Here we go again with another exciting round of this global student writing workshop!
The 1001 Flat World Tales project was initiated by Clay Burell in Korea over three years ago and has been going strong ever since. No matter what grade level you’re working with, this is a great, easy to implement, collaborative writing project that students love!
This year I am working with Kim Cofino to coordinate the Elementary School section and I am joining with Ann Oro to coordinate the Middle School section.We are looking for someone to take on the high school workshop if you might be interested.
As Kim writes on her blog…
We are looking for classrooms at all levels to participate in this writing workshop. The project will last about a month and we’ll set up small grade-level based groups to create collaborative groups for our peer editing process (following the planning process we started last year). If the suggested time frame doesn’t work for you, feel free to start your own workshop later or earlier in the year – our goal is to bring together teachers that would like to embed collaborative writing and authentic audience into their classroom experiences.
As part of the project, students will:
- experience writing for an authentic audience
- work collaboratively with peer reviewers around the world
- follow the writing process to build an understanding of your selected style of writing
- create and embed multimedia elements to bring a story to life
- understand how to connect information through hyperlinks
- utilize a wiki for writing, editing, forum discussion, and revision history
Here in New Brunswick, I’ll be working with Diane MacLeod, a Grade 4 teacher at Keswick Ridge School, in the elementary workshop.
We would absolutely love to have you join this project with your class! Fill out the online form and you’re in! All materials, resources, rubrics and related information can be found on the wiki. Feel free to leave questions here or on the discussion tab of the wiki.
Tags : 1001 Tales, 1001flatworldtales, collaboration, Elementary School, ES 1001 Flat World Tales, es1001flatworldtales
Do you want to write a brief article on our blog, http://www.thewritingteacher.org about this? We can post it.
I’ve gotten really excited about this project and shared it with the Chair of our Upper School English Dept. She has 10-15 students who are really interested in doing something like this beyond their regular classroom.
That was before I learned there isn’t any coordinator for the HS division.
I’ll be happy to get involved to help put that level together if there are others who have students at the HS level who want to collaborate