With an increased access to and application of technology to classwork and real world scenarios, TechBoston Academy students are empowered to express themselves through a variety of digital media both in and out of the classroom. Digital cameras, web design software, and video cameras are among the many tools TBA students can use to explore issues and ideas important to them.

With the ever-increasing attention paid to the media in today's society, teens are especially influenced by the messages targeted at them. As a part of their learning experience at TechBoston Academy, students are encouraged to create their own messages and stories, report and reflect on school, community, and global issues, and share their personal experiences through digital imagery.

Student Work & Voice :

The first issue of the Techboston Academy school newspaper, The Messenger@TechBoston Academy, was built by a staff of eighteen sophomores. The students used digital cameras, web design software, and Adobe Photoshop to develop an online version of the articles they wrote in their English class. Topics range from technology and entertainment, to after school activities and editorials.

Check out what each department of editors, webmasters, digital photographers and managers created :

• Issue #01 : January, 2004
• Issue #02 : April, 2004

A staff of selected students continue to develop ongoing editions of the newspaper using a web tool provided by a high school newspaper Web hosting service from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The Messenger@TechBoston Academy has been submitted into the national database of high school newspapers at www.highschooljournalism.org,
and features a creative writing and personal art gallery section, called "Invision."

Click here for the second issue of The Messenger@TechBoston Academy!

Check back here for future editions!