Authoring Compelling Books and Articles

Identify your niche.

Understand what people need.

Make your thing.

Start 'free'.

Tell people about it.

Maintain contact with your audience.

Start planning your next thing.

Repeat.

Break the cycle and take things to the next level.

• Started in 2006 as a way of sharing resources with students.
• Became a commercial project in 2009.
• Currently has paid subscribers from 63 countries.
• Moving to WordPress.
• Resources to have a look at:
  • Glacial landforms with Earth in Chrome [Free]
  • Erosional Landforms [Free]
  • International conflict (on the use of a water resource) [Password needed]

• Compelling teacher resource site produced using Google Sites.
• Uses G Suite for Business.
• Produced by Ellena Mart, Head of Individuals and Societies at the International School of Geneva - Campus des Nations.
• Resources to have a look at:
  • Hurricanes

• An app produced for a focused purpose with intentional traffic driving links to another project.
• Free.
• A curated list of 82 podcasts specifically for IB DP Geography students and educators.
• Produced using glide - all driven from a single Google Sheet.

• Creations tools added to Earth in Chrome in November 2019.
• The possibility to author genuine teacher resources and student creation based activities.
• Think beyond the 'geography'.
• Examples to have a look at:
  • Revising Extreme Environments
  • Anne Frank- Diary of a Young Girl [produced by Josh Willams]

• Relatively easy to produce a visually engaging website.
• Hard to monitise (add a paywall to) later.
• As part of G Suite for Business which can give you a professional online presence.

• Explore the 'new' Creation tools to author resources that an educator would find useful.
• What student experiences could you author where they generate content in Earth in Chrome?