If you ever want to publish online, instead of paying for print copies (which are dang cool to have, don’t get me wrong), there are ways to set up academic journals online for free too.

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Free_and_open-source_journal_management_software

I wanted to set up an academic journal for my high school [http://samjshah.com/2008/05/07/a-scholastic-journal-for-high-school/] and I hope to start making it happen next year using some of this open source software.

In other news, I used lulu.com a bit over a year ago to print booklets for a conference I was helping host, and I thought their prices and service were really good. But I was getting all text, no pictures. I don’t know if they are cheap with color added into the mix.

I guess people change after all.

@Ken: I think I found that same utility as I was looking for magazine cover examples. Disregarding my previous gripe about teachers wedging these awkwardly into instruction, I also find these automatic tools somewhat soulless. These utilities have gotta be more careful which creative agencies they strip out and automate. This dates back to Animoto, I guess. [Ooo. Just read that one again and, uh, you and me didn’t agree.]

@Chris: And a personal one, on regrettable occasion.

@Christian: Agh. My jab has sent you into a nitpicking frenzy. My blog can’t cope. You win! Uncle!

While a cleaner sentence would be ideal, it wouldn’t revolutionize the message. Plus, I’m too dang busy counting syllables in haiku-land these days to bother with sentence structures over here in the math wing.

Oh, and is there any way my own copy can address the single words hanging off the secondary article title gangplanks can be removed? A bit busy to the eye, me thinks. Like little eye-drawing orphans ruining a perfectly good day at the park.

You can use it in any class, without any regard for standards, assessment, or curriculum mapping.

Cute little inter-tools on the interweb interwoven in classes with complete disregard for content-specific outcomes.

But…

If there are teachers that let others in their classrooms to do these fun, fun, server-dependent 2.0 (oops) “activities”, well, I think there’s another problem that needs attention.