NEIT2011+OpenSpace2+D


 * Daily Newspaper**

Questions: Pushback from administration? How to get content?
 * __A Daily E Newspaper - Cliff Paige Fairfield Country Day School k-12 (260 boys)__**

Value of e newspaper - communication from kids The students send 10 stories a night to the manager

Let’s do an online daily newspaper! - everything is public. emailed and published on the website.

Use whipplehill pushpage (not 2010) Emailed to 700 people every day (all kids, parents and alumni) Identification of kids? Don’t identify kids in pictures but use first and last in articles

Takes about an hour and a half in the evening and is published in the morning for the kids to read

Use downloads (old songs); Poll content from kids Kids create the content - from a scratch project in 1st grade; article about favorite soccer star, Spanish word of the week by the Spanish Teacher, animal of the day, an exclusive interview with another student

The manager picks the pictures - the kids write the articles The manager doesn’t edit the work for spelling or grammar - just for content They learn responsibility of writing articles, of meeting deadlines, etc. The students dont receive credit - they might get an award at the end of the year but nothing credit-wise They read it during attendance time in homeroom There is no comment section -

Discussion of blogs vs. email newspapers Pushback for blogs is because it is very OPEN to the world - the pushback wants everyone to log in to make it work

Trouble finding the right platform for posting blogs - edublogs, blogger, wordpress, lots of different problems with keeping it private

Asking the kids to write content that is school related doesn’t happen too often - sometimes the coaches ask a kid to write about a game

Using pushpage2010 - cant “Read More” > instead using pushpage allows for multiple articles

Is there pushback about number of emails? Not as much but they want to cut down the number of emails anyway

It would be great to have blogs going to allow students and faculty have an outlet to discuss and post

Problem with only showing perfect work from students - they dont learn that way and they aren’t perfect.

It gives the school a rhythm and a beat - it unites the school in a way that an assembly or a meeting doesn’t.