1.+Introduction

Students are assigned roles as part of the "News Crew" who will collaboratively construct the newspaper and distribute it to their families on a fortnightly basis. This class project is designed to suppliment the English curriculum through the construction of texts for various purposes including to inform and to entertain. The technology kla and ICT cross curricula priorites are also integrated throughout students learning activities through the use of this wiki site, where they are required to discuss and decide on the newspaper content using the discussion board, research their articles by using the links on the Research page, use web 2.0 tools to create various sections of their paper and compile their articles and publish their newspaper using interactive templates. This wiki site is designed to be user-centred to assist students with the construction of their newspaer. The "Teachers Area" outlines relevant curriculum information and supporting documents which have been drawn upon throughout the construction of the wiki site.
 * || =Welcome to the Spress! The student press @coolwritings.wikispaces.com where we create, compile and publish our very own class newspaper! =
 * || =Welcome to the Spress! The student press @coolwritings.wikispaces.com where we create, compile and publish our very own class newspaper! =

This wiki site incorporates web 2.0 tools to engage students through the use of innovative online environments and the class newspaper activity motivates students to achieve English and Tecnhology essential learnings as they actively participate to collaboratively produce an authentic and original text that is meaningul to them and their families. Students will also learn that the production of newspapers, which they see in their everyday lives, involves many different areas of expertise and employs a range of positions. For the production of our newspaper alone, we need:


 * 3 Main Article Reporters
 * 1 Sports Reporter
 * 2 Spelling Reporters (who will use web 2.0 tools to display the spelling words for the fortnight)
 * 2 Reporters for the Social pages
 * 1 Printing Press Manager (responsible for ensuring the final draft of the newspaper is at the photocopy room by thursday morning for printing, as the paper is distributed on Friday morning)
 * 1 Publisher (responsible for taking the contents of the paper from Microsoft Publisher and compiling it on the Newspaper press interactive template)
 * 1 Artist (responsible for creating the comics for the entertainment section)
 * 1 Photographer (responsible for using the class camera)

The news crew will consist of half the class (rotated each fortnight) so that students who are not currently on the news crew have a chance to read the paper and provide feedback. Roles are also rotated within the news crew to allows the teacher to identify students strength and weaknesses in their level of literacy and ICT ability. This also allows for students to explore more about their preferred intelligences (see Teachers Area for more information). All web 2.0 applications and English activities will be thrououghly scaffolded, modelled on the IWB and completed as class activities before the students are designated roles for the production of the newspaper. ||


 * = [[image:newspaper-icon.jpg width="101" height="101" align="center" link="1 Newspaper Content "]] || [[image:icon_research.jpg width="97" height="94" link="2. Research"]] ||= [[image:article_icon.gif width="81" height="87" link="3. Student Samples "]] ||=  ||= [[image:publish_icon.jpg width="103" height="103" link="Newspaper Press"]] ||=   ||   || [[image:icon_teachers.gif width="93" height="79" link="Teachers Area"]] || [[image:file.png width="82" height="79" link="References"]] ||
 * = Newspaper Content || Research ||= Student Samples ||=   ||= Newspaper Press ||=   ||   || Teachers Area || References ||

Name: Tenielle Edmondson. Student number: 122 56 309. ED3441 Technology Across the Curriculum, 2010.