I looked a lot at publishing on Friday. Started by looking at Paper.li and creating a newspaper from our student’s published work. Since I am having the students use the middle school category for all of their posts and to tag specific post with specific words I can target the content added to the Paper.li account. Right now you would see a lot about Facebook. Also nice looking at the paper on my Ipad as Paper.li now has a mobile app.
Then looked at Anthologize once again. This is a WordPress plugin that allows you to publish blog content. I can’t seem to get it to work on our multisite installation but I can use Feedwordpress to add the content I want to a standalone WordPress install and then use that blog to publish a pdf and a epub version of the blog posts. I have attached an Epub book of Abby’s blog below. Need to look at photos and how they are brought in as there are some issues but this could be another interesting way of displaying a portfolio. Think my parents would have loved to read what Aaron, currently at the U of A, was writing back when he was in Middle School. Actually come to think of it I guess I could add Aaron to the site through Feedwordpress and create an Epub of the work he did in grade eight as well.
Also looked at Blogbooker as well. To use this you need to export your blog then use the xml file tou created to make a book with Blogbooker. Once again, you can download the book as a PDF or also send it to Lulu and publish it.
Lots of different possibilities when thinking about publishing your blog content.
Abby’s Ebook
