From ISIS to climate change and migration, today’s news clearly is global. Come and hear student correspondents from Indonesia, Korea, France and California describe stories they’ve covered for GSS, including #ParisAttacks, endangered orangutans in Bali, Islamophobia in the U.S., school lunch around the world, and Korean pop culture.

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Hello. I’m Beatrice Motamedi, executive director of Global Student Square. I’m here today with some of my student correspondents from around the world to talk to you about GSS and a new platform for student journalism. I
launched GSS last year as a Knight Fellow at Stanford. Prior to that I was a teacher and adviser for 10 years in public and private high schools. I loved helping students cover the news in our communities but like many of my students
I wanted something more, a way to discuss and speak out about things happening in the world. GSS was the result. Here’s a short video I did at Stanford to talk about our vision and what we hope to accomplish.

2. JSK video
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1.24 minutes

3. BEATRICE: our mission

4. unique
• no classroom, no paper - Google tools, Skype, hangouts,
WhatsApp = digital first and only
• no production days - create, post, share ASAP
• credit, but no ownership - Creative Commons 4.0
• website < the shareable link, social media campaigns
• less hierarchy - everyone’s a correspondent
• students connect directly with students (less filtering)
BEATRICE: What we mean by ‘unique’

5. @GSSVoices
Now I want to introduce our student correspondents. Each will have 5-7 minutes to talk about their work and why they’re participating in GSS. Please tweet your questions to @GSSVoices and we’ll answer them at the end. And if
you’d like to join our network, please come find one of us or email me at beatrice@globalstudentsquare.org.

6. September: First Day
Celine Lopez, Stagg High School, Stockton, California: In September, we had “First Day,” a look at school as it begins in different parts of the world. GSS had stories from Brazil, Pakistan,
Stockton and Oakland.

7. CELINE

8. CELINE

9. #SOTU: coordinating/social media
CELINE: Screenshot of students from Stagg High School working as a TweetDeck team to manage the GSS and Stagg twitterfeeds during President Obama’s final State of the Union address on Jan. 12, 2016.

10. What’s on your plate? A global take on school lunch
CELINE talks about Stagg’s upcoming package on lunch around the world, and how what’s on your plate says a lot about your income, culture and community.

11. First-ever Presidents Cup in Songdo
Yoobin Cho, Haeji Kim and Claudia Huh, Chadwick International School, Songdo, South Korea: The first-ever Presidents Cup in Asia took place in October in Songdo. Students participated in a one-day GSS workshop and then went
out to cover it as credentialed media. Photo by Haeji - her first and it was awesome!

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CHADWICK: Students reported on tournament play, did man-and-woman on the street interviews with residents and law enforcement, created infographics and did opinion pieces on where charity proceeds go and why women
should be allowed in the tournament.

13. Korea: Borders
Next Stop: Pyongyang
Yoobin and Meric on “the story behind the story” of the North-South Korea border (50 miles from school). Student Kiran Divedi traveled there during the annual North-South family reunion and found a new train station that had been
opened just four days before.

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Haeji and Jennifer show their video on the upcoming K-pop package, edited by Sarah Choi and Daniel Kim.

15. Editorial: “We will report” plus Sloane's video here
#ParisAttacks
Daphne and Sloane Valen and Jonah Zigman of the American School of Paris: We covered the story using WhatsApp and Twitter on the night of the attacks plus photo, Go Pro/video and stories during the days afterward.

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Jonah: How I organized and executed on this awesome idea

17. 1. Monitor relevant media (Le Monde,
Le Figaro, France 24, BBC, etc.)
2. Post the headline/info to WhatsApp
group in the form of a tweet
3. Ask Beatrice or Thibault to
read/edit the tweet
4. Wait for green light
5. Tweet to @ASPire and @GSSVoices
6. Repeat as new information comes
Daphne, Sloane and Jonah: How we used WhatsApp to write, edit and approve tweets prior to sending. And the tweets we did.

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November: #ParisAttacks
listen to Elle
Elle O’Brien, Green School of Bali, Indonesia: We did a two-hour GSS Editors’ Chat on WhatsApp, led by students in Paris. Paris students texted and did voice memos about what happened; we were able to share fears, get
information and ask questions. Ultimately, we decided to come to COP21!

19. December: Covering Climate Change
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Green School,
Bali
student-produced logo
for COP21 package
Elle and Jonah: In December we covered climate change, including the COP-21 summit in Paris. What Paris was like then and how the package came together.

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BEATRICE: Our of our newest contributors, Hannah Shraim of Northwest High School in Germantown, Maryland.

21. #IStandWithMuslims
Instagram: globalstudentsquare
Twitter: @GSSVoices
BEATRICE: Hannah and Illinois student Alexandra Hennessy of York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois are doing an Instagram campaign called #IStand4Muslims. Alex is flying out to cover the upcoming April 25 “Muslim Day at the
Capitol” in Sacramento. If you want to help, email Alex! alexandrahenn@gmail.com

22. Lauren Fritschi, Daniel Pearl Magnet High School, Los Angeles: Hi! I’m from Daniel Pearl Magnet H.S. here in LA and I’m a GSS cartoonist. We continue to cover breaking news in the cities where we have students, sometimes within
minutes or hours. Including the Brussels bombings.

23. Lauren: Here is the cartoon I did the night of the Brussels bombings. This is a representation of how people in Brussels are mourning after the recent attacks. The man, colored with the colors of the Brussels flag, is seen crying in a
desolate airport waiting lounge. Many people in Brussels feel isolated, depressed and shocked, so this illustration may serve as a reminder for others to offer their support and care.

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Lisa Shen, Walnut High School, east Los Angeles: And I’m Lisa Shen, from Walnut High School, where I run a political journal called Inksight and also work with GSS. I used a tool called Timeline JS to put this video timeline together
using a Google spreadsheet.

25. Lisa: Stories I do for Global Student Square get republished on my political blog. Vice versa also can happen. Cross-publishing gives me more readers and viewers. As long as we both give credit, it’s okay.

26. Lauren and Lisa: Our next project is political “baseball cards” about names and issues in the news that millennials might not recognize. Gus D’Angelo, a cartoonist who has worked for the NY Times and Washington Post, will be our
mentor. Lisa will research and Lauren will draw. Possible examples (clockwise from left): “Sheriff Joe” Arpaio (with undocumented inmates required to wear striped uniforms); former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who oversaw the
bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War (and was criticized by Bernie Sanders). Got an idea for a card? Email us!

27. What does a Student Webmaster do?
● focus on support:
○ find solutions in
other plugins,
applications, etc.
○ troubleshoot
using
skills/knowledge
that journalists
might not have
○ “educated
googling”
● back ups
Xavi Boluna, Sequoia High School, Redwood City, California: Hi, my name is Xavi Boluna and I’m the student webmaster of Global Student Square. I think that my role in GSS is different than how most might expect considering my background in journalism, which
allows for my position to extend past the average webmaster’s. While most webmasters would focus on backups and website maintenance, I will often offer specific support for different projects. My experience in journalism helps me understand what a journalist
might need and respond with plugins, applications and other tools. On top of that, my knowledge of markup and stylesheet languages allows me to effectively work with tasks that are outside other's’ skillsets. When all else fails, I think my last and greatest tool is
“educated googling.” I’m a self-taught programmer and the knowledge of what to look for comes in handy.

28. Create with code
One recent example comes from our welcome page. For some time, our welcome page’s posts varied greatly in length, blocking out some sections below others. Our website uses Visual Composer but its flexibility is limited by the
developers’ customization options. For me, the challenge lay in independently modifying three different posts’ lengths. A journalist might tackle this with less efficiency, but my vague recollection of Document Object Model structure
helped me to Google the right questions and eventually reach the right information.

29. AND FINALLY FROM BEATRICE: Some of the stories we might cover next.

30. Follow us @GSSVoices
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beatrice@globalstudentsquare.org
EVERYBODY: Questions? Sign up for our mailing list (on our website), Join the Square by submitting a story idea on our homepage, talk to one of our student editors or email Beatrice at beatrice@globalstudentsquare.org. Thanks for
coming!