[MACEP] OnLine writing and publishing of students work

[Len Otto]

Have you considered a simple discussion board? Kids can compose offline,
and when it is in final form it can be copied and pasted under the
student's ID. We allow only firstname/lastinitial for student security
reasons.

See one example at http://www.reynolds.k12.or.us/~lenotto/litforum/

Our webmaster set it up, I simply run it, so I do not know the technical
details of getting it up and running, but I do know there are a couple
freebies out there, too. Easy to use, student and teacher friendly once it
is up. Plus, it is a great motivator to get kids writing. Seeing their
work on the web is powerful.

Good luck!

Len
:-)=

Len Otto
EdTech TOSA
Reynolds School District
1204 NE 201st Ave.
Fairview, OR 97024
503-661-7200 x3246
len_otto at reynolds.k12.or.us


macep at macep.net writes:
>
>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.
>
>