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Welcome to our Collaborative Short Story Writing Circle |
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We - the people with big smiles on the left that is - are the 2006/7 grade 2 class at IPS or International Programs School in al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. One of our projects this year involved working collaboratively with our peers in Australia and The United States to write five fantastic short stories.
The way it worked was each of us (of group) wrote a part of a story and emailed it to the next school. They then added their part and sent it to the next school who added their part to it. You get the idea. It all happened via email by the way.
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Click on the flag to go to the participating school's website |
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The stories we wrote were Aliff The Camel, Max The Camel, Speedy's Big Vacation, The Hot Camel and The Saudi Arabian Camel.
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The nitty gritty details of how the children went about this project is available here. |
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This whole collaborative story idea came about when I (the current teacher of the smiley people above) was in teacher's college in New Zealand.
The following two story circles ran concurently in 2004. They were written by primary school children from eight schools in five countries. No mean feat. The first story was written by children from schools in
Canada, Germany, Poland and New Zealand. The other story was written by two Canadian schools (one each from Sasketchewan and Nova Scotia), one from New Zealand and another from Swaziland.
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As you might have guessed by the obvious or not so obvious theme of this site, my pet subjects are Social Studies and Language Arts (more specifically creative writing). Please drop me an email and let me know what you think of the site and the story circle idea. |
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A little bit about me the teacher behind this project. Who am I? Why am I doing this? I am currently the grade 2 homeroom teacher at The International Programs School in al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. After training as a teacher in New Zealand I taught in Oman and Gaza (yes the Gaza that is always in the news). To find out a little more, view my resume/cv here.
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Heard of Epals? This is the site that helped me contact teachers all over the planet. |
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