Recent Changes

-prompts you to capitalize words and gives different options of words (plurals, past tense, gerund)
-gives a list of words to use, or you can "freestyle" and type words, but it gives you suggestions of words that might be helpful
choose from
-very easy to use; just drag and drop
Weaknesses:
-each Pic Lit has to be at least 10 letters
Pic Lit
-you can't save the Pic Lit as a PDF or JPG file
-you can only save your Pic Lit to the Pic Lit gallery. To get it on your computer, you have to email it to yourself and then download it.

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What is Tikatok?
the teacher. TkatokTikatok allows students
Strengths
Students can use personal photographs, saved pictures, or hand-drawn pictures to supplement each story.
The account must be validated before the author can publish/save their writing piece.
There is no audio option.
Students need a valid email address to create a story.
Parents may not want their children exposed to the advertisements on the website.
There is a cost to publish the book (e-book downloads cost $2.99, paperback and hardcover books cost $15+)

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
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.

Expression
YUDUfree does not

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

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

Allison: Pic Lits
Jacy: Pixton
Jason: YUDUfree
Melissa: SimpleBooklet
Sarah: Tikatok

What is SimpleBooklet?SimpleBooklet is a 2.0 web tool to design brochures, flyers, business cards, postcards, or online books. SimpleBooklet allows the designer to publish their final project to the web, Facebook, blog, iPad or iPhone for anyone to see. There are many things you can add to your presentation on SimpleBooklet to make it visually appealing such as animations, maps, hyperlinks, videos and music.
Strengths
program to use.
*Canuse.*Can customize your you want it.
*Easyit.*Easy to add pages and designs.
*designs.* User friendly
*friendly* Lots of free features.
*Youfeatures.*You can make anyone to see.
*Thesee.*The booklet you on mobile devices.
*Isdevices.*Is saved in
Weaknesses
* Students have to set up with their email information.*Some of the editing features do not work. A message will come up and say currently under work.*Difficult to input videos and media devices.*Some of the editing features are difficult to manipulate.*Lower Elementary students might struggle with the formating features.
Communication:Students can communicate what they have learned by writing a story, phrase, or key ideas in what they chose to design in SimpleBooklet. If students want to create a movie and upload the movie to make it be part of their presentation SimpleBooklet allows students to do this. This is another way students can communicate and share with others what they understand from a unit taught in class. Students can work individually on an assignment in or work in groups using this web 2.0 tool.
Expression:Students can express their understanding of a topic by what they design in SimpleBooklet. The expressions they show in the final presentation should show pictures, graphics, words, and possibly music or videos.
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