Feuille de choux
do•doc as a layout tool for writing and making a collaborative newspaper.
A series of three week-long workshops with different primary school classes in the Drôme (France). The theme: making a newspaper from A to Z with do•doc, in which pupils talk to us about the environment.
These workshops were run with the association Désert Numérique and video artist Sarah Brown.
Over three week-long workshops held during school time between April and June 2018, the children make their own newspaper, on paper and on the Internet. Together they decide on the editorial content and use playful, artistic, technical and digital means to create their articles, lay them out, publish them and finally share them.
The Feuille de choux project aims to introduce children to journalism: observing, gathering information, making editorial choices together, summarizing, creating artwork… The children become budding journalists and create three issues of a shared newspaper that brings together the work of the three classes: a newspaper about the environment, made by children for children.
On the one hand, this project aims to raise pupils’ awareness of the media and teach them about it. On the other, the newspaper’s theme, the environment, leads them to ask questions and think about today’s environmental issues. The topic is offered to the children as a starting point for collective reflection and investigation, which they then share with those around them through this printed newspaper.
The videos below show what happened behind the scenes of Feuille de Choux. They were made by Sarah Brown during the workshops and with the children:
The videos for issues 1 and 2 are also online: https://vimeo.com/267272079 and https://vimeo.com/271145070.
Credits
Feuille de Choux is an arts and digital education project run by the association Désert Numérique in 2018, carried out with the single-class primary schools of Cobonne and Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert (Drôme), approved by the French Ministry of Education and supported by the Fondation de France, the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the municipalities of the two villages involved.
For more information: http://desertnumerique.net/choux/
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