10 - Wednesday, June 20, 1990 - North Shore News

Hillside paper
makes headlines

‘HEADLINER’ TAKES 1ST
PRIZE IN NAT’L CONTEST

HILLSIDE Middle School’s stu-
dent newspaper recently won a
national school newspaper award.

The Hiliside Headliner won first
prize in the elementary level of the
1989 Commodore School News-
Paper contest, sponsored by
Computers in Education maga-
zine.

As a result of the newspaper’s
win, Hillside, a West Vancouver
school, won an Amiga 2000 com-
puter, complete with 20 megabyte
hard disk drive and color monitor.

In addition to the contest
criteria, the judges noted that the
Hillside Headliner made good use
of grids for column widths and
lengths, crisp and clear
photographic reproduction and
excelient use of rules and lines.

Ron Popoff, teacher adviser to
the Hillside Headliner, said com-
puters have played an increasingly
important role in schools each

ear.

“Nothing grabs the attention of
a student computer user like the
prospect of producing professional
looking banners, signs, invita-
tions, reports, class projects and
so on,"’ said Popoff. ‘‘At
Hillside, students and teachers
have found working with printing,
publishing programs and the
Maclntosh computer to be addic-
tive and captivating.

“The advent of laser writer
printers and desktop publishing

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programs made it possible to pro-
duce sophisticated layouts fairly
easily. We saw the potential of the
new technology and decided to use
it to produce a school newspaper
and English journal."

He added that desktop
publishing ‘‘became a springboard
for this exciting venture’’ because
it allows teachers and students the
freedom to write, design and draw
while keeping total control over
the final product.

Popoff said the first step in
producing the newspaper was the
writing and gathering of stories,
poems, editorials and articles from
English classes, student reporters
and club representatives from
many different students
throughout the school.

The copy was composed and
transferred to the computer via a
word processor and run through a
spelling checker.

The visuals used in the newspa-
per were created by the students in
a computer art program or found
in commercially produced art.
Some art work was hand drawn
and scanned into the computer
with a flat-bed scanner.

“Throughout the two years of
Hillside’s history as a middle
school, students and teachers have
learned a tremendous amount
about publishing,” said Popoff.
“Improvements could be seen as
each issue went to press.””

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