Benefits of creating an online student newspaper with yourStudentNews.com

Your students will gain real journalism and business management experience.
Optionally integrate with related courses (journalism, literature, photography).
Optionally create a journalism or student newspaper club.
Helps build your student's college resume or college admissions portfolio.
Requires regular interaction with your community.
Provides a valuable service to your homeschool association or support group and your community at-large.
Highlights and celebrates your students' accomplishments.
Students will be part of a larger, national community of young journalists.
Potential exists to operate as a fundraiser or small homebased business with a continuous revenue stream.
Less expensive and easier than traditional printed newspapers - your support group will save a small fortune in printing costs
Our service is all web based and requires no special technical knowledge or ability. If your students can use e-mail, then they can run their own online student newspaper.
The web based application for managing the newspaper is password protected and an adult sponsor will approve all articles before they can be viewed live by the public.
Your online newspaper can optionally be password protected.
Students can participate from anywhere. All they need is an Internet connection.

We are now offering a 45 day FREE trial of yourStudentNews online student newspaper service to homeschoolers - LEARN MORE!

There are many benefits to starting an online homeschool student newspaper for your home school support group or association.

Our original motivation for starting our own local online homeschool student newspaper was to provide our homeschooled high school aged son with another high quality extracurricular activity that he could include on his transcript / portfolio and college admissions applications. The online student newspaper provides more than just a line item: it is an activity that documents itself and can be referred to and reviewed by college admissions officers.

As a homeschooler, you know that there are many, many activities from which to choose. There are some unique benefits to an online school newspaper. First, the written word (journalism) is one of the cornerstones of a free nation. Your students can put their patriotic beliefs into practice and play a small part in shaping the future of our great nation. Your students can play a much larger role in shaping the perception of homeschooling!

One of the remaining debates about homeschooling is the question about socialization. Publishing an online student newspaper will demonstrate just how false this notion is.

Give your students a voice!

Are you a homeschooling parent: A teacher in a teaching cooperative? Take the initiative and start a student newspaper for your homeschool support group.

To get an idea of the possibilities and for inspiration, take a look at our local homeschool student newspaper - if you like an article, send the student some feedback (they love it!).

Check out our extensive list of features and affordable pricing.

You might also be interested in knowing that we are developing an online academic portfolio product. We have searched high and low for a product to help us create and maintain a college admissions portfolio (very important for a homeschooled high school student). We have decided to create our own. If you would be interested in this for your own student, send us an email at contactus@yourstudentnews.com. We may offer the service free for our first few users - if you might be interested, get your name on the list now.

All students involved with yourStudentNews online newspapers are eligible for our annual Silence Dogood Journalism Award!

We offer a variety of additional resources for homeschooling families. We maintain a directory of unique homeschool and educational links - in our directory, you will not find the usual 6 sites that always come up in an Internet search. We are always working to find the hard to find unique homeschool sites and resources. Some examples of what you will find in our directory: A link to the Congressional Awards site; Information on getting your student's academic achievement recognized by the President of the United States; Links to all of the regional Talent Identification Programs (TIP) for gifted students; Links to homeschool family owned businesses (which we encourage every homeschooler to support!). We also have a homeschool t-shirt shops with original designs that we have created - take a look - you will at least get a chuckle out of our pithiness!

Plus, we offer a variety of ways to connect with us!