Student peers edited the work and a student committee picked out poems for the book. We just provided the idea and the structure,'' she said. The publishing process was done online, said Josefowicz, and Matthew Gilbert was the first school to work with the company's online system. Poems were put in a word-processing program and sent to Chapbooks. The company formats the work into pages and posts the proofs on the Web.
Teachers can correct the work online at their leisure.
Once a teacher approves the copy, the books are shipped out within five days, Josefowicz said. Mark said he enjoyed ''being able to send it out into the world and being able to have someone see it.'' ''If you have the chance to make a book or publish anything, take it,'' he said. A copy of the book will be in each Duval County public library branch, as requested by students. You have dared to do something different to spark learning in a child,'' she said.