Publishing


 * Tools You Can Use to Create E-Books for Your Students**

The simplest form of an e-book is a PDF or Word Document that's been enhanced with some basic page-turning effects and displaced on-line. You can use Powerpoint, Excel, Word Docs or Pdf's - then upload the completed project to a service like Issuu ([|Isuu.com]) or Yudu ([|free.yudu.com]). These sercives will create on-line magazines. The page-turning effect and zoom options are build into Issuu and Yudu and automatically activated.

Multi-medua e-books can be made using Simple Booklet ([|simplebooklet.com]). This site allows student authors to combine text, images, videos, and audio files. This on-line tool has an educational version which offers the benefits of teh commercial features without cost to teachers.

Also [|2EPUB]converts PDF's Word documents, and files in RTF, Text, ODT, and Html into ePub and Mobi, so that you can access them onto your Kindle or iPad, respectively.

Also [|dotEPUB]will allow you to convert the contents of a webpage into ePub or Mobi forma to read on your device.