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Newsmaker

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NewsMaker provides students an easy, affordable, and fun platform to practice writing, speaking and presentation skills, with the help of interactive digital media.


With NewsMaker, students take on the role of news anchor and producer, creating their own story in 3 easy steps: Write! Read! Publish!

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NewsMaker

Reinforce Language Arts Skills in 3 easy Steps!

Students role play as a news reporter,a news anchor, and a news producer.
NewsMaker provides students an easy, affordable, and fun platform to practice writing, speaking and presentation skills, with the help of interactive digital media.

NewsMaker is neither grade-level specific nor content-area specific. It is a tool to help students improve their communication skills while mastering content in any subject area.

With the help of rubrics, NewsMaker provides individual student with immediate feedback for self-assessment of performance and it also facilitates peer critiquing, especially in the area of oral skills. Students frequently choose to rehearse and re-record in order to improve upon fluency, rhythm, pacing, intonation and expression.

  

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Write! Read! Publish!

Newsmaker step 1   Step 1 - Write

In the role of the ‘reporter’, the student plans and writes a news story. NewsMaker can effectively spotlight one or several of the criteria of effective writing: ideas and Content, Organization, Voice,Word Choice, Fluency, and Conventions.

 

    

Newsmaker Step 2

   Step 2 - Read

NewsMaker is used to target the five essential components of reading to build a solid foundation of linguistic understanding for the reader: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension.
     

Newsmaker step 3

   Step 3 - Publish

NewsMaker easily facilitates an environment for students to produce well-organized presentations that clearly and concisely convey concepts and information, and provides immediate feedback for selfassessment of performance.
     
 

Testimonial

“At Whitsunday Anglican School we use Newsmaker across all year levels, from the raw excitement of early Junior School students developing news articles on Tolerance which they present to assemblies, through to Senior School Year 11/12 Multimedia and Business students preparing alternative style oral presentations.  The package is so intuitive to use but with sufficient options and capabilities that there is no need to focus on the use of the software but more on the task at hand.

In short, Newsmaker allows students to integrate ICTs in a way that, as a teacher, I have been looking for in software a long time.  Because it is so easy to use, the software becomes the tool to develop a valid product not the learning focus itself.”

Col Thompson (Director of Information Services, Queensland, Australia)

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Additional Information

Manufacturer Eye Power Games
Operating System Win/Mac
Windows System Requirements Basic System: Windows XP or greater, 1.8+ GHz Processor, 512MB+ RAM, 5+ GB Available HDD Space, Video Card with 128+ MB Video Memory
Mac System Requirements Basic System (2006): Mac OSX 10.4 or greater, 1.8+ GHz Processor, 512MB+ RAM, 5+ GB Available HDD Space, Video Card with 128+ MB Video Memory

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