ISSUU - activities

ISSUU: 
This is a digital publishing platform where people upload files that are turned into books or magazines.
The first thing you need to know is that you are going to work with another tool before uploading your work to ISSUU For this activity you're going to make a Power Point Presentation first. 


Before starting with the activities, check out this tutorial:


 
Activity#1 - My Heroes (Intermediate level - Age: 12~15 years old)
1) Think of three people you consider your heroes. They could be artists, sports people, politicians, writers, historical icons or members or your family. 
2) Write a brief profile including the following information: (Write around 100 words)

ü  Where is he/she from?

ü  When was she/he born?

ü  What did/does she/he do?

ü  (When did she/he die?)

3) Write another short text for each chosen person explaining why you consider them your hero. Include information about his/her good deeds and how his/her personality impacted on you. (Write around 100 words)
4) Look for at least one picture of him/her and other images that you could associate with your heroes' lives. 
5) Now you need to put everything together: create a Power Point Presentation. 
6) Look for an appropriate background/template. 
7) Create a cover: "My Heroes". Give it a nice format and include images. 
8) In the second slide you may include an INDEX. 
9) Start adding information about one of your heroes. You should include one big picture of him/her on the first slide and copy the text on another slide. If the text is too long, you should split it into two or more slides. 
(Take into account that each Power Point slide will represent a page on your ISSUU publication)
10) Once you have finished it you are ready to upload it on ISSUU. First access ISSUU and create an account. 
11) Upload your power point presentation. 
One step further...
12) Once you have uploaded the files and the ISSUU is published you can edit it by adding buttons that, for example, lead from one page of the document to another. You can profit from it and add “Go to page…” buttons in the Index so that the reader can go directly to the section mentioned on the list.
(In the sample given at the bottom of this entry, you can see the buttons to “go to page X” on the Index)
13) Now you can add more links to expand information on your heroes. So, look for one video or website that you think would be interesting to incorporate to the information about your heroes. Then create on the appropriate section a link to those videos or websites. 
(In the sample I added links to a poem, to a short story and to a video)

Alternative activities: 
Work on the activity #1 but under different rubrics: 

• "My favourite short stories"
• "Places I Want to visit"
• "Films I would recommend"

Here there's a sample of the activity:
“Artists I admire”