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Journalism
Opportunity for High School Students
I am the advisor for an on-line Christian homeschool newspaper called The
Kentucky Morning Star, where homeschool students are the journalists!
My family and I are in our seventh year of homeschooling here in
Louisville, and we discovered an on-line publishing system which
specializes in school newspapers. Perhaps you've heard of it. Itıs called
Highwired.com and several local schools including Doss High School and
Bardstown Middle School are using it to publish their school papers.
My daughter, Noel, is in the ninth grade and hopes to pursue journalism as
a career. She assists me as editor of the on-line paper. We investigated
Highwired.com and discovered it to be a simple, highly customized
publishing system. There is no software to download. No HTML to learn. No
training to attend and best of all, the Highwired.com service is free to
all schools -including homeschools!
There is also a national Highwired.com student paper, and your young
writer will have an opportunity to have his/her work considered for
publication with national recognition!
The Kentucky Morning Star has a distinctively Christian-homeschool
perspective (all articles need not be of a Christian theme) and all
Kentucky homeschoolers are invited to participate. The general format of
Highwired.com is directed toward high school aged students, especially
those serious about learning the art and craft of journalism, but
certainly can be adapted to include those younger students interested in
having their work published. We are just getting started and I currently
have only two staff writers, (two of my own children, 9th and 6th grades).
I would like for The Kentucky Morning Star to be open to student writers
of all ages (K-12).
This letter is an invitation for you and your family to participate in the
on-line publication of The Kentucky Morning Star! Check it out at http://www.highwired.net/Paper/Home/0,4588
,986,00.html
Homeschools are assigned one
Highwired.com newspaper per state and are encouraged to work together in
this on going publication. I was the first homeschool parent from the
state of Kentucky, to register with Highwired.com and therefore I am the
contact person for interested students. If our publication grows in the
number of participating student journalists, as I hope it will, I will
need parent volunteers to work as editors of our student work. If you
would like for your homeschoolers to participate as young journalists or
if you would like to participate as a parent-editor, please let me know.
So, hereıs how you do it:
1. First, look us up at http://www.highwired.net/Paper/Home/0,4588,
986,00.html
(This is the actual school
paper on-line.)
2. Then assign your homeschooled
students to have fun and become a journalist. He/she can write articles
about subjects that interest them or current events. Articles can be
serious and informative, or humorous, or in the form of a column or essay.
We are also publishing poetry. (Articles may or may not be of a Christian
theme, although all articles must be appropriate in nature and subject
matter, for all ages.)
Email the articles to me and include the studentıs name, age, interests,
parents name and email address. (Only the childıs name and age will be
published on-line with each article.)
3. You may snail-mail me at 208 Carey Avenue, Louisville, Ky. 40218 or
email me at tillx6@bellsouth.net
to introduce yourself and your student writers!
I look forward to hearing from you!
God bless.
In His service,
Robin Tillman
499-6563
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