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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Think All Journalism is Migrating to the Web? These Students Publish Hardcopy Newspaper - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

Think All Journalism is Migrating to the Web? These Students Publish Hardcopy Newspaper - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

Think All Journalism is Migrating to the Web? These Students Publish Hardcopy Newspaper

The-FowlOr perhaps you think that high school students are unmotivated, unwilling to take on complex tasks and totally disinterested in anything that isn't digital?

Well these kids destroy all these stereotypes and more.

Students at Bolder High School in Colorado are 3 issues into publishing their own "underground" newspaper. And they're producing "The Fowl" in old school manner - hard copy with hand drawn illustrations. No InDesign processing for them. As one of the student editors says - "People our age don't get heard that often, because we're not seen as that credible. But we have things to say that we're