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=**Incorporating New Technology-Creating a student newspaper online**= Teaching new technology is always a challenge especially when certain practices become routine and successful. One of the goals I set for our newspaper staff was the development of an online presence. Although there has been an online classroom and training website for our staffers, we did not have a "true" news-oriented website.

In Fall 2009, our staff began development to design the architecture of our site; what kind of content did we want to present and how did we want it to appear. In addition, we had to consider how labor intensive maintenance would be and how frequently it would need to be done.

We explored various news site programs (Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress) and it was an exhaustive process, but very interesting and challenging for my staff and myself. In addition, we had to coordinate campus and district resources to figure out the logistics of access, hosting and capacity.

After about six months, we chose an third-party provider to host the site and to provide a software platform with technical support and training. We work with []

Our site was completed and posted near the end of the Spring 2010 semester and is currently a work in progress.