TweenTribune

TweenTribune is a website with news that is customized for "tweens" (children who are not quite teens) and teens.


 * Helpful Links**

[|TweenTribune - "About Us"]

[|TweenTribune - "What Teachers Are Saying About TweenTribune"]

[|TweenTribune - Home for Tweens]

[|TweenTribune - Home for Teens]

[|TweenTribune - Example Lesson Plans]


 * SWOT Analysis**


 * (a) Strengths**
 * ** Updated daily **
 * Contains news relative to readers' ages
 * Easy access for teachers
 * Free
 * Website works with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act


 * (b) Weaknesses**
 * Advertising on site
 * Upon registering, I received an email saying I'd have to wait for my login information
 * Typos and grammatical errors in posts from students


 * (c) Opportunities**
 * Teachers can share ideas with one another
 * Can be customized for teachers' classes
 * Students can comment on stories
 * Place for teacher assessment of comments


 * (d) Threats**
 * Site has third-party advertisements
 * Advertising companies collect information about users likes/dislikes to further advertise to users


 * Ideas for the Classroom**


 * [|TweenTribune - Example Lesson Plans] **

Teachers can customize a page for their class, and then build an assignment where students have to post their thoughts on at least 10 different articles. Teachers can then find the posts made by each individual student and print them out as a report. Teachers could grade on amount of effort put in to the posts, grammar, while also being aware of any cyber bullying present.

Another way this site could be used is that students would have to find a number of relevant articles to a certain subject. If the subject being covered in class is politics, then students would have to find articles relating to this subject.