The Knight Times is now available online.
January 18, 2010
Filed under Top Stories
The Knight Times staff decided to take their environmental concerns beyond just recycling each month’s leftover newspapers. With the exception of the welcome-back edition and the senior edition, The Knight Times will now be available exclusively online at www.theknighttimes.com.
Rising printing prices and a desire to be able to cover school news on a more timely basis also contributed to the decision.
“Due to budget restraints, printing a newspaper limited us to publishing once each month. By publishing to our website, we can now publish multiple times each month so that we can cover Spotsylvania High events as they happen,” said Ms. Deborah Collins, co-adviser of the journalism class.
Ms. Kamilah Lawson, the other adviser, feels that a website will reach a wider audience than the staff was able to reach by selling newspapers at lunch and after-school events.
“The new website will include videos, photo slideshows, and polls along with our news and features stories,” Ms. Lawson said.
Ms. Collins explained the printer requirements force them to print a minimum of 2,000 newspapers each month; however, more than half of those papers were being sent to the recycling bins. “We were concerned with the amount of paper that we were wasting each month,” Ms. Collins said.
The Knight Times staff will be publishing new stories and features to the website every two weeks. People who visit the website can sign up to receive e-mails informing them of updates to the website.
The website went live on Monday, January 18, 2010. Feedback can be e-mailed to shs.knighttimes@gmail.com or leave a comment on the site.
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January 27th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
I believe that starting this website is a good idea, but I also think that the subject of requiring teachers and students to recycle the white paper,should be brought up more. Many teachers have their paper recycling boxs covered with papers, have their trash cans over top of them, or they do not have one at all, many also don’t even use it themselves. It would defentily make are school more green! We also should try to get bottle recycling bens into our school. And not just have them on one side if the school, to have many placed in varis parts of the school so students have better opprotunitys to recycle. It may also I think give the school a little extra money for recycling the bottles.
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January 28th, 2010 at 10:00 am
I like this website that was started because it’s pretty neat read some of the subjects here and to know whats going on in the school, if your oblivious. I also liked the one subject about how our school doesn’t turn the air conditioning on or the heater because I find it to be absolutely true. Recycling is a pretty good idea but I think we should advertise it more around the school and maybe anounce it over the announcements because many students probably dont know about this website. Also, I think this website shout be able to be put on the school website so it ca easily be found for students.
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January 28th, 2010 at 10:14 am
I feel like teachers are always trying to go green but never promote it. They don’t ask students to recylce, they waste lots of paper by printing out only one sided tests, and having to make 3 tests per class to prevent studentsto cheat. I think it is a waste of time and paper. But on the plus side I like the lay out of the web site. It’s very neat and easy to read! (:
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January 29th, 2010 at 8:05 am
I agree teachers do need to recycle more often. I only know one teacher that has a recycling bin for bottles and cans. I also only know a few teachers that use their white paper bin. The website is really good,how you set it up and how it is organized. I think that this is way easier to come and read the school newspaper, instead of wasting tons of newspapers that dont get sold. So this is a really new good way to read the newspaper without wasting anything. I will be coming to this website almost every day. Im going to try to everyday, if not every other day.
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January 29th, 2010 at 8:07 am
I’m going to speak the truth. i think people should save energy we need to make the earth green i love the website the teachers and staff should go green the teachers sometimes the teachers get mad because student’s keep leaving there monitors on that’s why i love this site beacuse it’s colorful you have really great things on it…..
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