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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

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The top five search tools for finding Flickr images are designed to help teachers and students locate just the right image for use in any subject area and project. Without these tools finding the right image on this image hosting site is often an impossible, or at least a tedious, task. The value of this site is its ability to provide digital pictures which are often impossible for a teacher to obtain any other way. Like everything else on the internet, trying to find something is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This where the top five search tools become valuable resources for teachers and students trying to find images comes into play. These search engines are specifically designed to search the more than three billion pictures on the Flickr hosting site.

This site is amazing. I loved it. It's thrilling to see how many new things we can do to enrich the classes.

Really excellent!! The site is a compilation of inumerous other sites. Research, creativity, audio, video, drawing, widgets, you name it, it's all there!

A very comprehensive site on web tools for teaching

Sites with several links to several tools to help teaching your classes. ESL site, not only for English teachers.

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Here you can create your own video site for your school: Sometimes you need a place where only you and your friends are allowed. Maybe you just want a place away from everybody else. Fliggo lets you do that and more. With Fliggo, you can control who can join, upload, comment, or put a password on your entire site.

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It's a very interesting site for learners of English.

A great site where you can watch, read or send your own story.

Hello Peers, have a look on this site, very interesting!

A Britain site to read, watch and interact in short stories, you can send your own, too.

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A site with fill in the gaps lirycs

a site to practice listening and writing. you complete the lyrics while listening to a song you like and you can choose three different levels

Dear Thelma. Lyricstraining is a very popular site, and it is a great way to practice English through music. Thanks for sharing it here.

Phrays is a simple site that publishes a new word of the day everyday. Each word is published with its definition and part of speech. Visitors to the site are encouraged to write and submit a sentence using that word. Registered users can read the sentences submitted by others and vote for their favorite sentences.

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Good list of more sites for us to check out to help our beginners

Great site on how to teach students about grammar.

Great site on how to teach students about grammar.

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I just think that this site will enable us teachers who are quite iliterate in terms of web tools to be able to get closer to our students who are phd in using them, and then feel confident enough to use these resources to teach.

For people who want to learn about web 2.0 tools such as wikis, Flikr, etc...

Cecília, Larry Ferlazzo's site is just great to follow. In some weeks, you'll learn how to follow its updates without even getting to his site! I'm sure you could spend a lifetime exploring all the resources he makes available for teachers.

"Educators seem to be constantly searching for new activities and ways to use Twitter with their Students. At the same time developers seem to be constantly looking for ways to build on the success of Twitter and develop apps and sites that will extend its functionality and increase its usefulness and usability."

Educators seem to be constantly searching for new activities and ways to use Twitter with their Students. At the same time developers seem to be constantly looking for ways to build on the success of Twitter and develop apps and sites that will extend its functionality and increase its usefulness and usability.