1. Let’s Make a
Newspaper!
Ben Adelman
EDU614 Final Project

2. The Freedom online
 This year at the
Susan B. Anthony
Middle School in
Revere, we started
an online student
newspaper called
The Freedom.
www. sbafreeedom.org

3. The next step
 Now we are
taking it to the
next level …
The print version,
a 12-page b&w tabloid,
will be published this
spring!

4. How?
 Google Drive and an app called
Lucidpress.

5. How it works
 Lucidpress is a page-layout program
similar to QuarkXpress (if you’re old-school
like me) or Adobe InDesign.
 Students pull content from our website to
design their own pages.
 Google Drive allows me to see their
work, comment, and suggest revisions.
 When done, we export pages as PDFs
and ship them to the printing company.

6. But wait, there’s more …
 To guide students in the process, I set up a
wiki called sbafreedom.wikispaces.com.

7. Now that I have a wiki …
 I can post resources like PowerPoints and
Prezis.
 Students can post their best story ideas
weekly.
 There’s a spot for any other kind of
content I might need to share in a hurry.
Wiki awesome!

8. Irony?
 Experts argue that newspapers are
antiquated and nearing obsolescence.
 My students have argued since
September that an online newspaper isn’t
nearly as cool as the real thing.
 By using 21st-century technology, we’re
putting an old-school form of media into
the hands of a new generation.