Hayley’s Blog

 According to Mei-Yu Lu in Evaluating and selecting online magazines for children the world wide web has enabled readers to have immediate access to great quantities of information. Many businesses use the internet as a medium to promote their products, one of these products are children’s educational magazines. Children’s magazines, also known as e-zines, are a great resource for teachers. There are many factors that determine the popularity of children’s e-zines such as cost,accessability, content and interactivity and reader participation. The great thing about an e-zine is that the authors can constantly update the information so that students have access to the most current information all the time.

The major reasons for choosing an e-zine are the content, as a good e-zine will allow students to access hyperlinks so as they can read it how they want. Moreover a major reason to choose an e-zine is for its reader participation because students will engage more with a e-zine that allows them to write to the author, and publish their own work rather than with one that they just have to read. In my opinion an e-zine should have accurate content and an easy to read, attractive layout for students to learn best. An e-zine has a great impact in the classroom as it allows students to be creative in how they read rather than reading a printed magazine wich presents information in a linear fashion.