Скачать или смотреть 2015-16 Student News Challenge by Storychasers

Learn more and enter on:
http://storychasers.org/snews

Script for 2015-16 Student News Challenge

INTRO

The 2015-16 Student News Challenge is open to all teachers and librarians in public and private schools in the United States and Canada, who teach students in preK through 12th grade. Teachers and librarians living and working outside the United States and Canada can join the challenge, but are not eligible to receive a digital backpack of media equipment because our postage budget is limited.

In this video, we’ll address why you should have a student news program at school, how your students can participate in this challenge, and what you can receive if you sign up.


WHY

Why have a student news project?

Every school and classroom needs to share stories about good student learning with parents and members of the community. By sharing these stories from school, we build bridges with constituents and open up windows for others to peer into our classrooms and our minds as we learn, collaborate, study and grow.

Students need real world opportunities to develop both traditional and digital literacies. Student news projects can give them chances to practice written and oral communication skills with both analog and digital tools.

Young people also need opportunities to practice digital citizenship with adult supervision. Your student news website can be a teacher-moderated space for students to meaningfully learn about the ethics of sharing text and images, respecting copyright, and many other issues important in our connected, digital age.

HOW

How can your students participate in the 2015-16 Student News Challenge sponsored by Storychasers? First, setup a class or school blog site to use for sharing news, updates, and student work. Commit to sharing at least one post PER WEEK during the school year. This website can be created using a variety of websites including Blogger, Wordpress.com, KidBlog, EduBlogs, EasyBlog.org, or others.

Second, create a short, 30-90 second video explaining why you want to participate in the student news challenge. This can be a quick video you record with a smartphone, or a video you create with an app like Adobe Voice, which I’m using to make most of this video. Explain Everything, Puppet Pals, or something else can also be used. It doesn’t need to be fancy, complicated, or long. Just a few sentences about why you want to participate, or why you think student news is an important school activity.

Third, submit your information on a Google form we’ve created, including the link to your school news website and your video. Find the form on storychasers.org/snews. If you don’t have a YouTube channel, share a link to your video on DropBox and we’ll share it on our Storychasers YouTube channel for you. Visit Storychasers.org/snews to link to the form and more information about this project.

WHAT

What will you receive if you participate in the Student News Challenge? First of all, the first 50 teachers to register will receive by mail a digital backpack of digital storytelling equipment. This includes a Storychasers backpack, a 12 megapixel digital camera, a SD card, a digital audio recorder, and a USB headset with microphone. You and your students can use this equipment to supplement your classroom digital toolkit as student news producers.

Secondly, by participating you will receive amplification of and feedback on your students’ news posts on your website. A primary goal of this project is to showcase student news programs in different parts of the world. We encourage you to share student news posts on Twitter using the hashtag #snews1516, and encourage your own student journalists to write constructive feedback for other student authors participating in the challenge.

Third, by joining the student news challenge you and your students will have opportunities to participate in periodic Google Hangouts during the year, sharing experiences and tips for student news and media production. You’ll also receive support from Storychasers when you have questions.

Conclusion

Every classroom and school needs to share student news! Be a digital pioneer and join the 2015-16 Student News Challenge with Storychasers! Visit storychasers.org/snews to get started. We look forward to reading, watching, and sharing the great school news your students will share in the weeks and months to come!

Shared via YouTube Capture