Let’s make a newspaper!

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? Google Drive and an app called

Lucidpress.

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.