When magazine lovers get nostalgic about print, they cite the feel of flipping pages, the shock of seeing an amazing layout and the physicality of being able to hold something in your hands. Maybe a gadget like Amazon's Kindle can compete with the old-fashioned ink-on-paper experience, but for our money — which, in this instance, is zero dollars — we'll take Issuu, an online newsstand with infinite shelf space, hundreds of interesting micro-publishing projects and a slick online reader. Spending time browsing through the titles that are archived on the site comes so close to the feel of the actual thing that you might forget you're in a magazine matrix.
So far I've read Google for teachers part one:
Open publication - Free publishing
and two
which I find VERY useful and cannot wait to try out some of the tips it offers (especially the part where using Google Docs for flashcards is mentioned).
The same author also posted Google Earth Across the Curriculum which gives amazing ideas on how to use it on the topic of literature (it can be used to follow a character's travel) and protecting the environment (there are pictures ready for kids to browse):
I hope you find this useful as I have.
Bye for now,
D
Thank you,Dora, this is very interesting.
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