Based upon communication strategies in educational field, this essay is an approach to the analysis of School Journalism development through Internet, a project academically supported by UNLZ and sustained by the Telephone Company Foundation.
The programme provides teaching-learning strategies and tools to create, develop and strengthen the capabilities of Latin American educational institutions in the adequate usage of TICS in education. The school newspapers available through Internet during the last three years have been taken into account. The goals to be attained are disminishing the users´digital gap and the reaffirmation of their own words, respecting both dialogue and validity of different ways of thinking, so that the consolidation of a tolerant or enlightened spirit as well as democratic values are shared by citizens in a complex thought level within a local- global frame.
c) Description of the methodology in use
This research approach is applied to a variety of multiple and dynamic scenarios.
The size of the sample includes the total number of cases under consideration - one hundred and three publications. This amount has been the outcome of transference of knowledge from well-trained teacher staff to students and members of the local educational community.
Our purpose is to move headway into the analysis of newspapers, from their early starts and through their advancing stages, towards diverse levels of appropriateness.
The following items are to be regarded:
A. Appropriate technological level presented by the publication system management.
B. A four-folded category analysis in relation to:
1. institutional authorities´discourse
2. discourse of teachers engaged as performers.
3. participant students´discourse.
4. discourse of community members understudy.
Based upon this analysis, the emerging cases are to be described, placing the focus of attention upon their different sources of origen at institution level, as well as upon the special features of their performers.
d) Highlight the main outcomes
We find evidences that point out that there is a wide range of possibilities in the access into publications management. The samples provide a great variety: number of issues, type of content level of participants - whether students, teachers or performer members from the rest of the community. The extent comprehends a multiplicity of ranks: institutional placement in reference to the degree of student´s acquaintance with technology is relevant, on one side; on the other side, it is also commendable the relation of freedom of speech in reference to team technological readiness. Moreover, it has to be regarded the students´ level, capacity and envolvement in the project without forgetting the permeability of the outskirt educational community surrounding the institution itself.
e) Discuss the main or main outcome
Thanks to Internet, school journalism allows us to establish within an educational institution, a communication channel open to the local community and the word at large; thus enabling the booting and development of horizontal communication among different users from different systems. Furthermore, it provides, at the same time, an insight into the diachronic evolution of pronouncements. This is facilitated by consulting the publication sets of schools, year after year, or by having access to previous editions of each institution; thus, building up a record of highly-esteemed cultural value. Since the project has been developed in different scenarios, the outcome has brought about a great spectrum of applications.
Taking publication evaluation as a starting point, we are able to design growth strategies for the advancement of research. These strategies consider the complexity of the processes that come into being when open channel communication through Internet is customized.
By observation of certain tendencies, we will be able to rethink strategies for a better implementation of the project, respecting different necessities and limitations, encouraging the value or unvailing possibilities and excellence of different group or team performers.
Performance experience is evaluated; and in concomitance, when necessary, actions are modified accordingly.
This project is enforced with success at present, so future growth and improvement is expected..
