I started a school newspaper. Use it as a template.

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I started a school newspaper. Use it as a template.

Postby bum1 on Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:56 am

Hey ya'll I started a weekly paper for my school. Feel free to use it as a template. Change the title
and the articles related to my school and change the quotes from me.

The newspaper: http://www.city.hirakata.osaka.jp/freepage/DAIITI/English/news/oct.html
Click on word document. The web version is having trouble on some Japanese computers.

Substitue your own weather information by cutting and pasting from
here: http://www.jma.go.jp/en/week/

If you want to use the newer additions that come out please go here.

Website: http://www.city.hirakata.osaka.jp/freepage/DAIITI/English/english.html
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Re: I started a school newspaper. Use it as a template.

Postby lkelly2477 on Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:25 pm

That's nice.
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Postby lkelly2477 on Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:41 am

Questions:

How did you go about distributing it?

How was it received?

It's all in English so did the students show interest?
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Postby pakalika on Thu Jul 01, 2010 3:31 pm

I just made a school newspaper. I kinda went off bum1 idea. To distibute it, I just put it out in front of the teachers lounge and told the students about, Some were curious about. So they took it. Some of the articles, if the word were hard, I made hint word on the bottom just like there book. The comic were a little small, sop i started running manga, one piece, in english to get them to practice reading. That went quick. 30 copies gone in 4 days.
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Re: I started a school newspaper. Use it as a template.

Postby Otaku on Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:02 am

pakalika wrote:I just made a school newspaper. I kinda went off bum1 idea. To distibute it, I just put it out in front of the teachers lounge and told the students about, Some were curious about. So they took it. Some of the articles, if the word were hard, I made hint word on the bottom just like there book. The comic were a little small, sop i started running manga, one piece, in english to get them to practice reading. That went quick. 30 copies gone in 4 days.


If you haven't already, try running a comic contest where you blot out various comics' text and the students have to fill in the blanks using English. I've done this quite a few times with my students...really popular!

Keep up the great work, Pakalika!
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Postby Richard_Benoit on Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:33 am

My news paper has been up and runnin since the start of this year! Thanks for the great idea bum!
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Postby hokkaido1 on Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:54 pm

good stuff

impressive
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Postby Yebisu on Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:45 am

Thanks bum! I'm starting my school newspaper (using your template of course) from the start of this year.
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Re: I started a school newspaper. Use it as a template.

Postby Otaku on Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:49 am

Good luck, Yebisu! I'm interested to see how it goes. Keep us updated!
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Re: I started a school newspaper. Use it as a template.

Postby himitsu on Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:37 pm

Otaku wrote:If you haven't already, try running a comic contest where you blot out various comics' text and the students have to fill in the blanks using English. I've done this quite a few times with my students...really popular!


Great idea! Have just started to do that and am curious about the turnout. I really hope a few students will participate.
The Marvel website used to do such a contest, took part a couple of times (got 3rd once^^).
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