While perusing my usual PLN locations, I had answered someone's post about things I do in my classroom to make innovative lessons. The next person that posted truly sent an EXCELLENT Web 2.0 application. Fodey.com allows you to create newspaper article clippings about events/themes/etc. and make it look realistic! It only does the one little corner of an article and if your title is too long for your article is will cut it off. However, it will include anything you typed into the article.
My African American Studies class used fodey.com to create Newspaper Articles for the different events in the Scottsboro Boys cases. We had articles covering from their initial arrest to their initial court case to their retrials and finally the government stepping in to release the boys.
My World History class will be using fodey.com for World War II and creating articles for main events during World War II which will be upload into a Google Doc to put them all chronologically.
This application is quick and easy. Students can change the name of the Newspaper, the date, the name of the article, and then write the article itself. Once they are done they click "Generate" and voila they have their article appear at the top of the screen. They can save it (it is a picture file) by downloading it and then they can either send you the file they sent or they can upload them to google docs and create a newspaper clipping timeline.
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