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The Paper.li platform gives you access to an ever-expanding universe of articles, blog posts, and rich media content. Paper.li automatically processes more than 250 million social media posts per day, extracting & analyzing over 25 million articles. Only Paper.li lets you tap into this powerful media flow to find exactly what you need, and publish it easily on your own online newspaper.

Simplebooklet is browser based tool for students to use to publish multimedia stories. All you need is your web browser and a few short minutes to create a multipage digital brochure, product guide, slider or flip book with one click publishing to facebook, email, websites, blogs, and more. Build it from scratch or convert your existing PDF. Students could use Simple Booklet to create a small portfolio of their work using videos, images, sounds, and text.

What if the goal of our teaching was to generate a lively conversation among our students that can then be collected as a record of the learning that happened in the class?

One of the goals of education-digital or otherwise-is to prepare students for thinking and doing outside the classroom. And while it is true that the goal of teaching writing has always been to prepare students for writing beyond the walls of the schoolhouse, this is even more the case now that digital publishing has become so widely available in our society.