It’s Called WA Mash

Sunday, August 24th, 2008
by Antonio Viva

WA Mash stands for Worcester Academy Mashup. It is created and maintained by students taking Creative Writing as a junior or senior English elective with Antonio Viva at Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA. WA Mash is an online, alternative weekly magazine that deals with politics, news, current events, arts and culture, technology, business, fiction and creative thinking. You can find WA Mash on a variety of social media sites. It was created to give students a voice in the world of new media and an opportunity to publish their original work to a global audience. Original content is generated by students and published using a variety of social media tools freely available on the web.

MashTube is WA Mash’s YouTube channel. It plays host to the videos created by WA Mash. The most recent entry is a web series created by Jake Hilbert, Eric Rubino, and Austin Carroll called “Yay! Or Nay!” and features the creators asking members of the WA community their opinions on current events. MashPics, hosted on Flickr is a collection of photographs taken by members of the class from different places around campus and also shows photo-albums with different themes. MicroMash, hosted on Twitter, is the magazine’s microblog where student contributors post about current events and topics of interest.

Think Slate.com or Salon.com for high school.

WA Mash wants to welcome you to this weekly online magazine. Join us in the conversation and help us mash it up a little!

WA Mash: Social Media in the Classroom from Peter Baron on Vimeo.