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Activities Ideas

One main idea that is coming out of each group is to have one or more activities within the newspaper to keep the reader interested and keep them reading. By getting them involved with the newspaper they are much more likely to keep reading beyond the first page.

Some ideas that people had come up with to put in the newspaper included crosswords, word searches and criss cross. All commonly used in mainstream newspapers they are very popular with the mainstream audience, and if we could relate them to our newspaper and its contents they might have a similar effect to a learning resource.

One idea that I had was to write a full page article based on the advancements in the media technology in recent years and the use of social networking sites to help publicise and market new products such as films and games and couple that with a crossword based on the article, with all the answers to the clues from the article itself.

Here is a website that I have found that will generate a crossword, input both the answer and the clue and it will automatically generate the crossword based on what you put into the generator, here is a quick example:



http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html

Through my searching of the net for other puzzle generators I came across this one to generate word searches for us:



http://tools.atozteacherstuff.com/word-search-maker/wordsearch.php
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Paper Planning

1. Sketch initial ideas - basic:



2. Extend detail and improve ideas:



3. Start to add titles and main points to the page designs. A lot of writing should have been done now, and what features go where should be finalised:



4. Finalise and print ideas.

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Finalised Teams

Planning Department
 
Liason: Alexander Whitcombe
 
Quality Control

Evindence: Tara Cox/Mike Shaw
Reflection: Mike Shaw/Tara Cox
Schedule: Kirk Kemp
 
Production Team

Red Team

Red Leader: Laurence Smith
Red One: David Pinchen (me)
Red Two: Hayden Martin
Red Three:Matthew Hornby
 
Blue Team

Blue Leader: Philippa Price
Blue One: Joe Robinson
Blue Two: Natalie Nicoll
Blue Three: James Walker
 
Gold Team

Gold Leader: Sam Chappell-Winnington
Gold One: Tim Hodson
Gold Two: Matt Leonowicz
Gold Three: Ashley Atherton
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Questions to ask ourselves

Do you know the audience?

- National distribution
- OCR A2 Media Students
- 16- 19 yo
- Media Savvy students
- Differentiation
- Not all students learn at the same rate or in the same way
- Gender balance

What do they want from a study guide?

- Broad range of contemporary examples
- not a revision text book
- mode of address - not too formal/stuffy

How do they learn?


- Simple yet detailed explanations
- diagrams
- visuals
- writing in own words
- online links
- practical work
- games
- non repetitive practice
- incentive
- motivation
- intrinsic - extrinsic
- competitions

Do you know what the examiner wants?

N/A

Do you know what the client wants?

N/A

How can you insure you hit the expectations of the client/audience/examiner?


N/A
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