Creating a group newspaper using newsfeeds from student journals

Collaborative authentic writing is the goal of this recipe. Students will be publishing their work as journalists, while participating in a group activity to create a dynamic site set up similar to a newspaper.. This site will be publically accessible. Featured "columnists" are the members of the group. The current stories are actually fed from their individual journals; every time the columnist posts to their journal, the paper is updated. This allows students to keep these artifacts (journal posts) in their personal portfolio, while contributing to the group; readers can subscribe and post comments. The following screenshot is one example of a group Newspage. This is the Science Club's work. Each student picked a topic they would write about with regularity. I have a little column about happenings in the club itself.

Getting ready

Create your group and add the members. If this is going to be a course group, change the...