Ross Smith eView puts students in the picture
By
Amanda Jenkins
Ross Smith students
are again leading the world in on-line publishing after the school became
one of the first to feature student-produced videos on their website as
part of the literacy project in 1999.
The Ross Smith
E-View was started this year after articles were put onto an international
schools website with highwired.com, but this year Ross Smith has made
a magazine on the net for themselves.
Once a fortnight on a Friday, freelance journalist and teacher Paul Klaric comes to the school to teach students how to write articles professionally and learn other journalistic skills like editing and interviewing.
Mr Klaric, who has worked for the Advertiser
and the ABC as well as being a registered teacher, said students are encouraged
to write about their world and the things that interest them.
ìI try to get them to view the media as producers rather than consumers and get them to think about the stories that others would like to read," he said.
"This is what
happens in the real world so they are getting real experience.î
Mr Klaric says that English coordinator Mr Michael Fullgrabe does most of the organization "and he does a fantastic job".
"This year he
and I gave a talk to English teachers from other schools at a State conference
and they were very interested in it because Ross Smith is one of the leaders
in the world in this kind of thing, not just in SA, î says Mr Klaric.
He says the future
will involve more things like student movies being put onto school websites
as the technology continues to improve.
ìThese days things
like video and sound editing are all being done on computer so it gives
schools the chance to make their own productions and show them to the world,î he
said.
The eView can be found on the school's website: http://www.rossmithhs.sa.edu.au/eview_t32k3_index.htm
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