An online audience is a very powerful motivating force. Now, students have really got a reason to be creative while composing, not only in print but in multimedia. Here are some platforms to help your students get all excited about publishing their work online and getting a real, live, worldwide audience. It's sufficiently motivating, even if the audience is only yourself!
I have not annotated the links in detail because a mere click will bring you to the respective home pages where you will be able to get the low down on everything.
WordPress is a blog platform. Blogs are great because they effectively integrate all the Web 2.0 applications listed below through embedding or links. This is the “unifying” function I love most about my blog, which I use to “control” my other sites!
Use Scribd to publish documents in multi formats – PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel. It includes a library. Have not checked it out yet, but I like the idea. Cool.
TeacherTube is a wholesome video publishing platform.
Pod-o-matic is a platform for creating, finding, sharing and publishing podcasts, which are basically audio files.
One final recommendation: Diigo isn't really a publishing tool. It is an online bookmarking application. I believe they call this a “filter” platform. Extremely useful when conducting research online.
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