Overview of a research project that resulted in e-books:

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Last June, my twenty-four REACH students chose to publish their research findings as e-books that could be read online. They created PPT presentations that conformed to book design standards and turned them into e-books which were them made available online.  

The project took eight to ten 40 minute periods to complete. [Four periods for forming questions and doing the research, three periods for locating copyright-friendly images and completing their  "Images Used" page(s), one period for a lesson on book design, and two periods to create their books in PowerPoint.]

They submitted their PowerPoint "books-to-be" to my class hand-In folder.  I then used Scribd, a free online social media site to turn each PowerPoint presentation into a book and then into HTML code. [That process -- turning a PowerPoint presentation into HTML e-book-- took three minutes per book.] I was then able to just copy and paste the HTML code onto a Web site like this one.