NewsMakerprovides students an easy, affordable, and fun platform to practice writing, speaking, and presentation skills. Students take on the role of news anchor and producer, creating their own story in 3 easy steps: Write! Read! Publish!

Prices in NZ dollars. Excludes GST (NZ only) and freight
NML01	Newsmaker Single User	115.00
NML20	Newsmaker Classroom Pack (up to 20 users)	799.00
NMLSS150	Newsmaker Small School (<150 pupils)	518.00
NMLMS350	Newsmaker Med School (<350 pupils)	1038.00
NMLS	Newsmaker School License (>350 pupils)	1558.00

NewsMaker is neither grade-level specific nor content-area specific. It is a tool to help students improve their communication skills while mastering content in any subject area.

With NewsMaker, students take on the role of news anchor and producer, creating their own story in 3 easy steps: Write! Read! Publish!

And with NewsMaker, the learning doesn't have to end in the classroom! At home, the whole family can join in creating stories to share with friends and relatives around the world!

NewsMaker allows students to produce impressive news reports in 3 easy steps, using only a web cam and a PC microphone.

	Step 1: Write In the role of 'reporter', the student plans and writes a news story in NewsMaker.
	Step 2: Read The computer monitor then serves as a teleprompter, and the 'news anchor' reads the story aloud for practice, then makes a recording. Built-in face-tracking, blue-screen and other fun video technologies makes it easy to overlay impressive visual effects. Additional effects can be downloaded from the left panel of this website.
	Step 3 : Publish In this final step, the student becomes the 'news producer' and publishes the recorded clip as a single video file to be shared with classmates, teachers, family or friends.

NewsMaker is designed to require minimal technology skills, freeing the student to focus on reading the news story with accurate pronunciation, clear enunciation, and appropriate intonation, and it helps to facilitate self-assessment and peer critiquing strategies too. Click here to download a sample NewsMaker Scoring Rubric

NewsMaker facilitates a classroom environment in which students produce well-organized presentations that clearly and concisely convey concepts and information. NewsMaker provides individual students with immediate feedback for self-assessment of performance. Students frequently choose to rehearse and re-record in order to improve upon fluency, rhythm, pacing, intonation, and expression.

Creating cloze activities in NewsMaker. Teachers may use cloze activities in NewsMaker to improve student writing skills as well as their reading comprehension skills...Read more.