Submitted by: Trish Lyons
Collaborators: Greg Metcalf
School: Deep Run High School
Summary
To supplement the school newspaper and provide an online presence for updated student news coverage, the Deep Run student newspaper (The Sentinel) staff wanted to build a website. This required students to research news websites and styles, define the purpose of the site, define the presentation method for the site, define the implementation timeline, design the material collection / workflow method, launch the site, and update it bi-weekly!
The Sentinel is now online via a WordPress blog and can be found at
TIPC Ratings
This lesson is rated as approaching as students self-selected the most appropriate digital tools and information resources in order to create an online version of the student newspaper. Students continually had to determine the authority and accuracy of information for only implementing the online blog but aslo in the posted content.
This lesson is rated as developing as students worked within the The Sentinel newspaper teams to accomplish the class and newspaper goals.
This lesson is rated as approaching as students generate and responded to a series of purposeful questions regarding the creation of the online version of the student newspaper. In addtion, students often had to justify their decision-making processes and engaged in a series of problem solving practices in order to make the online Sentinel work and probject an image of a high quality students news site.
This lesson is rated as developing to approaching because newspaper staff members continued to work on class assignments for the hard copy newspaper while implementing the online version.
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