Online+Newsletter

Go Paperless!
Online Newsletters or Newsletters which you send in pdf format via email to your members are a recent and very attractive option for TAs which want to cut down costs.

They are also immediate, and more environmentally friendly, saving hundreds of trees for every paperless issue you send!

If you want to create a newletter in pdf format
There are many applications which do this. The simplest way is to use one of the tools you use every day, Microsoft Word 2007 or Open Office Writer (and open source free application), create your content on the page and then, simply save it as a pdf document! If you have an html editor (and even Office allows you to create simple html pages) you can simply upload your content to your website. Here is an example:

The HELTA Newsletter which publishes selections of the print newsletter of a number of teachers' associations in Germany.

If you want to create an embeddable online newsletter
Embedding is a method of creating something, a picture, video, or graphic in one programme/appllication, and then getting its html code which allows you to show it on another page or application, e.g. all the videos you can see in this wiki are embedded from You Tube, Vimeo or other source.

There are many great examples of embeddable online applications and tools which allow you to create your content either entirely online or in your own computer later uploading it and turning it into an embeddable object.

Here are some examples:

Yudu
This is a fantastic online tool where you can already see many magazines and books published, some free to the public and some even for sale!

The writing and editing can be done in your regular word processing programme - e.g. Word - and you then upload it to this website and it converts your pages into an online publication.

Here is an example. Click on the image and the full newsletter will open in a new window.

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Issuu
This is another fantastic online application which can help you present a very professional looking publication just like the previous one.

The writing and editing can be done in your regular word processing programme - e.g. Word - and you then upload it to this website and it converts your pages into an online publication.

As an example for this one, I have chosen to ember Nik Peachey's most excellent book "Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers" which should help you with some of the tools mentioned in this wiki too! media type="custom" key="7229771"

**Simple Booklets**
This tool allows you to create a newsletter entirely online and then save it and embed it into your website, blog or wiki. Here is an example of an embedded brochure from their website. Use the scrollbar at the bottom of the page all the way to the right to see how you can flip the pages. media type="custom" key="7229577"