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REVIEWS & RESOURCES

Jane’s tips – helping students set up a magazine:

Start off recruiting more people for Try if possible to have a mix of
your editing team than you think is language levels.
manageable – people may drop out.
As a teacher, you don’t want to be
Expect students to ag and have inundated with proofreading articles
ongoing mini projects to sustain – your job should just be suggesting
interest. We usually have a cooking nal improvements.
challenge of some kind. For example,
at every meeting students take Try to get at least one student
responsibility to cook and bring Jane Sjoberg who has technical knowhow
something to share, and then we take involved. Most students these days
photos and vote on the best dish at the are tech savvy and can produce
end of the year. lot of content themselves – this can
also be a way of getting them to try to amazing magazines using templates
Have at least one competition that encourage their peers to contribute, that are available in Publisher or
free software such as Scribus.
can get all students involved – we though most of our articles are inevitably
have an ‘adventure trip’ every year written by the core team.
either in Liddington PGL or Coniston Get other teachers to use magazine- If you don’t have a budget for
in the Lake District and this is an op- article writing as a way of promoting printing, just produce an online
portunity for a ‘best picture or diary writing practice in class or as version of the magazine from a pdf
entry’ type competition. homework. version. Again, there are some great
free programmes that can do this
Make it clear to the editing Make meetings a social event if really easily (we use Youblisher).
team that they might end up writing a possible!

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