Comments on: Many Voices: A Global Creative Writing Twittory for K-8 Worth Joining

By: Higher Edison: hello twitter verse

Higher Edison: hello twitter verse — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:35:39 +0000

[...] learn by playfully experimenting with language. I learned about Many Voices from Clay Burell’s post Many Voices: A Global Creative Writing Twittory for K-8 Worth Joining. Clay gives a list of reasons to be enthusiastic about Many Voices, a list I’d love to see applied [...]

By: Tod Baker

Tod Baker — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:49:34 +0000

Great questions, Clay. We asked similar questions ourselves when we opened this project on Monday.

I would like to see my students and Kim’s students at ISB discuss how this worked out as a writing experience. We could record and post that discussion.

We’ll let the authors themselves tackle those challenging questions.

Cheers,

Tod

Tod Baker’s last blog post..I Stuck It To The Internet

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:35:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing that one, Tod. Pretty heady feedback.

I still have questions about how it works as a writing exercise, though. Do students and teachers know at what point in the storyline and plot they are? The whole Freytag’s Triangle thing (or whatever it’s called).

If not, how does the story enforce reflection about - and writing of - lines and ideas that propel the story toward a satisfying series of conflicts, complications, and a climax and falling action?

That’s what I don’t get. If it’s open-ended, I wouldn’t myself know how to contribute best to the story.

Input?

By: Tod Baker

Tod Baker — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:25:16 +0000

Clay,

My students reflected on their participation in this project yesterday. Here’s an excerpt of one reflection.

“Today we created a story on Many Voices. I thought it was a really good experience for me. I felt like something in my mind had come out and I stuck it to the Internet. I think it could be a really good way to write a story or make our essays.

I wrote about escaping places. If I do it again, I’m gonna make sure it escapes. So I regret that a bit. I wrote an about an open window and Renaud wrote something about escape too. I felt I was growing and I want to do it again.”

The other reflections haven’t come in yet, but I’m willing to bet that they agree with you. Writing this story was a brilliant experience.

Tod Baker’s last blog post..I Stuck It To The Internet

By: Beyond Global Collaborative "Units," on to Real PLN's: Podcast with Chris Craft | Beyond School

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:06:51 +0000

[...] own enthusiastic post on George Mayo’s “Many Voices” Global Twittory project, and my own lessons [...]

By: Teaching Generation Z » Blog Archive » The ActivBoard Is In!

Teaching Generation Z » Blog Archive » The ActivBoard Is In! — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:04:58 +0000

[...] Burell on Parable 2.0kwhobbes on Parable 2.0Linda on Parable 2.0ken on Comments, Comments, CommentsMany Voices: A Global Creative Writing Twittory for K-8 Worth Joining | Beyond School on Parable 2.0Clay Burell on Parable 2.0Silvia on Parable [...]

By: Langwitches » links for 2008-01-09

Langwitches » links for 2008-01-09 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:38:16 +0000

[...] Many Voices: A Global Creative Writing Twittory for K-8 Worth Joining | Beyond School (tags: global_collaboration twitter elementary_school project-ideas) [...]

By: Trina

Trina — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:31:58 +0000

I love the idea of the Twittory, and I’ve been following stories on implementation in various classrooms. Thinking of giving it a go, myself, with a slightly different application.

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:42:15 +0000

Hi Chris
I think it’s “brilliant” because:
1. It’s low-maintenance. Quick-in, quick-out, guarantees success. KISS. The more labor, the more chances of crashing. I learned this with the 1001 Flat World Tales. My own workshop for that project succeeded, but it took sweating buckets of blood. Other teachers often won’t have the time to invest the labor Chris Watson and I had to invest to keep it afloat.
2. The English teacher in me loves it for how it forces participants to consider the elements of fiction when they craft their single tweet contribution: how do I move the plot at this particular point in the story? How do I choose the best words, characterize best, detail the setting, etc?
3. Engagement: participants have to read the entire story tweet by tweet - close reading at its best, in a weird way - and the knowledge that each tweet is by a different author brings in some evaluative higher-order critical thinking about the quality of each tweet. “Why was tweet #122 so good, but #123 so lame?” “How could #125 miss the opportunity set up in the earlier tweets?” “What a brilliant plot twist tweet # 88 added!” That sort of thing.
4. Exposure to Twitter. How to follow that up with encouraging conscious networking is a question worth pursuing.
5. Sheer fun and creativity.
6. The wiki and the Lulu book publishing.
7. The around-the-world telling of an unbroken narrative, with each chapter representing one location for local flavor within the global mix.
8, 9, 10: fun, fun, fun.
That being said, I am a complete bum for not having made the time to look at the project you did earlier with digital storytelling - was it “Life Round Here?” I clued in momentarily, but life got in the way. Reply with a link?

By: Chris Craft

Chris Craft — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:31:43 +0000

Hey Clay!

Thanks for bringing this into my radar. I’ll look into it soon, I’ve got a sixth grade class that might like to participate…

Just a curious question, would you articulate the reasons behind calling it brilliant?

I’m not saying it’s not, just wanting to hear your reasoning.

Thanks..

Chris Craft

Chris Craft’s last blog post..links for 2008-01-07