Virtual newspapers and magazines

Classdigitools - Week 5 - Task 1

Creating magazine covers to summarize texts

This week we are exploring new ways to enhance our students' reading skills. After having analysed this amazing lesson plan, we had to choose an article from a list provided by our moderators and summarize it in a magazine cover, newspaper page or brochure.

The articles were taken from Edutopia, a website published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. I chose The virtual classroom redefines education and got really caught by the nature of the subject matter and the multimediality of its presentation.

I tried to summarize it using some of the tools suggested. First I used Fodey which allows users to generate a newspaper clipping image. Today's edition of The Blabber contained the following article:

Then I tried with the cover of a magazine using Big Huge Labs:

The third digital tool I used was ReadWriteThink. I created a flyer and loaded the pdf file on Google Docs.