Here are just a few of the many possibile ways to use MyNewsroom.co.uk back at school:

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS REPORTING
All too often the news is presented by adults, for adults, in a way that can be off-putting or alienating for young people. MyNewsroom.co.uk provides an ideal vehicle for students to report news and issues that matter to them, in a way that will engage their peers. In this way, each site can act as a news service for your whole school, as well as a mouthpiece for your students’ opinions and viewpoints.

LOCAL NEWS PROJECT
Students can transform their sites into local news centres. They can find out what is going on in your local community, conduct interviews, investigate issues and report their findings in their websites. In this way their sites will become a source of practical information and news about your area for all students in school and perhaps other people living locally.

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Harness the potential of instant global communication via email to team up with a school in another country. Through their e-penpals, each student can find out about a distant country - its customs, culture and attitudes - and its news. They can then use their MyNewsroom.co.uk website to report and explain the news from this country to their fellow students in the UK. Globalgateways.org.uk is an organisation which is free to use and can help you to find a partner school and set up your project.

REMOTE LEARNING
Students who are absent from school for extended periods, due to illness or exclusion, for example, can keep up with their classmates using their MyNewsroom.co.uk website. All they need is access to a computer with an internet connection and then they can produce interviews, reports, news roundups and commentaries, book or film reviews, or essays - all with a professional look and feel. There is no limit to the amount of pages their site can have, so there is no reason for their output to fall behind their classmates’.