Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Help Us Build a Multi-Media Component for The International Insider


Click here to see how you can help our school make our award winning newspaper, The International Insider, a full multi-media news source: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=299209


Our newspaper, which we publish 6-8 times a year, is international in that our articles have a global focus, students collaborate with students in other countries to write articles together, and we have a network of schools from around the globe with students who report for our newspaper.
Our newspaper has grown from a 4 page to 16 to 20 page layout with a staff of 50 students from all grades. As we are an international studies school with reporters in schools around the globe, we need to move forward technologically to become a multimedia online newspaper. A multimedia newsroom will allow for differentiation in that students who are technologically savvy will play an integral role in publishing a live online newspaper complete with podcasts and video segments.
In order to move forward technologically, our news room needs the proper software. Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Student Edition is a program that combines Indesign, Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator CS4, Flash CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, and more. Such a program will allow all students to benefit both in the newsroom, school and international community, as everyone will have access to our newspaper.
Your help will ensure that my students are able to move our school publications, our newspaper and literary magazine to a new level by adding 21st Century technology, while also providing them with additional opportunities to grow in achieving 21st century learning skills as this software will afford them the opportunities to work as news reporters with cutting edge technology.
To read back issues of The International Insider click here: http://www.csihighschool.org/international-insider

4 comments:

Aimee Horowitz said...

Looks like this proposal is on its way to becoming a reality! I am so excited about this. Can't wait for our newspaper to be a true multi-media publication!!!

Aimee Horowitz said...

Three donors so far! We need your help to make our newspaper a multi-media publication! We truly apprecaite any support you can give us!

Aimee Horowitz said...

We still need $453.00!!!! Help us achieve our goal!

Aimee Horowitz said...

Thanks to donors from New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Tennessee and from the Adam Lambert Network, The International Insider will soon be a true multi-media publication and our student journalists will have the opportunities to work with new technologies so that they can help to make this a reality as they learn more about different forms of reporting. Can't wait! Thanks to all the donors for making our dream a reality!