Using eBooks with Tweens

Using E-Books to Motivate Pupils Writing

This  Blip TV session shares a video presentation by Colin Hill an elementary teacher in England who presented this video for the K12.Online Conference in 2009. In the presentation he shares a WebTool called My eBook.com and provides a mini tutorial on how to create and publish an eBook. I was so excited when I found this today because this is a tool that we can truly use with our students to create and publish original eBook content. Imagine what tweens could do with this WebTool when you see examples created by 7-8 year olds!

Here is an e-book with his students' work published for everyone to be able to read:



Here is an example of a class poetry book created within class and then published as an eBook.



Here is an e-book of Cinderella, no longer in print. The future of publishing and preservation?