P01.V52.I4
black
cyan
magenta
yellow
SUMMER 2013
Page 16A
ALTERNATIVES
Continued from page 13A
The price may seem steep to
those use to operating free
on the ASNE site, but is not
that high compared to many
commercial hosts. Their SNO
FLEX design system offers six
basic templates for sites that
can be customized in numerous ways. Still, many users
won’t make major changes
which may lead SNO sites to
have some of the sameness
that was a problem on my.hsj.
org.
Edublogs
Though Edublogs (edublogs.
COURTS
Continued from page 14A
put curbs on student free
expression.
In the morning, she spoke
to high school journalism students at an SSP (Sponsors
of School Publications of
Greater St. Louis) Convention
at Webster. Almost 650 students cheered Tinker at the
convention as she quizzed
them about the five freedoms guaranteed in the First
Amendment.
Mitch Eden of SSP, who is
journalism adviser at Kirkwood
HS in suburban St. Louis, was
thrilled to see his students
TINKER TOUR
Continued from page 15A
have been preparing for
the tour. Although they’ve
both done plenty of public
speaking, they attended
what Tinker described as “a
powerful workshop in New
Mexico called ‘Real Speaking,’
to be really up to speed for the
tour.” She has already tested
Adviser Update
org) was designed primarily
as a site for student bloggers,
its WordPress templated sites
work fine for hosting journalistic websites as well, and the
price is definitely right. The
site offers very basic sites
free, with an Edublogs Pro
account which includes 10
GB of storage space available
for only $39.95 a year which
includes great network management tools including online
statistics. One great feature of
Edublogs is complete monitoring control of what comments
show up on your site. The
WordPress blog allows you
to post regular content to the
site, while unlimited pages
allow you to post the contents
of your print publication along
with your dedicated website
content. And, Edublogs sites
are super easy to use and
manage. As an advantage
over these other alternatives,
Edublogs offers dozens of
distinctly different themes for
your site, though they lack
some of the bells and whistles
of sites offered by other alternatives. The many options
guarantee that your site is
unlikely to look like everyone
else’s.
Interscholastic Online
News Network
ISONN (www.isonn.com)
offers free website hosting
to student publications just
as my.hsj.org did. Started as
a host for college journalism
websites, ISONN has reached
out to secondary schools as a
free host for high school sites.
ISONN offers three different
WordPress template themes
for sites. Again, that might
lead to a little sameness of the
sites, but for a free host, the
templates are attractive and
very functional.
WordPress
WordPress (http://wordpress.
com) is the non-profit which
created the modern website,
and it can serve as the host
for your content. WordPress
offers over 200 beautiful tem-
plates for your site. As a completely open forum for content,
it offers fewer controls than do
those sites designed specifically for schools, but if your
school doesn’t suffer from
the censorship many of us
deal with, WordPress may
offer features you can use to
advantage. The site offers
templates that could easily be
used to host both print content
and material created specifically for the web, and works
easily with video content and
other visuals. If censorship is
not an issue at your school,
WordPress may be the free
alternative for you.
engaged in Tinker’s First
Amendment Pep Rally.
“We’re elated to have Tinker
here because her fight represented such a victory for
student expression,” Eden
said. “It’s appropriate that she
comes on the 25th anniversary of Hazelwood, which was
such a dramatic reversal for
student freedom.”
“What is really alarming
about the Hazelwood ruling is
that the courts have continued
to chip away at the rights of
students ever since,” Eden
said. “When you take away the
rights of young people to have
a say, to have an opinion, to
be involved; you are re [ B