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Let’s Make a Newspaper!Ben AdelmanEDU614 Final Project
The Freedom online This year at the
Susan B. Anthony Middle School in Revere, we started an online student newspaper called The Freedom.
www. sbafreeedom.org
The next step Now we are
taking it to the next level …
The print version, a 12-page b&w tabloid, will be
published this spring!
How it works Lucidpress is a page-layout program
similar to QuarkXpress (if you’re old-school like me) or Adobe InDesign.
Students pull content from our website to design their own pages.
Google Drive allows me to see their work, comment, and suggest revisions.
When done, we export pages as PDFs and ship them to the printing company.
But wait, there’s more … To guide students in the process, I set
up a wiki called sbafreedom.wikispaces.com.
Now that I have a wiki … I can post resources like PowerPoints
and Prezis. Students can post their best story ideas
weekly. There’s a spot for any other kind of
content I might need to share in a hurry.
Wiki awesome!
Irony? Experts argue that newspapers are
antiquated and nearing obsolescence. My students have argued since
September that an online newspaper isn’t nearly as cool as the real thing.
By using 21st-century technology, we’re putting an old-school form of media into the hands of a new generation.