Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2012 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It is possible to embed multimedia content
including video and audio, which will make your
book that little bit more special.
Movies a Few Clicks Away with TripWow
By Raluca Filip, Romania
With myebook users can create their own e-book
from scratch or from a .pdf file, incorporate a
myriad of file types into their book, browse and
effortlessly flip through other e-books, and connect
with other members.
TripWow - a super cute tool by TripAdvisor – is my
#1 travel guide and rating place, and an absolute
must feature to make use of when you have
returned from your vacation and wish to share your
photos in a fun way with friends and family, or
when you want to virtually present your town or
country to a foreigner.
From the very beginning I was impressed with the
quantity of options, and loved the way the layout
and the content of a page can be customized to my
liking. Page content can be edited with standard
word processing features, but there are also a great
variety of photo frames, clip art, special effects that
can enliven and/or enforce the content.
Once done building the myebook, the author can
publish it publicly or privately, and specify whether
viewers can add comments or not, or share the
work or not. Once published, the e-book will be
added to the site’s library, and consequently can be
shared across social networks or embedded
elsewhere.
Myebook is a good, professional tool for selfpublishing written content. It is an impressive
service with a variety of use cases – try it too!
TripWow is a user-friendly slideshow program that
is very simple to use but also lets you play creative
director, adding elements like music, animated
maps, and captions to your latest ouvre. And just
as importantly, you can do the sharing and viewing
from the comfort of your own desktop.
The TripWow interface is attractive and easy to
navigate through. You start by uploading your
photos – you can choose between several photo
storage providers such as Facebook, flickr and
Picasa as well as uploading pics from your PC or
Mac. Next, you custom ^