Friday, February 11, 2011

Newspapers in Education - Deadline Game


Today Weka class took part in an exciting game where they were working in groups to produce the front page of a newspaper.

Each group had a news editor, headline writer, photographer and a chief editor.

Students had to make decisions under pressure following a 'breaking story' during the game.

Your Task:
Post your comments on the game below. Remember to include how you felt your group went, any challenges that you faced and any others thoughts you had.
Good Luck,

Mr Douglas.

10 comments:

  1. I quite like sorting out the headlines and the photos.
    I found it hard pasting everything on before the deadline. Our group worked well but it was a bit confusing at times ;)

    Stephen.

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  2. HI Weka its Andrew I liked the deadline game but it was a bit long.The best bit was the Rhino story because we were making jokes about a nickname Thomas used to have last year. It was hard to meet the deadline because we were given a picture right at the end.

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  3. hi Weka
    I enjoyed the game deadline because now I know what the Dominion post goes though. Although it was tiring I throughly enjoyed it.
    Bye Weka

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  4. hey there weka,
    i like playing the deadline gme it was gr8! but long,i felt a bit rushed i thought my group went well over-all a bit we could of worked on,we needed 2 finish the title,now i know wat its really like if u worked for a news paper copany! see you weka bye
    amelia =]

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  5. Hi weka
    the deadline game was really fun.
    the only annoying thing was when you kept on getting new articles.
    my fav was the rhino one
    katy:)

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  6. Hi Weka, I really enjoyed the deadline game. Because it was fun and I got to have fun with my friends. I did not like when we had lots of articles to sort out.
    BYE everyone.

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  7. Hey Weka

    I enjoyed the deadline game because we got to pretend that we were newspaper writers.
    But it was quite hard to fit all of the info on.

    Bye, see you tomorrow.

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  8. Hi weka class!

    I really liked the deadline game because it was all about teamwork. My job was the news editor, which mean I got to decide which stories went in the newspaper. That was a really fun job! The part I found challenging was that we had a deadline and our team didn't get to put the finishing touches on our newspaper. (e.g. headlines)Apart from that our deadline game was a success!

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  9. Hi weka.

    I really loved the deadline game because it involves working with others. I also liked being able to work together to complete a project with a situation that you have to work hard to get it done in a time frame that others would have to do in their every day lives.It was a great opportunity to experience something that other schools may not be doing.
    see ya tomorrow!

    conor OUT!!!!!!!

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  10. Hi weka class.
    I like this game, because you had to sort all the things into the right places. It was a great opportunity to do this. It was hard putting the stuff in the right places. I learnt that I don't want to be a newspaper man.
    see ya!
    Dylan

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