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The newspapers of the school are a wealth in the scolastic education.
Written and produced by students for students, but also read by teachers and parents, they represent the desire of young people to communicate, to confront and discuss major social issues and small problems of everyday life.
Thousands of newspapers are active in schools in Europe: newspapers printed occasionally, perhaps only one number a school year, newspapers with a more organized layout, printed on a regular basis, newspapers free distributed, newspaper sold outside the school for self-financing. Every newspaper has its own specific character, a strong original content, with items of culture or politic or humor cutting.
Prior aim of the project is to organize a European school newspaper sharing articles of different European countries with the objective of enhancing and promoting this important mean of expression, managed by students.
- Subjects: Art, Biology, Foreign Languages, Health Studies, History, Language and Literature, Natural Sciences, Social Studies / Sociology
- Languages: EN
- Pupil's age: 14 - 19
- Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
- Aims: - Construction of a European school newspaper by students, as a supplement of single school newspapers.
- Implementation of educational training... read more- Construction of a European school newspaper by students, as a supplement of single school newspapers.
- Implementation of educational training aimed to enrichment of the types of writing.
- Education of students to read, understand, reprocess newspaper articles.
- Promotion of the European dimension in journalistic information.
- Comparison of the historical / social / artistic reality of the involved countries.
- Improvement of the knowledge of languages and of the use of technological equipments.
- Establishment of educational partnerships during a long period involving, possibly, all people that work within the school: students, school administrator, teachers, administrative staff. hide
- Work process: The starting date of the project is 15th, January 2009 to be finished in the middle of May 2009.
The... read moreThe starting date of the project is 15th, January 2009 to be finished in the middle of May 2009.
The project will be divided into four stages:
Stage 1
Students are informed about the general aims of the project “Students in drafting for a European school newspaper”. They will decide if they prefer individual, pair or team work in different stages of the project. They are also welcome to change some project steps by giving serious arguments for that and upon a common acceptance of the coordinating school and the rest of the cooperating partners.
Students will work gradually online (portal TwinSpace), in different stages following the time limit for each stage and they will be obliged to collect the materials for the final presentation (PowerPoint) and portfolio. The materials collected in the portfolio will be a tool to make a final selection of the best article written by students of European countries which have shared in the project.
Stage 2
a) First week of every month:
Students download from TwinSpace portal, from "Our newspaper" folder, the format page of the newspaper (in Word) to be completed, entering their article in columns marked by the flag of their state and the name of the school, scrupulously respecting the margins and the font size proposals. After having added on it their article, students load again the amended page in the same folder.
At each school will be allocated from month to month a different place in the page, so that all schools implement a different type of item. The position of the page of the newspaper may be changed only requiring a change to another partner school.
The themes on which to focus the articles of students will change from month to month.
The theme of January could be: “The school where I study and the school I would”.
The theme of February could be: “Racism and prejudice”.
The theme of March could be: “The use of drugs among young people in the world”
The theme of April could be: “At the end of this year what I learned at school?”
it is not mandatory that all articles should be aligned to these issues. Indeed, it would be better that students of each school would follow the issues of national interest: so we could get an overview of the deepest issues in Europe, comparing similarities and differences between countries.
The theme of the month should not be treated compulsorily in all articles, but possibly at least in leading article and in the satirical cartoon. Other pieces may also chronicle the local or national problems, coupled with the theme of the month. The shoulder article will be written using the kind of interview.
Articles will be written in English and then translated by students of each school in their national languages. So all students could read, in each school newspaper, news about other European nations. They will deal with issues and news affecting other European schools.
b) Second week of every month:
b.1. L’insegnante refente per la scuola a cui è stato assegnato l’articolo di fondo sarà responsabile dell’assemblaggio in un'unica pagina degli articoli contenuti nei vari file in formato Word, depositati da ciascuna scuola nella cartella “Our newspaper”. Lo stesso insegnante salverà la pagina finale nella cartella “Our newspaper”.
b.2. Students download the completed newspaper and translate the articles from English to their own language.
b.3. Students publish the newspaper in their TwinSpace folder and, if their school has a school magazine, they print copies to be attached there.
c) Third week of every month: Students will promote the project outside their class, making a photocopy in A3 format and exposing it on the dashboard. Students photograph the pages of the newspaper displayed in the dashboard or hung on a wall of the school or while they are read by other students or people. These photos will be collected in TwinSpace photo gallery.
d) Fourth week of every month: In a special 'Forum' created in TwinSpace, the partners discuss the contents of articles and write their opinions on the covered topics. All comments are documented so in class students can analyze the results of the discussion, identifying similarities and differences among opinions and points of view of students from European countries.
During this week it is possible to entertain real live debates, thanks to the "Chat" instrument on TwinSpace.
Stage 3
First week of May: Selection of the best article published during the school year, in order to encourage the rise of new initiatives. The selection could be made by a jury of all students and teachers which have shared in this experience drafting.
The results of the selections made in each partner school will be posted on TwinSpace in Excel format in the folder “TwinPulitzer Price”.
Stage 4
Second week of May: Group evaluation of the benefits from the project made by students (if their participation was advantageous). The evaluation criteria are the following:
a) Participation in the information exchange;
b) Choice and variety of information;
c) Following the time restrictions in each stage;
d) Reliability of carrying out all the tasks in project stages;
e) Means of newspaper (the selection of photos, illustrations, cartoons etc.) hide
- Expected results: 1.Presentation in PowerPoint with results of students’s evaluations.
2.Portfolios with newspaper pages completed to read in every language news of... read more1.Presentation in PowerPoint with results of students’s evaluations.
2.Portfolios with newspaper pages completed to read in every language news of the scolastic year.
3.If everything works well, teachers can decide to continue the project with their partners in September, after summer holidays. hide
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