I used the Newspaper club for the last history session, where children are now writing up the historical detective work, and I was so glad I did ;)
Even though it is very very simple, it still had me & the teacher running around from group to group helping out the computer problems. A couple of the children almost instantly come against the limitations of the Newspaper club, asking to do creative things with their layouts. But I was really glad a I didn’t use indesign for this class – that was a very wise move!
Newspaper club
The Newspaper club has an online widget type service – “… in a nutshell it’s this; we think the web is wonderful and printed newspapers are a tremendous, highly-evolved way of reading stuff. We think combining the two is a good idea. We’re not about news or any particular form of content, we’re about ink on newsprint. Whatever you think would be good to print that way; we think you’re probably right.”
