself as "half vocabulary builder, half dictionary, and full awesome." Word Stash is pretty true to its self-description. At its most basic Word Stash is a dictionary that provides contextual examples to support the definitions offered. For many words, Word Stash provides an audio pronunciation.  The vocabulary builder aspect of Word Stash lies in the fact that users can create accounts in which they create and save lists of words to study. Users can create as many lists as they like and expand existing lists as they go. Word Stash provides short quizzes based on the words a user puts into a list. In creating the study quizzes, Word Stash uses a spaced repetition algorithm to present users with words based upon how often they answer correctly or incorrectly. To create a list of words users simply need to click "stash" anytime they view a word in the Word Stash dictionary. Users can also share lists and study other users' shared lists. 

Forms are an integral feature of any website or blog but not everybody has the HTML knowledge to create forms easily. If you are one of those people, don't worry! Because now you can create forms without writing a single line of code. These WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) form builders let you create all sorts of forms by simply dragging and dropping desired fields and pasting the code on your website

Have you ever wanted to create short "how to" video for your students to use for homework, remembering facts, and solving math problems. How often have your students stated, "I could not complete the homework assignment, because I could not remember the steps and no one could help me." Well the answer is to create a screencast or video for posting on your class wiki or blog for students to view at home or anywhere else they have web access.

Explore. Share. Create. It starts with an image. Define the image through multimedia.  Present ideas.  Pack it full of content. Create links to amazing sites. Explore, share and create with ThingLink in the classroom!

Creating forms with Microsoft Word is easy, but the challenge comes in when you decide to create fillable forms with options that you can send to people and have them fill out digitally. Whether you need a form for gathering information about people or if you are trying to take a survey to test out user response to software or a new product, MS Word has the solution for you.

Benefits for creating a classroom environment for student blogging begin with establishing a foundation for their success. Why is this important? Integrating blogs transforms a classroom into a learning community where students become self-directed learners and thinkers. This in turn, causes students to use higher order thinking skills as they create and post entries in their blogs, along with commenting on other student's blogs.

Create an avatar and connect with Your Digital Self through multimedia. Create links to whatever it is that helps you define your digital self. This is fun! . Revisit it often and link to your favorites. Turn it in and receive a badge.

Wizer is a fantastic free tool for creating simple digital worksheets that enable learners and teachers to do some pretty complex things. When I first discovered the tool a few months back I was really impressed by how easy it was to create really engaging blended learning content for class or homework, so it's great to be able to publish this Q & A with Nira Mayorchik Sheleg the Co-founder & CEO.

Edistorm is an excellent site for creating and using educational virtual sticky notes. Students can collaborate with the teacher on project ideas. They can vote on those ideas and make comments to eacher other. Use Edistorm as a means of brainstorming ideas.

I think this kind of tool can be really beneficial for creating flipped learning or video orientated learning as the speaker can guide learners to various learning resources on the web. They can also embed visual support for language learners such as text and images and even write over the video as though it were a whiteboard.

Online Tools and Software to Create Charts, Graphs, Flowcharts, Diagrams etc

Use the Rubric Maker to make customized assessments for student work. You can create rubrics for primary, elementary, middle, and high school. The default text has been written to be appropriate for each level. After choosing a title and grade level for the rubric, you will be able to choose and edit a variety of existing performances, as well as create performances specific to the content your class is studying.

8 Websites to Create Animated GIF Online

Great site to create an online space for your groups - for teachers making their first attempt at creating an online resource for their classrooms.

"Today's tech-savvy students spend hours upon hours sharing information with friends through social networks like Facebook. We wanted to bring this form of interaction to education. Tapiohka is a free, hosted solution that provides easy access to class information with tools that facilitate sharing and collaboration. We look to differentiate ourselves by bringing the focus on students learning from each other and not just from their teachers and textbooks. We completed our first phase of development last month and Tapiohka is now available and completely free to users. Currently, a teacher can create a class and provide their students with secure access to class information, schedule and resources. Students can collaborate with their fellow classmates within a platform that enables the easy sharing of resources and the ability to create discussions and form study groups."

AllPlay Web is an amazing, innovative solution that allows you to create a professional, fully-automated and entertaining game show experience within your webinar. Simply create your game show from our template creator and then invite attendees using our invite wizard. During your webinar, you host the game on your computer while each attendee engages in the game using their own on-screen keypad.

pretty nice site for creating stories and short animations

pretty nice site for creating stories and short animations

We use it a lot at our school, Jorge. It is pretty nice for students to create their own story lines, or even to practice dialogues or grammar.

Now you can get your learners to create a map!

For the last few weeks I've been trying out a free tool called Slinkset and I have found it to be pretty useful. Slinkset is a tool that enables you to create your own 'portal' site ( A 'portal' site is one that links to other content rather than a tool for producing content) and I've been using it to create a kind of educational technology news site. I've used it to keep track of the things that I'm reading, writing and watching online as well as adding a few links to conferences.