YUDUfree


 * YUDUfree **
 * free.yudu.com **

What is YUDUfree?


 * Yudu is a cloud based website for digital publishing. It hosts your digital content and can publish it to the web, mobile, and tablets. Your publications can range from e-magazines, e-catalogues, and brochures to textbooks, learning materials, or children's books. They can contain simple text or complex multimedia experiences. **** Yudu can control access in many ways and makes it easy to monetize the content you create. **


 * Yudufree can also act as a library and marketplace where you can read, buy, and share digital content. There is a lot of free content available to read and study. **
 * You can create your own interest groups, invite others to join, and use it to share relevant content. **** With just a quick search, you can find e-magazines on film, music, travel, design, basically on almost any topic that might interest you. Search for educational technology and you will find many e-magazines on the topic. Plus, many of these publications use YUDUfree to publish all of their editions, so once you find publication you like, it is likely you will be able to follow the publication and read future editions. **


 * You can also embed the free publications into your website, classroom blog, ec. so you can share the content without having to have students or parents create their own YUDU account, which is free. **

= =  Strengths
 * **Hosts content for free**
 * **Publishes content to multiple platforms**
 * **Allows controlled access**
 * **Personal library with access to lots of free online content**
 * **Allows for embedding content**
 * **Allows for sharing**

Weaknesses


 * **Website functionality is not intuitive**
 * **Most teachers will probably not be interested in the monetizing aspects, which the website puts a lot of focus upon.**
 * **They do not offer software to create the publications**

Inquiry

**YUDUfree doesn't offer a lot of opportunities for teachers to engage their students in inquiry. Although, it does have a lot of free content that students can read and evaluate. This might work well for a school that doesn't have a library, or only has limited access to books and periodicals.**

Construction

**YUDUfree offers no software that students can use to construct. You could use some of the publications as part of a project, but this site will not help with the actual act of creation.**

Communication

**YUDUfree is all about sharing. They allow users to share multimedia texts, illustrated books, e-catalogues, and just about anything else. You can control access to your content and monetize it. You can publish it in just about any digital medium and device. You can also create groups around common interests and share.**

Expression

**YUDUfree does not offer any help with constructing texts and publications, so that limits its usefulness as a tool of expression. Nothing about the YUDUfree platform offers any connections to other higher purposes or causes. Basically, the expression component of learning would have to take place elsewhere, but once you have the text YUDUfree allows you to share and use it in many different ways, which could be a part of expression.**