Newspaper Templates

Extranewspapers

 

I often get  students to write newspaper articles in relation to various topics covered in class! It is great to see this work in a newspaper, I find this handy, and easy to use, Word newspaper template resource useful for this purpose.  It includes a number of different templates that can be edited to suit  purpose and taste!

This is an example of one of the templates:

 

 

 

Keep your emoticons in check

Almost 30 years ago Professor Scott Fahlman suggested that the computer science department of Carnegie Mellon University adopt emoticons on its online bulletin board. On 19 September 1982 at 11.44am he changed the way we write, starting with: "I propose that [sic] the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)".  Thus the emoticon was born!  Find outmore from from this Guadian article