Ann H, one of the amazing ACE e-learning practitioners on the research circles adventure, wrote that she had had some progress with blogs and wikis in her classroom. But the learners weren’t so happy with the look of a wiki, they wanted something more like a print-style magazine.
A couple of ideas emerged for someone wanting the “look and feel” of a magazine.
1) the visual book (“MyEbook“)that Dale looked at a few weeks back
2) a site called Issuu gets good reviews: example showing optical illusions.
(That second review is worth a look, as it asks the question, “how web2 is an on-screen magazine?”)
You need to upload PDF files into Issuu, but you can turn any document into a PDF via the pdfCreator printer driver.
What about going for a digital story approach: use the images and voiceover to accompany the (separate) text version – make the web and print versions different and complementary (?). Alan Levine has 50 ways to tell a story using web2.
Some other “flip-book” or apps for embedding magazine-style documents include:
=> scribd can embed many different kinds of documents into a wiki (first upload into scribd, then paste the “embed code” onto your wiki page),
=> slideshare turns different kinds of presentation slides (eg powerpoint, openoffice impress, osx keynote) into web-based presentations .. and you can also add voiceovers! Here’s an example:
Remember Delia’s brilliant session at the e-showcase, “The power of e” ..?
good luck, michael
photo credit: cammy?claudia