Breaking the news

Extra, extra!

Your experience as a reporter is more and more noted. You already know how to find out information and how to write and present news stories about past, present and future events. It is time for you start up your online newspaper in which you can include some breaking news that happen at your school or area.

At the end of this section, you will have:

Gathered and organized the information you have collected.
Designed the format of your newspaper.
Produced and edited the different parts of the newspaper.
Promoted your newspaper on the web and social networks.

Please, follow the instructions to carry out successfully the final challenge.

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As you did in the other missions of the project, you are going to work on the final challenge with three other students. Remember that you and your classmates can learn a lot by working collaboratively.

Your online newspaper

All your expertise and knowledge will enable you to face the great challenge you are about to start: the design, production and promotion of your online newspaper.

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Your work on the final challenge will be assessed by your teacher with the criteria included in the 'Rubric for assessing the project' (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).

Please, follow the steps that we suggest you to complete the challenge.

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In groups of four students, you are going to create an online newspaper. You can choose one of the following online tools.
- ARTHR
- Paper.li
- Crayon
- Zinepal
Collect all the news stories that you all have written throughout the project and distribute and include them in several sections.
Among the sections, include a section entitled 'Did you know?' Here, you will publish all the news articles that you all have done on important people or facts in the past.
Create the 'Coming event' section. Here, include all the news stories related to the activities that your school is planning to celebrate some international days.
Invite other students from other courses to collaborate in your newspaper by writing their news stories so that you can get it updated regularly.
Copy the URL link to your online newspaper and post it on the page entitled 'My digital resources' of your Weebly site. Share it on Pinterest with your classmates by attaching an image..

Promoting your work

You have made a great effort to complete all the missions and the challenge within this project. At this final stage of the project, we encourage you to show it to as many people as possible. The promotion of your project is a very important part of your work. Otherwise, what is the point in doing such hard work if nobody knows about it?

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In order to make this possible, we present you several activities that you must / could develop. Click on the heading below and read several ideas on how to promote your online newspaper.

Activities to promote your work

Why don't you show all your work to your family, friends and classmates? In groups, you will prepare and develop a complete presentation of your work. The final result can be developed in the classroom or/and recorded as a video that will be uploaded on a channel.
You can put flyers on the school walls announcing and promoting the launch of your online newspaper. Include the link to the page where it can be viewed.
We want you to promote it by using the social network Pinterest. Your teacher will create a board and will invite you to collaborate by inserting the link to your newspaper. Remember to insert an image of the newspaper front page. You will find out the number of people that pin your newspaper, which means they like it.
Another promotional activity can be done by using your own school web page. Your teacher will create a page entitled 'English Portfolio - 2nd Year CSE' in your school website and will include the links to your classmates and your own Weebly site. This would be not only a good way of promoting your work within your school community, but also a way of reaching a higher number of people interested in learning English through collaborative projects.

Any other ideas? Can you imagine other ways of promoting your work?

Learning diary - project assessment

Your participation in this project will be completely finished after you evaluate your own experience all along your learning process.

You will create the final post entitled: "Breaking the news. Assessing the project". Here, reflect on your work and answer the key questions below.

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