Internet magazine hot project

STUDENTS AT a” North
Vancouver alternative school
have discovered the Internet is
gocd for business.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

Windsor House students pub-
lish fafinity, an’ eight-page maga-
zine that is also available at
hup://www.bendtech.com on: the
Internet,

The Internet adds an intriguing
touch for students interested in
new’ technology, It has also been
instrumental in getting new writers
to produce the goods.

Before students knew their
prose would be available world-
wide on the computer network,
getting material for Infinity from
students was like pulling teeth,
said parent Teri Rodgers.

Rodgers, who sponsors the stu-
dents’ cfforts to produce the maga-
zine at the parent-participation
school, said material is pouring in
for the second issue.

“Now that’ people heard it is
going worldwide they ‘all. want to
put in their articles,” said 12-year-
old editor Sasha Wiley.

“A lot of people are also excited
about seeing it in print and the fact
that it is going worldwide just
added to it,” she said.

Sasha points to the magazine as
an educational opportunity, saying
she learned spelling, grammar, and
computer literacy while helping to
produce the magazine.

.. Infinity . writers - said. they

enjoyed seeing their words immor-.’

talized both on the page and the
computer sereen,

Articles in the first issue cover a
wide variety of subjects from plan-
ning a horse vacation to ice cream
vending.

Said 14-year-old Daniel Jordi:
“Eo like writing controversial arti-
cles."

His page one stary picks the
perfect topic for controversy —
political correctness.

“If you were a really short per-
son, like 3°3", would you want to
be called short or vertically chai-
lenged?" asks the budding colum-
nist.

“I like the original idea but |

think it is getting totally out of

hand,” he writes about a concept
that has generated lots of ink
recently.

Not-so-politically-correct arti-
cles include Vanessa Wiley’s piece
about what she calls abuses heaped
upon our society by whining coun-
try musicians.

“Country singers’ should be
quarantined or maybe institution-
alized,” she writes.

Judging by the enthusiasm

shown by the magazine’s young’

staff, Rodgers terms the magazine
a success.

“It’s worked out better than J
ever thought it would,” she said.

Rodgers. said | 25-year-old
Windsor House relies heavily on
parent participation to operate the
school, which is part of the. North
Vancouver school district.

Rodgers’ brainstorming session
with Bend Technologies, which
operates the. web site British

“Columbia Virtually Yours, led to

Infinity's global debut on the
Internet, said Rodgers.

in return, Bend Technologies’
site will hopefully also attract
members of a younger audience,
she said. -

Although Rodgers oversces the
magazine, she said students -them-
selves decide what articles, poems
and other possible features make
the cut.

“It’s their project and their
magazine und they determine what
goes in it,” she said.

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