Comments on: Personalized Online Newspapers

By: D.Oakley

D.Oakley — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:03:37 +0000

I came across this site http://www.crayon.net/ while searching around for writing activities not long after reading your post. It seems to be a way of creating a newspaper based on links to sources of info you choose, and those in the US can input zip codes to get local news and wasther. I haven’t used it yet and it doesn’t really show what the content looks like or how complex it is, but looks interesting.

By: mrlane

mrlane — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:54:17 +0000

I have been working with my mixed ability 8th grade technology class (in Rancho Cordova) on creating a student-run newspaper. This has proved a bit more difficult than I anticpated as my students do whatever they can to stay away from the writing process. That being said, I tried to end-run them by having them creating their own wiki page. I am hopeful that they can pull some of what they put on their wiki page and transfer that onto their own edublog site. Nothing there to share yet — when there is all let you know.

By: jim alvaro

jim alvaro — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:06:44 +0000

Hello Larry

I’ve used a site called newspaper generator in my blog before.
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Here is an expample of how i’ve used it.
http://visitmyclass.com/blogs/theskinny/archive/2008/04/16/141335.aspx

So far I’ve used it to write funny headlines and articles in my blog but I am planning to use it with kids in a number of different ways.

Its easy to use and the kids seem to like it a lot.