1001 Flat World Tales: The Future (and Hello, Kazakhstan and Israel!)

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1001 Flat World Tales: The Future (and Hello, Kazakhstan and Israel!)

I’ve been wishing aloud for some time that more non-Anglo countries would join the 1001 Flat World Tales project. So when Hagit from Israel (via my membership in ePals) and another teacher soon to begin work in Kazakhstan expressed interest in joining the project, you can imagine how happy that made me.

That brings the current list of participants to:

Korea
Denver
Honolulu
Hannibal, MO, USA
New Brunswick, Canada
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Pennsylvania
Two schools in Australia
Shanghai, China
Serbia
Israel (fingers crossed)
Kazakhstan (ditto)

Imagine the ‘07-’08 mix for this project. We can all change partners.

But where is the Arab world? The African? The Latin American? The West European?

Patience. This project is only two and a half months old.

(And now is a good time to throw your hat in for next year. Sign up at the 1001Teachers wiki, and we’ll take it from there.)

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Written by Clay Burell

April 3rd, 2007 at 4:35 pm

Posted in digital storytelling, school reform, writing

Tagged with 1001 Flat World Tales, 1001flatworldtales, lessons, literacy, student 2.0, teaching, web 2.0/ read-write web, wiki

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I will be in touch when I get to Kazakhstan and see what the students are like, if they are technologically able to deal with the concept of wikis.

It also depends on the school and how progressive they are.

Fingers crossed indeed.

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lifelongreader

28 Apr 07 at 10:35 am