[MACEP] OnLine writing and publishing of students work

[Greg Buchan]

I have been researching online resources for
publishing student's work; mainly writing and
illustrations of short stories. We have no budget but
we might be able to get some parents to pitch in.
There are quite a few childern-focuse writing site out
there and yes I have googled this to death over the
last week. So I wanted to get your input and
experience on the topic.

This is what I see are the main options...
1) create our own web site from scratch and publish
works for students there. The work is from elementary
kids ages 8-12. Pros we control everything published
and can allow a lot to be published.
Cons: we would have to manage a site and content.

2) Use an exiting site that focuses on publishing
childrens work but allows publication of everything
good, bad, and ugly. There are some very good sites
also like www.stonesoup.com and e-zines that are very
sellective.  We would have less control of the work
being published but there is less setup, our focus
would be writing and submitting and less on the web
site of life. Are my assumption correct?

3) or we could take an exiting free web service like
blogger site or GeoCities / yahoo free hosting and
turn it into a open publishing site for students.
There may be less focus on creating the site but we
could have a great amount of control.

Please let me know if you have some hands on
experience with these types of services.

Greg Buchan
Proxy request of wife teaching in 
Beaverton School District.


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