On Thursday night I came across this simple web based tool from David Muir’s post about it – luckily for me I was teaching my class about newspapers last week so I used it on Friday in my literacy lesson. If you have read our class blog you will have noticed we have been doing Dracula as a class text – the kids love it! – and on Thursday and Friday we looked at an event in the story and planned a newspaper article on it. As a class we generated a piece of writing and I typed it into the newspaper clipping generator – the children thought it was great!
Thanks for the trackback. It’s good to see how different people use this stuff. I’m glad your pupils like it. It is such a simple idea, dead easy to use and yet has loads of potential for all sorts of educational uses.
Thanks for the link! I’ve already got some lessons that I can use this for… I’m also going to try and use the Nija Writer from the same site!