Implementation of 'Newspapers and Reports' (SOI-HU-24)

Preparation before the implementation

Here are the few steps that were taken in order to prepare the implementation. First, creating a Padlet and a shared Google document. Then, check if those types of articles are available on Europeana. Finally, adding the links to our Europeana Symbaloo.

Implementation

a. Discussion about online and printed newspapers

What do you think about printed and online newspapers? Are there specific age groups associated with each? Why do people prefer this or that? Does printed media have a long life ahead? Online vs printed newspapers, advantages and disadvantages arranged in a Padlet.

b. Research and choosing a topic for the newspaper

Based on the original project, we decided to produce a newspaper from bits and pieces of Europeana. Students could choose one of the following sections. Then, they had to search for an article in the appropriate content in Europeana, summarize it and then they had to rewrite the article into current English style and actualize the context. The articles were collected in a shared Google document.

c. Newspapers’ sections in the article

news from the world 1,2
local news
sport news
culture
interesting facts

d. Justification of the article

Later, based on the original project with consideration to the age and major of my students, they had to search for a photo with creative commons on Pixabay to justify the text.

Conclusion

Creating a flipbook out of the google document with the recreated articles.

I decided to modify the original learning scenario on the one hand because of the age and the major of my students, on the other hand, because the original included some native language tasks too. Finally, I included native language in a way that many original newspapers chosen from Europeana are in Hungarian, so the students had to summarize them in English. I hope I managed to keep the motives and goals of the original learning scenario whose owner I thank for this great idea.

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Newspapers and Reports created by Justin Nicholas Micallef

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ALINA MIRELA POPA says:

July 5, 2019 at 1:06 am

Story of Implementation of Newspapers and Reports, is a scenario based on an other europeana resources Newspapers and Reports. It uses the digital tools for the activties as innovative idea padlet for starting points about advantages or disadvantages and colection digital on symbaloo tool. The students were asked to express the opinion of the best variant of a newspaper and the ideas were diverse and also funny „ if you hit a fly with an online newspaper, your phone or tablet will be broken”. Then the class starts to find subjects for a newspaper for the sections articles, translated from mother tongue in English, and for each section they have to choose a picture with pixabay tool for the structure of the topics of the newspaper. When articles are ready and arrange they will upload the newspaper in a flipbook . The scenario is for English, Maltese and Expressing Arts topics and uses PBL, fact-based tasks, collaborative learning in groups for solving problems. The easy way to realised the task is to get access to knowledge through smartphones and tablets which are everywhere. More then that, the approach is implementing/developing 21st century competences like global awareness, critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration. Students work collaborative for topics , structure, presentation of the newspaper. The resources is interesting for multidisciplinary approach in the benefit if the students. I like very much the idea of the scenario.

Eva Toth says:

July 12, 2019 at 9:12 am

Thanks for your kind feedback, I also found the original scenario really engaging that is why I decided to adapt it to my own students’ needs.

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karolinanedelkovska says:

July 10, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Dear Eva, very nice and useful approach to teaching with Europeana. I liked the idea of creating a flip book, Newspapers and reports is a LS that I have also used it in my SOI, Students are engaged during the whole process, thank you for sharing!

Eva Toth says:

July 12, 2019 at 9:11 am

Thanks a lot for your kind feedback Karolina. Please let me know if you try any of the tools listed during the new school year.

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Implementation of ‘Newspapers and Reports’ (SOI-HU-24)

Preparation before the implementation

Implementation

a. Discussion about online and printed newspapers

b. Research and choosing a topic for the newspaper

c. Newspapers’ sections in the article

d. Justification of the article

Conclusion

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