1. E-NEWSPAPER FOR EFFECTIVE
AND CREATIVE WRITING
MADE HERY SANTOSA
English Department,
Ganesha University of Education Singaraja, Bali
madeherysantosa@yahoo.com

2. OVERALL AIMS
• foster learning, innovation, and practice,
• provide a real potential audience for students’
writing, potential interactivity, literacy skills,
and team development, and
• help the students improving their writing skill
as well as their creativity.
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3. ACTIVITY PLAN
1. Establishing key issues related to the teaching of writing:
- Effective and Creative Writing
- Newspaper in Education
2. A practical challenge:
- Group formation activities
- Name your Tag and Paper
- Gadget and Gizmos*
- Wh-Questions
- Write your ideas
- Make your newspaper
- E-Newspaper
- Presentation of the paper
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4. ACTIVITY PLAN (cont)
3. Evaluation
4. Establishing Newspaper Team
5. Feedback/discussion
6. Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!*
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5. Extended Notes 1
Using Newspaper in Education
- Nature
- Reasons
- Ways
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7. WHY NEWSPAPER?
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8. HOW?
• Read samples newspaper:
www.thejakartapost.com
• Be sensitive, critical, and positive
• WH (Who, What, When, Where, Why) & H
(How) questions and responses
• Write!, e.g www.crayon.net,
www.google.com/pages
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9. Extended Notes 2
Gadgets and Gizmos
- Used for ‘warming up’ for participants to
make effectively any materials available
- Used to enable them present their own paper
using creativity and imagination
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10. GADGETS & GIZMOS
• Topic: Electronic Gadgets
• Theme: Inventions: Science and Technology
• Levels: Intermediate and Advanced
• Skills: Critical and creative thinking, reading and
writing
• Objectives:
1. Read and obtain information from non-linear texts
2. Write short simple instruction
3. Be innovative
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11. A Glance…
• The workshop
• The E-newspaper:
http://thesplashnews.googlepages.com
• Now: http://issuu.com/thesplashonline
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12. Thank You
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