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Actor Warwick Davis presents MTN Awards
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by hockeyshooter | January 10, 2007 at 06:55 am
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Pupils from St Mary's CofE VA Primary School in Cambridgeshire, England, almost swept the board at this week's Making The News competition awards ceremony, hosted by EasyNet and presented by actor Warwick Davis at the BETT show in London's Olympia. The children from this particular school are so keen on the system, they have even had T-shirts printed for their most regular contributors.
Making The News, a spinoff of the long-term news dissemination project ROSTRA, is in use by hundreds of schools across England, Wales and Scotland for pupils to post stories, articles and interviews on a wide variety of subjects.
Warwick Davis, star of countless movies since the age of 11, including Star Wars - Return of the Jedi and three Harry Potter films, lives near Peterborough and had already visited a number of the schools who make regular use of MTN.
BETT is the world's leading educational information & communications technologies event, bringing together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations and inspirations.
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at 07:13 on January 10th, 2007
Many thanks, Hockey Shooter.
This is a fabulous submission - it's right up our alley and it's a great project.
I'd appreciate it if you could follow this story for future developments, and thanks so much for keeping your eye on the news!
at 07:17 on January 10th, 2007
I've never heard of ROSTRA - can you please fill us in? is this a platform, a technology, process, group of smart people?
Many thanks for this.
Mark Schneider
Actual News Guy
at 07:29 on January 10th, 2007
ROSTRA is a web-based news disemination system written in PHP using a mySQL database. It supports text, still images, video and FlashBlogs (tiny movies recorded using Macromedia's Flash Media software). Stories can be categorised by topic. The archive is fully searchable.
Making The News (MTN) is based on the ROSTRA system uses a hierarchical approach, where stories from a region's schools feed into a regional ROSTRA and the best stories from there feed into a national ROSTRA. All ROSTRA support RSS.
Read more about ROSTRA and the Making The News project.
Chris.