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- Subject: NEWSDAY '94!!!!
- From: "Global SchoolNet Fdn (FrEdMail)" <lmnet-l@ACME.FRED.ORG>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:11:00 PST
The Newsday Project Page 1
Please print and distribute this call for collaboration to teachers
you know who may be interested in participating.
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Project Name: NEWSDAY (c) Global SchoolNet Foundation
(Thanks to Greg Butler January 25, 1994
for the general information included here.)
Date: March 15 - May 13, 1993
Purpose: To address and improve:
* Academic skills - reading, writing, editing,
revising, interviewing, literature appreciation and
understanding
* Social Skills: cooperative learning, leadership,
listening, discussing, encouraging, sharing.
* Technical Skills: word processing, file management,
keyboarding; telecommunications: terminal software
commands, uploading and downloading.
Summary: NEWSDAY is a multi-curricular project in which students
in each participating school produce a local newspaper
based on the news dispatches submitted on the NEWSDAY
news wire by cooperating student correspondents.
Students become news gatherers and reporters, editors,
layout and graphics artists, and publishers.
Participation on a national and international scale
leads to understanding of broad issues which transcend
local concerns. This project can involve your students
in weeks of cross-curricular activity.
Schools may use a wide variety of methods to produce
the papers, ranging from simple word processor cut and
paste to full DTP packages.
Participants will receive a newspaper produced by each
of the other participants in the NEWSDAY project.
Grade Levels: Upper elementary, junior high, high school. Material
coming off the news wire will appeal to all age levels.
This is an excellent project to encourage profitable
inter-grade participation.
Content Area: Many content areas may be included during NEWSDAY. By
deciding what kinds of articles and features to write,
you can include a focus in almost any content area.
Possible content areas:
Writing Reading Language
Art Social Studies Science
Environmental Science
Number of Minimum of 10, Maximum of 30. If fewer than 10 schools
participants: register, NEWSDAY will be cancelled. When 30
registrations are received we will open registration
for a another NEWSDAY section.
Newsday Theme: Heroes (see project description)
Project Erica Rogers, Global SchoolNet Foundation
Coordinator: PO Box 243, Bonita, CA 91908
619-475-4852
Email: newsday@bonita.cerf.fred.org
Registration: First attached file is the registration form. Complete
the form and email it to the address indicated.
Contents: Attached file 1: Registration form
Attached file 2: Time line
Attached file 3: Complete Project Outline and Process
Attached file 4: Lesson Plan: Writing News Articles
Attached file 5: Lesson Plan: Interview "Hard Times"
Attached file 6: Preparing Student Files for Upload
TO AVOID CONFUSION, PLEASE REFER TO NEWSDAY IN ALL OF YOUR
CORRESPONDENCE.
Attached file #1
Newsday Project
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January 25, 1994
NEWSDAY REGISTRATION
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Only bonafide participants in NEWSDAY will be eligible to receive
copies of newspapers produced by this project.
In order to be a bonafide participant, you must:
a. register by sending the information requested below
b. upload at least five of your best articles (but no more than
10) on NEWSDAY
c. agree to send a copy of your newspaper to each of the other
participants (as many as 30 newspapers)
d. agree to upload an electronic edition of your newsletter for
dissemination to interested teachers online.
e. agree to send the FrEdMail Foundation three copies of your
newspaper, one of which must be on white paper suitable for
reproduction.
To register for NEWSDAY, please complete and return the following
registration form to: newsday@bonita.cerf.fred.org
Your full name:
Your email address:
Your school:
District:
SCHOOL address:
School voice phone:
Home voice phone:
Grade(s) taught:
Subject(s)
Please include a brief description of your school, community, and
students. This information will be sent to all participating NEWSDAY
teachers.
Attached File #2
Newsday Project
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January 25, 1994
TIME LINE
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This time line is a summary. Please see following sections for
further instructions.
Send questions, comments, suggestions (but not news articles!) to
newsday@bonita.cerf.fred.org.
January 25 - March 15
Register to participate in NEWSDAY by filling in the registration
form in attached file #1; mail it to: newsday@bonita.cerf.fred.org
Introduce your students to the concepts and practices involved in
the production of a newspaper and write a "Hello File" which will
introduce you to the other participants.
March 18
Project Coordinator will send you a complete list of all
participants.
March 18
Upload your "Hello File" to send to other participants.
March 21 - April 4
Begin researching and writing articles, planning layout, and
collecting graphics.
April 6
NEWSDAY: Upload your articles. ALL articles should be uploaded by
the afternoon of April 8. (Note: send each article in a separate
message. Ensure each article is identified with author name, age,
school, district, city, country, and teacher.) Send all of your
news articles to: newsday@acme.fred.org
April 11 - May 11
Scan bulletin board and download articles to use in your
newspaper.
Select and edit articles from the news wire, and combine them with
local articles. Layout and publish your newspaper. Merge a text
version of each article into a disk-based version of your
newsletter.
May 13
1. Mail a copy of your printed newspaper to each of the other
participating schools.
2. Upload your disk-based version of the newspaper.
The remaining information files will be uploaded and sent to you upon
receipt of your registration form.
<newsday@bonita.cerf.fred.org> ---------------- 32.39.28N, 117.01.45W
The NEWSDAY Project
Global SchoolNet Foundation, FrEdMail Network
P.O. Box 243 Bonita, CA 91908 (619)475-4852
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