Spotlight on the 1996
SIGTel
Online Award Winners and Honorable Mentions
NewsWave
Dalia
Naujokaitis
This project
has been
repeated three times since the fall of 1995. All the enthusiastic
classes participating
in the project are the authors, for NewsWave could not exist without
them.
- Fall Issue:
UN at 50
years (26 classes across Canada)
- Mars Above
and Beyond:
Marsville (30 classes from the Ottawa region)
- Greening the
90s: in
progress (23 classes worldwide)
St. Elizabeth
Catholic
School
893 Admiral Ave.
Ottawa, ON K1Z 6L6 Canada
NewsWave is a theme-based electronic and print news magazine created,
illustrated,
and published by students for students. In this project students
around the
world write news articles and upload them to the NewsWave listserv
(mounted
on Canada's SchoolNet) to create their own electronic "wire service."
Each participating
class then chooses which materials to download in order to publish its
own news
magazine or newsletter. Hard copies of publications are shared among
participants
by "snail mail." The Grade 6 students at St. Elizabeth School use the
uploaded
articles to create, manage, and publish NewsWave electronically on the
World
Wide Web for the whole world to see. Students participating in this
multidimensional
project not only become researchers and analysts, but also writers and
publishers.
Through the use of technology, they gather, analyze, process, and
communicate
information dealing with contemporary issues in the real world.
Through their
own Youthspeak forum (on the listserv and home page)students engage in
online
discussions based on the theme that is being investigated.
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