Digital Authorship

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

This film provides information concerning 21st century skills and how to evaluate internet web sites for validity, authorship, timeliness, and integrity.

Created by Digital Leaders at Clevedon School

Responding to Fitzpatrick, K. (2011) The digital future of authorship: rethinking originality, Culture Machine vol. 12.

In this day and age, where anyone with access to the internet can create a website, it is critical that we as educators teach our students how to evaluate web content. There are some great resources available for educating students on this matter, such as Kathy Schrock's Five W's of Website Evaluation or the University of ...

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

In 2005, Blurb founder Eileen Gittins wanted to do something she thought would be relatively simple: Make a book of her own photography. The "make a book" part was possible, sure, but the costs were prohibitive. And the "simple" part? Not so much.

This is pretty important. My school is currently in a stage of digitalisation that wants to get rid of textbooks and replace them with tablets in class. They are, however, contemplating on using iBooks Author to allow teachers to create content for students.

You are here: Home > Online Articles > Coming to Terms with Digital Authorship in Education By Michael Peters What is blogging, really? One of the barriers to a meaningful conversation about blogging in the classroom is a pervasive confusion about what blogs are, both generally and in the educational context.

With the announcement of iBooks Author last week, the world of self-publishing seemed to open up a little wider, especially for authors looking for an easy way to format and distribute their own content. At the same time, people raised concerns about the content restrictions of the iBooks Author tool.

Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu's millions of monthly readers.

O'Reilly's Tools of Change 2013 kicked off February 12 with the first-ever Author (R)evolution Day, cosponsored by Publishers Weekly, designed to give authors, content creators, agents, and indie author service providers a full day of panels and breakout sessions.

Update 3 Feb 2012: Apple updated the End User License Agreement (EULA) on Friday, February 3 to make clear that they were not attempting to control the content of books created with iBooks Author, but rather the formatting itself: Important Note: If you want to charge a fee for a work that includes files in the .ibooks format generated using iBooks Author, you may only sell or distribute such work through Apple, and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple.

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