Several web magazines by and for children are also promoting the use of the web as a means of publishing individual student writing projects, including poetry, artwork and stories. Three Wishes Kidstuff - Children's Publishing Saranac High School's Freshman Civics Essay Page Dr. Brooks' Web Publishing Class Projects back to top Class News on the Web One of the earliest web projects for a class is to develop a class web site, so that additional web publishing projects will have a place to be published. They can decide what to include on the class page, the categories of information to share as a class and other elements such as background colors. Students can learn that web pages are intended to be a form a dynamic publishing, with new information being added on a regular basis. I encourage you to consider a class calendar of events as well as student accomplishments news on a regular basis.
Students can work ahead of the class and prepare web resources for upcoming units.
Class news pages create a virtual community of the class on the web, with possible interaction with visitors and their web sites as a means of broadening that social space. Just as individuals have both professional resume pages and personal user pages, classes can include both educational as well as personalized space for students. Students need ways to take pride in their school and their teacher and classroom. Not much, but my sense of the word has to do primarily with intended audience. A report is generally created and given to a small group of people, in the case of school, to the class.