Choose Your View	10 Big Ideas	Electronic Publishing

Publishing

    Publishing on the Web can provide students and teachers alike the opportunity to showcase their best work, create personal home pages that help them reflect on who they are and how their learning experiences are shaping who they want to become, and initiate dialogue with their audiences around texts. The following tips and techniques can help teachers think about ways they might incorporate Web publishing into their students' educational experiences.

• Incorporate writing into students' normal assignments whenever possible. Do so even in subjects such as mathematics, science, or physical education, in which students are not necessarily called upon to write. The incorporation of writing in this way will not only provide students with a broad body of works to choose from, but will also help them reflect on their learning in each of these subjects.

• Develop a partnership with another classroom--down the hall, across the state or around the world--in which students can establish relationships with each other and create collaborative projects for Web publication.

• Collect ideas about activities to try from student work that is available on the Web. A great many schools and classrooms have Web presences, and exposure to the ideas of others will help spark new ideas.

• Create a classroom-based newsletter, magazine, or other publication for parents or community members for which students can assume responsibility. Students will be able to contribute to an ongoing project that has a clear purpose: informing parents and community members about the activities of the students and their school.

• Help students begin to think about publishing as "more than words." Encourage students who prefer to express themselves in modes other than writing to think about their visual, audio, and graphical creations as publishable materials, with potential for audience feedback and critique.

Choose Your View	10 Big Ideas	Electronic Publishing