Ebooks and ESL/EFL/ESOL – what do they have in common? A lot!

One of the wonders of the internet and social media is the amount of useful information that you come in contact with. From one site, I found this wonderful link on writing an ebook by Jonathan Kranz. He calls his book, “The eBook eBook: How to Turn Your Expertise Into Magnetic Marketing Material”. Jonathan is the principal of Kranz Communications and the author of “Writing Copy for Dummies”.

Even more interesting is the fact that Jonathan has published his “Ebook Ebook” under the Creative Commons License and gives away free downloads.

“Ebook Ebook…” covers such topics as:

• What Will You Write About?
• Why You Need Conflict and How To Create It
• Organizing Your eBook Piece by Piece
• Getting the Word Out: A few thoughts
  on promoting your ebook
• 10 Practical Tips for Successful eBooks
• Your eBook Checklist

His writing style is crisp and clear with nuggets of humor woven in.

So what do writing ebooks have to do with ESOL/EFL/ESL teaching?

I see ebooks as a great tool for a teacher to write for her/his students and as a possible course long project for students, naturally about topic areas they know and keeping in mind their language level.

Take a look at Kranz’s Ebook Ebook and let me know what you think. How can you use ebook writing in your ESOL course? Write your thoughts and comments in the box below.

You may download his ebook about ebooks (for free and without registration) from this link: The eBook eBook: How to Turn Your Expertise Into Magnetic Marketing Material.