Places For Publishing Your Work
Currently, the Internet and Web hosts no single publication or site where you can send an original curriculum or think piece.
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Currently, the Internet and Web hosts no single publication or site where you can send an original curriculum or think piece. However, there are many options for publishing you works, both on and off-line.
Classroom Connect welcomes postings for its links' services.
At the Armadillo site are teacher-developed units on rivers, bees and butterflies. This work was accomplished by summer workshop participants but the site managers do welcome other contributions.
The National School Board Association magazine accepts teacher online work.
TechLEARNING publishes articles about technology.
Check publication opportunities in the magazines of your favorite professional association.
Other online opportunities also include online versions of journals and magazines maintained by professional associations, accessible only by their membership, and NSF testbed projects whose mission is to support a reference or help desk or projects, related to yours (e.g., TERC for environmental studies).
Be sure to publish your work on your own web site. Indicate whether any viewer can download it freely or must seek permission. If you wish your publication to be reproduced exactly as you prepared it, create is as an Adobe Acrobat .PDF file. If you wish to charge a fee, set up your own on-line store or check out PayPal, for example, which offers a number of payment options.
Many teacher 'zines have appeared as folks are recognizing that one of the unique attributes of the Web is the power for anyone to publish. Now you will reach a larger audience, however, if you create your own Web page and just register it with search engines. Be sure to include specific keywords.
One of the most exciting innovations is the Web Log, or Blog. Any individual or group can create a publishing site for diary-like comments, forums on public issues, and collaborations. This development has the capacity to facilitate publishing for individuals and groups over the Web.
Teacher Tube for teachers only enables professionals to host, tag and share instructional videos--a great collaboration.
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One of the saddest things is to find a great Internet resource that is no longer available. An instructor has moved to a different school district or retired and their pages on the school's server have been deleted. Or funding is no longer for a project and all content has been lost. Always publish a copy of your work on a web site that you control so that it will readily be available both now and in the future.
