This week will see my students get themselves ready to learn how to create a newsletter when they return to school after the May holidays. I have already set up a GoogleGroups to facilitate communications between student members and teacher.
A newsletter project was something I did more than four years ago that resulted in several copies of things that happened back then. The newsletter consisted of articles written by my students at that time. The layouts were provided mostly by me but this term, I will teach my students to do such things.
The whole activity is planned for three weeks after the May holidays. It should be something new to the students; they will again use their computers, which I have observed they enjoy; and hopefully we can have fun doing this activity.
The whole discourse is as follow:
First week will be explaining the differences between a newsletter and other publications such as a newspaper and magazine. Layouts and other inclusions in the newsletter project will also be discussed. The class shall be divided into groups of four to five students. The groups will elect a Chief Editor who will be sent invitation emails to join a GoogleGroups. Each group will gather 5 to 6 different campus news and write digital compositions about them.
The second week will see the student groups formulate layouts, edit their articles, etc. The groups have to bring their laptop computers to class to design and layout a newsletter that will include their researches. The teacher will make suggestions, etc.
Things to the students should consider: Layout, header, masthead, TOC, footer, media size.
The third week will will have each group print several copies (one for each group and one for the teacher) of their finished newsletter for distribution. At the end of the project, each group will evaluate the other groups' publication.
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