Organization of the Digital Newspaper

The digital newspaper is going to be designed and applied for a certain level in a classroom but aimed at the whole school. It will be coordinated either by the English or some Computer science teachers; as well the tutor will be guided through the project. Children will make the digital newspaper during their school timetable, two hours per week (one at the English lesson and the other at Computer Science). In December, which is last month of working, they have to overdo extra time at school in some afternoons so as to finish the project properly.

The class in charged of the project will make four groups of 6 people each (there are 24 students in the class). Each group will work in different sections:

1.Scholar News and Worldwide News

2.Leisure time: sports, music, interviews, and events…

3.Supporting material by means of the email such as recipes, stories, favorite books…

4.Puzzles

Children will have to agree in order to distribute the different sections, so they will focus on a specific section they have previously chosen. Within the first three sections they also have to decide the roles of each component into the group:

-Two redactors responsible for the writing of the news

-One editor responsible for the reviewing of the news, which must be corrected before their publication  

-One graphic artist responsible for the designing of the digital newspaper, who is in charge of images, texts and colors

-One reporter responsible for the search of pieces of news

-One interviewer responsible of interviewing interesting people

As an exception, the last group (the puzzles group) will have another internal organization:

-Two persons are in charge of math puzzles

-Two persons are in charge of language puzzles

-Two persons are in charge of presenting a comic

Some tools which students may use:

Microsoft word to make a draft

Google to search for some information and images

The website http://es.calameo.com to make a digital newspaper