In past postings, we’ve pointed out some of the ways in which blogging can help to enhance overall learning. This post, which summarizes Christopher N. Lawrence and Michelle L. Dion’s, Blogging in the Political Science Classroom, explores some of the vital skills that blogging can help build and reinforce in your students. While this post—and the article it summarizes—focuses primarily on the political science classroom, instructors in a variety of disciplines may find it to be beneficial.
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Issuu
03
Dec
Issuu is a digital publishing platform that is used by a large number of publishers to publish their magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Issuu includes an inbuilt exceptional browser that allows for life like browsing of magazines. It also includes an ability to download a published document in PDF format. Issuu allows the publication of a large number of documents. It boasts, as of date, 33 million monthly readers with over 2.4 billion impressions a month and nearly 250, 000 new publications per month. Issuu has won various awards including being one of the TIMES top 50 websites of 2009 alongside such websites as Google, Flickr, Facebook.
Issuu implements a highly realistic and customizable viewing of publications which includes items such as portfolios, books, magazine issues, newspapers, catalogues, brochures, reports and various other print media. Issuu integrates itself with various social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to promote publications uploaded onto its website. The publications on Issuu can be viewed online and downloaded if allowed. The view itself of the publication is animated with page flips and can be easily viewed in any web browser on a full screen. It is an immensely popular website that also allows users to engage with the publications and publishers thus allowing the publishers to build and increase their audience. Read the rest of this entry »
