Explore some of the recommended electronic newspapers and, in the style of a typical online newspaper, create a Web page, or collection of connected Web pages, made up of the following 10 sections. Draw your material from research on Puk and Aboriginal issues, classroom notes and assignments, newspaper archives and Internet searches. You must follow the conventions and styles of journalism we have covered in the course. Sprinkle your paper with relevant cartoons, features, items and typical newspaper 'things.' Make it relevant to the course and INTERESTING!!! Number each section.
 

Information for your online newspaper will be adapted mainly from your NEWSPAPER PORTFOLIO that you compiled in class.

Key the PORTFOLIO material that you feel would be most appropriate for your Web pages into the WeekWork file. by using the MS-Word wordprocessor.

Once your WeekWork text is polished use the COPY/PASTE commands to transfer the material to the Web pages you have created with Netscape composer.

Include your sources wherever possible or appropriate.

This newspaper is a reflection of all the journalism techniques you have learned during the course and should be seen as a showcase in which you exhibit the best of your Portfolio material.

Edit your stories, smoothing and tightening sentences and eliminating spelling, grammatical, word-usage, style, and any other obvious errors.

USE YOUR CP STYLEBOOK

1. FRONT PAGE: Prepare a front page made up of Northern and Aboriginal news stories or local news: concerts, accidents, celebrations, . Your stories must exhibit your knowledge of good journalistic style: headlines, inverted pyramid, 5 Ws, leads, editing, etc. . Create a nameplate, index and a pleasing layout format for your front pages.

2. FEATURE STORY: Write a feature story on Pukatawagan complete with pictures, maps etc. Drawing from your previous research, give a full description of this Northern settlement, zeroing in on climate, history, topography, culture, etc.

Example: Write a feature that would be useful to someone who is entertaining an out-of-town friend or relative and who wants to show this person points of interest in your area. Are there famous places that everyone ought to see? Can you think of some little-known places that a native might overlook at first?  Limit your "tour" to one or two days. Include practical details as well. How can these places be reached ? Are there opening and closing hours or admission fees? Is special clothing needed such as hiking shoes and rugged outer clothing? Include a simple map if it would be useful to our readers.

3. EDITORIAL: Write an editorial on a major Aboriginal issue, expressing a strong personal point of view.

4. LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Write a 'letter to the editor' concerning a controversial Aboriginal or Northern issue.

5. INTERVIEW/COLUMN:
Part 1: Conduct an interview with a well-known local elder or personality. Touch on this person's background,  qualifications, opinions, interesting anecdotes, etc. Rely upon notes made earlier this year or adapt the interview material found in the Castel/Westfall Cree Dictionary & Memoirs of Elders.
Part 2: Use this interview information to write a column about this person, tying her/her achievements to the concerns of today's readers if possible.

6. A VARIETY OF SPECIAL FEATURES: i.e. horoscope - weather - crossword - comics - public opinion polls - display ads - sports columns - hobby columns, etc. that reflect your personal interests.

7. CLASSIFIED ADS: Insert a number of classified ads ("For sale", Wanted, etc.) that reflect transactions that would be of interest to the readers of your local community.

8. ADVICE COLUMN: Write a letters to the advice column followed by replies from the advice columnist. Your letters should reflect general problems that you are familiar with.

9. WOMEN'S /LIFESTYLE or SPORTS SECTION (reports: hockey game, Winter Games, volleyball, etc.)

10. ENTERTAINMENT SECTION:
Write a review on a CD, Movie, TV Show, Book, or Recent Entertainment Event.

BASIC ACTIVITIES
Use CAPS LOCK to create an on-page title in capital letters
HORIZONTAL LINE
Key and COPY/PASTE your text and present it in a variety of FORMATS:

1. FONTS (this is Comic Font) (This is FIXED WIDTH)
2. SIZES (this is font size 10 ~ normal is 12 ~ most of this page is in larger 14 for projection)
3. COLOURS (this is green)
4. BOLDFACE (the entire page you are reading is in BOLD for projection)
5. ITALICS (this is an example of italics)
6. UNDERLINE (this is an example of underline)
7. LEFT &

RIGHT JUSTIFY alignments

8. CENTRE alignment 9. BACKGROUND COLOUR (the background of this projected page is light yellow)
10. SPELLCHECK & FIND (click ABC Spelling icon and EDIT menu FIND)

STAGE TWO ACTIVITIES
Explore other formatting tools:

Strike Through ~ ^{Super Script} ~ _{Sub Script} ~ Blinking ~

Tab Indents

BACKGROUND COLOURS & IMAGES

PAGE TITLE BAR

KEYWORDS

CUSTOM COLOURS OF LINK PRINT

    Go to FORMAT menu and choose PAGE COLORS AND PROPERTIES for these

 
ADVANCED ACTIVITIES:
Click on the following menu icons and
follow the instructor's directions to create more Web page features:
 

• Bulleted and Numbered Lists (we've used bullets here)
• LINK to other Webpages and e-Mail addresses on the Net

          https://www.angelfire.com/trek/puk
                       BUNTEP e-Mail as a link use       mailto:buntep@msn.com

• TARGET : create internal links (click here to go to top of page)
• TABLES: create tables containing text

This is a table with two columns

and one row

• IMAGE command to import and change the size and position of saved graphics

(photos and decorations)