No Limit was formed in 2002 as a collaboration between Freinetskolan Bild & Form, in central Gothenburg and Emmahuset in the suburb Hammarkullen. The vision was to break invisible limits between the centre of the city and the suburbs, between municipal and detached schools and between youths with different ethnical background. Since 2003 Freinetskolan Bild & Form is the only one producing No Limit, but we have more cooperators and readers than ever before.
This year we have established a communication with Blanca Luz Espinosa, an English teacher at Centro Freinet Prometeo, in Puebla, Mexico. Aswell with CristinaVaz-Duarte. She is a French teacher at São Paolo University, Brazil. We also working on a communication with a contact in Dakar (Senegal), in Dakka (Bangladesh) and in Bethlehem (Israel-Palestine).
Our goal is to make No Limit a concern for a number of schools all over the globe.
Through No Limit you would be able to train foreign languages on a natural basis – both at school, and in the spare time. You should have the possibility to get to know about other cultures, and tell others about your own. If you have the possibility to travel abroad with your parents, then No Limit is the obvious place for Bild & Form’s pupils presentations. You can tell by looking at all the great reports in our paper from, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Australia and USA. Yes, we have actually covered all continents during the five years during the existence of this paper.
We endeavour for making No Limit exiting, with as much pictures as possible, as befits a school concentrated on art and design. We also wants to stimulate the free debate, only restricted by the constitutional protected freedom of speech. We want to allow our readers to advertise for free and we allow companies and associations that we are attached to, to advertise free or for a low price in the paper.
The editorial work is, in the first place, done by 15-20 students in the ages of 12-16 years, that has chosen journalistic as their engrossment in Tuesday afternoons. The editors produces most of the material in the net based paper and at the same time the 32 pages long paper based edition. That is released every semester and is everything but a directly printed version of the net based one. Sometimes the articles are first published in the net based paper – sometimes it is the other way around.
The funny thing with the Internet paper is that a lot of other pupils in the school is writing with help from their teachers. Suddenly a picture showing dressed up junior-level teachers is on the first place in the paper. A lot of students and teachers at the school has rights to publish articles in the paper. The editorial staff is quickly correcting any faults in the published material.
And the most exciting thing right now is that we have colleagues from other countries that is publishing articles in the paper, while we in Sweden is asleep. It is for example seven ours time difference between Sweden and Mexico.
Feel free to send in a letter to the editors! or comment any article. Or participate in our votings.
David Almlöf – Legally responsible publisher
Translated by Hugo Backmyr and Oscar Aspholm
