Two weeks ago, I was meeting with our school IMC club. I explained how we were going to promote an online literary magazine with the theme of "Pets Personified" for this year and into next year as well. We discussed ideas that included poems, captioned photos, short stories. comic strips and more. Suggestions for story starters were also shared. Thus far, I have heard about tales that included skateboarding horses, swimming cats, and dogs cooking in the kitchen.
The option to establish a blog in conjunction with this extracurricular project would inspire more students to read the works in progress and consider becoming authors as well. They would be able to work together to build a story, even if only a line at a tine.
I am in the process of starting an account with Think.com. I am hopeful to get approval to start with small, well-managed situations where the students could see why safety and informed choices are the best way to go when blogging in this World Wide Web.
[from Bloglines...first posted on April 8th]
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You could have teachers start out by leaving a story of things their pets have done so kids have something to sprout from. Good luck with this. It sounds like fun. Maybe you can even have a contest as to which crazy pet story belongs to which staff member. Mary Beth
Good luck with the Think - let us know how that works out.
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