PROJECT: WRITE YOUR STORY THE GIRL WHO SAVED THE

AQUARIUM

URL to the Project:

http://writeyourstory.wikispaces.com/

URL to the story:

http://writeyourstory.wikispaces.com/STORY-4

Picture created by one of the students in the project.

Write your story: The aim of this project is to make students from

different schools (in different countries /states) create a story. The first

class writes the beginning of the story. They draw pictures and they read

their text. When ready, their work is uploaded so that the other schools

can read and listen to it. Then, the next school continues the plot and

then the next, and the next, until all the story has been finished.

Schools involved: The whole project involves 289 classes from 10

different countries. In the story I chose (The Girl Who Saved the

Aquarium) there are five different classes taking part: Borneo, New

Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts and California.

Platform: Wikispaces.

Tool: Voicethread.

Contributions: Each class will be writing ONE group paragraph(s) for the

story (not each student). The first class will write the intro paragraph(s).

Then the next class will read the paragraph(s) and decide how they want

to continue the story. This will continue until the last class on the list

writes the ending and gives the story a title. The paragraph(s) will be

typed onto a Wiki page. Each class will also need to send the 3 pictures

to the Teacher Leader. The pictures should illustrate events in the section

that each class wrote.

There is a deadline for each school who, after finishing their work, should

check the corresponding box to indicate that their work has been done.

Edition: Students from each school get to see in the Wiki the contribution of their peer schools and

so they can contribute to the story. They also use different colours to see who wrote what.

Coordination:

I liked: I think the way the project is presented is clear and very intuitive. Besides it is very well

organized. From the very beginning the deadlines are set.

The fact of having students draw their stories and read them out loud is a great way of

motivating. Not only does this project develop their imagination, it also increases their motivation,

improves their writing, reading, listening and speaking, teaches them how to work in groups and

as a group and gives them the opportunity to know more cultures.

Improvements: I think it would have been interesting to have children from a wider range of

countries. The majority of the schools in this project are from the USA and even if they are from

different states, their culture does not differ much as the school from Borneo does.