Electronic Publishing
The World Wide Web provides an excellent opportunity to publish
documents -- newspapers, newsletters, journals, multimedia reports,
etc. -- for a very large audience at a fraction of the cost of
traditional printing. Many organizations have stopped producing
paper documents in favor of on-line publishing. (This is especially
true for very long documents that bring high publication costs.)
If a reader of these on-line documents needs a printed copy, he
simple views the desired page in their Web browser and selects
the PRINT option.
Perhaps the greatest potential of Web publishing for educators is
the production of on-line student publications. More and more,
easy-to-use HTML publishing tools are taking the burden out of
building webpages and allowing webpage builders to focus on
page content. Template pages especially facilitate the production
of documents that follow a standard format. With these type tools,
on-line student newspapers, multimedia reports, and student
journals are easily to produce. Such efforts provide excellent
educational opportunities for collaborative learning and peer review.
The motivational factor alone -- the sense of "ownership" and
satisfaction which follows posting one's writing to the very public
Web -- is enough to excite otherwise unexcited students about writing.
Visit the links below for examples of on-line publishing. Pay
special attention to the student-produced documents.
Examples:
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