Publishing+Possibilities

toc =**Possible Formats to Use** =

**Blogs/Social Networks**
You could create your own blog and link it to other bloggers talking about the same topic, or. . . Better yet, find a social network already dedicated to your interest and contribute your blogs there.

[|"Blogs in Plain English"] from [|Common Craft] media type="custom" key="6698943"

[|"State of the Blogosphere"] report on [|Technorati]

===**Knol: A Unit of Knowledge** === Share your expertise with a [|Knol]

**Multimedia/Mash-ups**
1. Create your multimedia message; there are lots of different formats demonstrated below.

2. Upload your file to the appropriate place as needed:

[|YouTube] (to publish videos and slideshows) For tips on making a YouTube video, Facebook app, or video game, check out [|FreshBrain]

[|Slideshare] (to publish slideshows or [|slidecast], which can include an audio track)

[|Glogster EDU] (to create and publish interactive posters/collages)

[|Scribd] (to publish documents, can upload PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel)

[|ISSU: You Publish] (to publish a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|booklet], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|newsletter] , <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|artwork] , etc.)

3. Post your multimedia presentation to an online community where your audience will find it.

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Examples of Different Formats** =

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Voicethread**
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Voicethread] an interactive way to share images, documents, and videos. Users can post responses to your voicethread.

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<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Prezi**
Present it with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Prezi] the zooming presentation editor Here's a cool example (use the arrow buttons to navigate AND try the zoom (circle) button to control it yourself) To interact with this one <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|on the Prezi website, go here]

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<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Common Craft**
Explain what you've learned à la the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Common Craft] show's "[Topic] in Plain English" Remember how the Networked Student video used that same format? Here's another fun example. ..

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<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Visual Video**
Create something inspired by one of the visual presentations at <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Say It Visually!] Here's one with a simple painting to explain the importance of the 2010 Census

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<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Pecha Kucha**
Use the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Pecha Kucha] presentation style Here's an example from <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Daniel Pink], who wrote this <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|article about Pecha Kucha]

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<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Back of the Napkin**
Try the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Back of the Napkin] style For example, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Dan Roam] 's explanation of the health care debate __<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">[|Health Care Napkin 1] __ <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">media type="custom" key="6698871" <span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,arial; font-size: 11px; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more __[|documents]__ from __[|Dan Roam]__.

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Graphic Facilitation** === See examples in the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Graphic Facilitation Portfolio] at LooseTooth.com media type="custom" key="6698921"

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**TED Talk**
Record a very short lecture in the spirit of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|TED Talks] (TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design) Here are two talks that say quite a lot in under 5 minutes: (For more short TED Talks, see <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|TED in 3 Minutes] ) Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks media type="custom" key="6698881"

Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us media type="custom" key="6698883"

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Emoticons**
Tell it with emoticons like storyteller, performance poet, and mixedmedia artist, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Rives] media type="custom" key="6698887"

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Interpretive Dance**
Choreograph an Interpretive Dance, like <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Machine is Us/ing Us - Dance Mix] media type="custom" key="6698889"

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Comic Strips**
Create a comic strip using one of these online tools: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Bitstrips] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Make Beliefs Comix] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Xtranormal: Text-to-Movie] [|Kerpoof Studio] (doodle, draw, make a picture, story, movie) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Comic Creator] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Pixton: DIY Comics] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Toonlet: web-comic blogging in minutes]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Scott McCloud on comics] (TED) media type="custom" key="6698893"

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> Possible Places to Post = There are lots of social networks where young people are already talking about global issues.

Here are some <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|where you can post your multimedia projects]

Here are some <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|where you can comment or blog and link to your project] c