Pre-launch: 1001 Flat World Tales Website: 16 Down, 985 To Go

Really. “Schooliness” retards growth.

Pre-launch: 1001 Flat World Tales Website: 16 Down, 985 To Go

I can’t keep a secret. I promised Chris in Honolulu and Michele in Arapahoe that I wouldn’t announce the launch of the 1001 Flat World Tales website until we did some clean-up. But - wait, wait - oh, heck, I’ll keep my promise. I’ll hold off on announcing the website for a day or two. We need to put the bios of the authors and editors, link to their blogs, upload their podcasts, and otherwise prepare for the launch party.

I’ll just say that the site includes the first 15 or 16 stories from the 130 written in the first high school workshop.

Since our goal really is 1001 student writings, and several new and returning schools are on board for the coming school year (and you’re always invited too), I’m still going to embed this screencast-o-matic tutorial about the wiki workshop itself, and the publication of the winning stories on the soon-to-be-unveiled website. It’s 9 minutes walking and talking you through the idea, the process, the set-up. (If you click on the embed, it will take you to the much larger screencast at my Screencast-o-matic channel):

A caveat: I chose to host the website on Wordpress instead of Edublogs because the image editor was giving me trouble there. I may regret that later, but didn’t have time to wrestle with it. I had to get this monkey off my back before going back to school on Monday!

Update: Wordpress.com is even more restrictive with Java and Flash embeds than Edublogs is. That’s what drives me crazy about Wordpress, and keeps me with Blogger. Anyway, I went back to Edublogs and solved the problem of image editing - a very un-intuitive place to enable the Rich Text Editor hiding in the “My Profile” page.

More later.

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