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Classroom Newspapers, Newsletters, or Magazines

• Paper.li: Free publishing platform for publishing an online newspaper 

 

Newspaper templates (also use blogs/wikis for newspapers)

• Free newspaper templates 
• Drupal (part of their VLE package)
• Moodle (part of their VLE package)
• MTN: Making the News: template
• Paper.li uses Twitter and Facebook to create a newspaper
• Bricolage
• Typo3
• Apple’s iWork Pages 2
• ReadWriteThink: Newspaper template
• Mambo 
• CMSMatrix
• WebGUI
• Hostnuke
• Geeklog
• Zope/Plone
• MakesItGood
• PostNuke
• XOOPS
• eZPublish
• PHPNuke

 

Creating Classroom/School Newspapers, Newsletters, Posters, or Magazines

• 6 Ways for Students to Publish their Writing Online
• Adobe Slate for creating interactive newletters, reports, and magazines
• OpenZine: Create Your Own Magazine 
• Paper.li uses Twitter and Facebook to create a newspaper
• MagCloud: Create classroom magazines with professional templates
• Fodey: access online newspaper clippings and stories for historical analysis
• FLYP: Multimodal magazine
• Michael Hoechsmann: From the Classroom to the Newsroom: Teaching Media Writing, NewLits
• WordPress for classroom notes and newspapers
• MinnPost: How To Do a Newspaper Webcast
• Rebooting the News: The News Literacy Project: Analyzing the News
• Glogster: Creating posters
• WikiHow: How to Create a Professional-Looking Newsletter
• Laurie Henry: Creating a Classroom Newspaper
• Allen Hoffman: Online Newsletters an Eyesore: Online Editors can Help
• Creating electronic newspapers
• The Write Site: Virtual newsroom and newswriting site
• MagCloud: Create your own magazine
• The Beacon School: online school newspaper
• Nettleton High School
• Palo Alto High School: Paly Voice
• American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE): online student newspaper page
• We Media: online community journalism
• Jim Hatten, Edina High School, Edina, Minnesota: high school journalism class
• Jim Hatten's classroom newspaper: Stinger Gazette
• Southerner: South High School, Minneapolis

 

Online newspapers/newpapers transition to digital editions

• Nieman Reports, Harvard University: newspaper transition to digital editions
• Bivings Report: Top 10 Best Newspaper Websites (2007)

 

Online newspapers and magazines for students

• Wiretap: digital teen newspaper
• HarlemLive
• IndyKids: for grades 4-8
• MidLink: Digital Magazine for Students 8-18

 

Journalism Teacher Resources

• High School Journalism (300 lesson plans)
• The News Literacy Project site
• High Five: Journalism curriculum for middle school students
• Journalism Teacher
• Poynter Institute: School journalism
• Teaching journalism
• Journalism courses
• Student Journalism Center
• Investigatory reporting

 

Book publishing for students

• Blurb: publish student projects as books for as low at $13.00