We looked at How A Book Is Made slideshow and made up a story and published it on the Web in December, 2008. We made some observations and comments:
Similar:
1. Both have to go through editing.
2. They both have text.
3. Both books and web pages can be written by multiple people.
4. Both books and web pages can have different levels of qualities: good books/good web pages; bad books/bad web pages.
Different:
1. Web site did not get edited as much. Actually, some web sites do not have to go through any editing process at all.
2. It was faster to publish a web page. It’s instantaneous.
3. Books are printed on paper but web sites do not need paper. (Saving trees?)
4. Web sites have built-in spell checks.
5. You don’t have to PRINT things from the web to read them.
6. You don’t have to buy or sell the web stories.
7. The Book on the slide show came from one author but our story was made by the whole class.
8. Things on the web are very easy to find and access.
