Student On-line Publishing Tools

You must have parental permission before publishing your students' work online. Always preview any site where students will submit their work. Some sites do not ask for personal information, other do. Don't submit personal information to sites that do not have a posted privacy policy.

• Animal Diaries: Students in grades K-6 can submit their stories, poems, drawings, and photographs of animals.
• Cyberkids: This site publishes original stories, poems, articles, drawings, photos, jokes, and multimedia creations by and for kids in grades 2-7.
• KidSpace has many features including: StoryBook--To read and to send stories. Beanstalk--To create a picture book while cooperating with other children on the net. A child can send either a picture or a story that goes with another child's work. On Air Concert--To share musical works played or created by children. This page uses the LiveAudio Plugin to play sound files.
• Letterpop: on-line newsletter creator, free, easy to use
• On-line Publishing Sites for Students
• Writer's Window

• Book Hooks: Publish book reviews online.
• Crunch: Here is a safe online outlet to publish your students' written work. Students are invited to share their opinions on this e-zine. The editors provide the topics and the guidelines, and students write reviews, poetry, or stories.

• Giggle Poetry: learn how to write poems, read poems, participate in a poetry contest, ask a poet a question, read about poets
• KidsBookshelf: Students 17 years of age and younger may send in their original short stories and poems to be published on this site.
• Kidscom: Students contribute their own writing and commentary on student work already posted. They can also write stories about a character that Kidscom has created.
• Kidpub features the largest collection of stories by children on the Internet, just over 42,000 stories written by and for children.
• MidLink Magazine: This site invites classrooms and students to publish their writing on various themes which change four times per year. Ages 8-18
• The Neverending Tale: With versions for elementary, middle, and high school readers, this interactive site lets you select from a variety of story paths or add your own contribution to an online version of a choose-your-own-adventure book.
• Storydog: ....where kids can fetch a new story every day...Storydog.com publishes original, illustrated, children's stories with a new story everyday. Along with our stories, we have learning games, sweepstakes and contests for kids. They do have a privacy policy.

• Making the News

• Project Poster: Students may use Project Poster to share school projects. They can create and post a web page that is stored and available on-line for 1 month.
• Slideshare: great for publishing slideshows. You can import PowerPoint slideshows. Handout on using Slideshare.