Publishing 3.0 - A Novel Model For Independent Educational Publishing

My New Years resolution this yr was to start occur a serial of ebooks for iPads, e-readers together with other digital devices. This has been my ambition since I published my maiden off majority Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers dorsum inwards 2009, but I’ve never felt that the time, the applied scientific discipline or the marketplace was at the correct place.

Significant changes over the concluding dyad of years though lead maintain led me to believe that forthwith is the fourth dimension to await at a novel model of ELT publishing, at to the lowest degree for the realm of instructor evolution books.

The changes I refer to a higher house include

• A proliferation of increasingly depression toll e-reading devices together with tablets.
• The evolution of powerful complimentary software together with applications such every bit iBooks Author for the evolution of media rich ebooks.
• The combination of these applications amongst secure together with reliable marketing platforms, such every bit Lulu together with iBookStore.
• The evolution of crowd-funding platforms such every bit KickStarter together with Indigogo.

I believe that the combination of these developments is forthwith enabling private teachers to write prepare together with launch their ain products to the marketplace on a commercially competitive footing amongst established publishers.

So why is this a expert thing?
Well anyone who has e'er approached a publisher amongst an visit for a majority volition know how hard it tin dismiss live on to acquire it accepted. The established publishers are, past times necessity, cautious close taking on new, innovative or risky projects. Producing together with distributing paper-based books is a hugely expensive elbow grease together with inwards the illustration of instructor evolution books, the returns are probable to live on pocket-size for both the publisher together with the writer.

The changes I refer above, however, lead maintain the potential to liberate writers from the established publishing procedure together with give them the liberty to prepare their ain projects together with products independently.

• The proliferation of depression toll mobile devices such every bit e-readers, tablets together with iPads provides a genuinely useful together with accessible medium on which to divulge instructor evolution materials. Instead of having your books at dwelling solid on the bookshelf you lot tin dismiss forthwith bear them to a greater extent than or less amongst you lot on your device thus they are on mitt at the 2nd of need.
• These devices together with the applications used to prepare content for them are capable of providing a media rich sense amongst color interactive images, audio, video together with a make of interactive learning apps, none of which is possible inwards a traditional paper-based book.
• The combination of these applications amongst established secure marketing platforms agency that writers amongst the commitment to run into their projects through to completion tin dismiss easily marketplace them internationally together with genuinely acquire a reasonable fiscal render on the locomote they pose in.
• Crowd-funding platforms similar KickStarter together with Indigogo enable writers to enhance the funds they bespeak to prepare expert lineament professional person products that the marketplace wants.

I’ve pose the crowd-funding platform at the goal of my list, but genuinely it should live on at the beginning, because crowd-funding doesn’t but provide the coin to launch the product, it also acts every bit a marketplace inquiry tool to run into if at that spot genuinely is a marketplace for the product. If the people for whom the production is intended aren’t willing to invest inwards it to acquire it created, thus it’s probable that at that spot isn’t genuinely a feasible marketplace for this product.

So this brings me dorsum to where I started amongst my New Years resolution. I lead maintain launched my ain crowd-funding projection to attempt to practise the maiden off inwards a serial of ebooks inwards a serial that I intend to telephone telephone The Digital Classroom. The maiden off of these volition focus on the role of online video every bit a tool for learning.

You tin dismiss uncovering out to a greater extent than close this projection past times next this link Digital Classrooms - Online Video or watching the video below.



If you lot recall this is a production you lot would live on interested inwards having them delight practise back upward it purchase either buying together with advance re-create of the majority or past times sharing the link amongst others you lot recall may live on interested.

You tin dismiss also acquire an visit of the form of content the majority volition encompass together with fifty-fifty contribute your ideas for what the majority should contain, using the crowd-sourcing questionnaire below. Just add together your ideas together with vote for the things you lot would most similar included inwards the book. That way you lot tin dismiss ensure that I make the majority that you lot bespeak to tending back upward together with prepare your teaching.


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I promise you lot uncovering the projection interesting together with that this ship service gets you lot started thinking close how you lot tin dismiss make your ain majority too.

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Nik Peachey

X Reasons Why Y'all Should Purchase My Book

Over the concluding yr I bring been working on the first inwards what I promise volition endure a serial of books to tending teachers exploit novel technologies inwards ways that volition elevate their students learning. My kickoff mass - Digital Video - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 manual for linguistic communication teachers - was released inwards August 2015 too hither only a few of the reasons why I mean value it's worth the cost of a loving cup of coffee.

1. It’s a solid seat down breaking ebook that combines text too images alongside 26 embedded video tutorials.

Here's an example:



2. It combines educational activity on how to role the best inwards novel technologies alongside creative practical classroom activities.

3.It gives an overview of how novel technologies tin endure combined alongside existing methodological approaches such every bit TBL, CLIL too Flipped Learning to brand students’ learning to a greater extent than engaging too effective.

4. It shows yous how to construct your ain technical too pedagogical skills to enable them to practise their ain materials too activities for students.

5. It helps yous to encounter beyond the concept of using video for comprehension too consumption too looks at ways yous tin exploit the amazing ability of handheld devices to encourage students to role video creatively to prepare their skills.

6. It includes annotated links to some of the best gratis video based apps too resources that are available online.

7. It shows yous how to construct the technical skills too confidence yous demand to gradually start introducing novel technologies to your classroom.

8. It helps yous to encounter how yous tin brand the transition from classroom teaching to blended too online teaching.

9. It’s the cheapest adept character 400 page total colouring multimedia ebook for teachers that yous tin purchase online. (Price at acquaint is below £1 / $1.99 too thus unopen to the cost of a loving cup of coffee)

10. The coin raised from creating the sales of the mass volition tending to ensure that I’m able to attain similar books similar this at a comparable price.

You tin purchase the mass from:

• The iBook Store for Apple users: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/digital-video/id1025275485
• For other platforms Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/doc/276137280/Digital-Video-A-manual-for-language-teachers 

I actually promise yous bask the mass too delight practise acquire out a review.

Related links:

• Lesson plans too activities for exploiting video
• Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers 
• Using Scribd to monetise your writing work

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Nik Peachey

Exploiting Infographics For Digital Literacy In Addition To Critical Thinking

This is merely a brusk post service to anounce the publication of my novel ebook 'Exploiting Infographics for Digital Literacy as well as Critical Thinking'.

Exploiting Infographics follows on from 10 Lessons inwards Digital Literacy, which is a collection of lesson plans based closed to infographics, as well as looks inwards to a greater extent than depth at the genre as well as how infographics tin hold upwardly used equally both sources of data as well as equally creative learning tasks for students.

The tasks that accompany the infographics are intended to encourage students to remember to a greater extent than critically most the data they are exposed to as well as to interrogation the sources of data they detect whilst browsing the internet.

Exploiting Infographics should assistance teachers to offset creating their ain tasks, activities as well as lesson plans for students as well as to integrate infographics inwards a agency that volition heighten students’ critical thinking, digital literacy, linguistic communication as well as communication skills.

Exploiting Infographics was conceived equally business office of The Digital Classrooms Series which started amongst the laurels winning Digital Video - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Manual for Language Teachers.

The serial is intended to assistance teachers, instructor trainers, materials writers as well as course of report designers integrate digital technologies into their classroom practise inwards a pedagogically audio as well as impactful way.


I promise y'all taste these books as well as detect them useful.



Related links:

• My Lesson Materials

Nik Peachey

Thinking Critically Through Digital Media

Although the utilization of cyberspace together with digital materials inward the linguistic communication classroom has come upward a long agency over the lastly xx years, withal the vast bulk of spider web based fabric that finds its agency into the linguistic communication classroom is used for information input or comprehension purposes. The students’ interaction alongside the materials is every bit such largely passive alongside the instructor controlling the suitability of the materials selected together with deciding what information the students volition extract from it.

In Thinking Critically through Digital Media I cause got tried to construct on this model, exactly educate it together with accept it to deeper together with to a greater extent than critical levels of analysis that become beyond the superficial linguistic score together with assistance to educate students non exclusively every bit English linguistic communication language speakers, exactly every bit capable information literate participants inward the global noesis economy.

The bulk uses every bit its Blue Planet the evolution of primal digital literacies. These include the mightiness to empathise visually presented data, the mightiness collect together with analyse information using a attain of techniques together with survey tools together with the mightiness to practise together with deliver a attain of presentation types using digital media tools.

Whilst developing these digital literacies students are also encouraged to assess the validity, credibility together with underlying bias of the information they report together with are given a attain of inquiry tools together with techniques for reassessing the information together with evaluating how it fits inside their personal framework of belief systems together with values.

The book itself has 4 primary chapters. The starting fourth dimension iii chapters incorporate a attain of activities that teachers tin sack utilization alongside students to educate their abilities to empathise together with practise infographics, educate inquiry polls together with surveys together with practise together with deliver presentations. These activities give students hands on exposure to a attain of recommended tools together with educate students every bit active creators of information whilst developing their abilities to operate collaboratively inward digital online environments.

The 4th primal chapter of the bulk is a collection of lesson plans that teachers tin sack utilization to accept students through a consummate procedure from accessing their existing noesis well-nigh a topic, agreement novel input, examining how the information fits into their existing value scheme, checking the credibility together with validity of the information, carrying out their ain parallel inquiry through social media to finally sharing together with reevaluating what they cause got learned.

I believe that the skills together with abilities teachers tin sack assistance students educate through the utilization of these materials are ones that are sadly lacking, non exclusively inward the English linguistic communication language classroom exactly also inward the full general pedagogy of many students approximately the world. Through the utilization of these materials I promise teachers tin sack educate to a greater extent than actively together with intellectually critical students who approach digital media alongside the mightiness non exclusively to covert together with eat information exactly also empathise the possible bias, motivation together with underlying values of those creating the information. I believe these skills together with abilities are primal to creating a to a greater extent than tolerant, open-minded together with critically aware global society.

Related links:

• Thinking Critically through Digital Media 
• PeacheyPublications 
• Tools together with alternatives for creating presentations
• Technology, Autonomous Learning & a Decline inward Critical Thinking

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Nik Peachey

Digital Tools For Teachers

Over the lastly few months I convey been working on a novel mass projection too finally convey it completed.

The novel mass is Digital Tools for Teachers.

This mass has been written too designed primarily amongst English linguistic communication language teachers inwards heed though the bulk of the resources too tools contained inwards the mass volition convey much wider role than only linguistic communication teaching.

The mass is available at the introductory cost of £1.99 from:

• iBook Store
• Payhip

The mass contains to a greater extent than than lxx tools too resources too these convey been manus picked because they stand upwards for a broad cross-section of what is at introduce available.
The chapters of the mass are divided into uncomplicated pedagogical tasks that nearly teachers demand to deportment out or help their students amongst too the descriptions of the resources are suitably concise to brand the mass slow for a stressed instructor to access too browse inwards a few spare moments betwixt classes.

The sites, apps too resources inside the mass convey been divided into the next chapters:

• Reading Tools
•  Writing Tools
•  Speaking Tools
•  Listening Tools
•  Grammar Tools
•  Presentation Tools
•  Poll & Survey Tools
•  Infographic Tools
•  Course Creation Tools

You tin rate the sack download the offset 2 chapters gratuitous here:  Tools too alternatives for creating presentations

Technology, Autonomous Learning & a Decline inwards Critical Thinking

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Nik Peachey

5 Costless Edtech Together With Elt Ebooks

This is simply a quick post to part v really curt ebooks that conduct maintain been taken from my accolade winning ebook - Digital Video - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Manual for Language Teachers.

Winner of the 2016 British Council Award for Innovation inward Teacher Resources

The ebooks come upwards from chapter ix of the manual which contains 12 to a greater extent than entries similar these. As good equally the explainer text, which shows y'all how to role the tools together with gives suggestions for tasks y'all tin attain the axe practice inward your classroom, each ebook also has a video tutorial.

Each ebook is available either equally PDF from Payhip or from the iBooks Store. I promise y'all savour these complimentary ebooks together with honour them useful.

Digital Classrooms - TedEd

TED Ed is a corking tool for creating online lessons simply about videos. It enables y'all to construction a sequence of interactive activities simply about the video clip that guides the viewer towards a deeper agreement of the content. It’s an ideal tool for edifice blended learning.

Digital Classrooms - MoveNote

MoveNote is a corking tool for getting your presentations online. It enables y'all to add together a talking caput with voiceover to guide your students through the materials. These tin attain the axe last embedded into online courses or webpages. It’s ideal for creating flipped learning.

Digital Classrooms - MailVu

MailVu is a corking tool for creating asynchronous interaction inward either an online course of report or equally business office of a blended learning unit of measurement of work. It enables asynchronous interaction with simply a web-browser together with a webcam or at that spot is a complimentary mobile app that runs on virtually platforms.

 Digital Classrooms - VideoNotes

VideoNot.es is a corking tool for edifice your students’ digital literacies together with their abilities to role video to report online. It enables students to conduct maintain fourth dimension stamped notes spell they lookout video content together with relieve them amongst the video file.

Digital Classrooms - Wideo

Wideo is a corking tool for creating elementary animated movies. It enables y'all to practice a attain of instruction materials that explicate elementary theories. It’s also slow plenty to role to acquire students creating their ain animations.

I promise y'all savour these ebooks together with honour them useful. If y'all similar them together with thence delight banking enterprise fit out to a greater extent than of my ebooks at: PeacheyPublications.com together with sign upwards for my Edtech & ELT enewsletter to last kept upwards to appointment on all that's novel inward digital learning.

Related links

• 20 Tech Enhanced Activities for the Language Classroom
• Digital Tools for Teachers
• Thinking Critically through Digital Media
• Exploiting Infographics
• Digital Video – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Manual for Language Teachers

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Nik Peachey