1001 Flat World Tales: The Future

(Cross-posted from Beyond School)

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:

1. Korea
2. Denver
3. Honolulu
4. Hannibal, MO, USA
5. New Brunswick, Canada
6. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
7. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
8. Pennsylvania
9. Two schools in Australia
10. Shanghai, China
11. Serbia
12. Israel (fingers crossed)
13. 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.)

Workshop 2 Underway

We are off the mark with the second 1001 Tales workshop, which features students from Australia, Serbia and China. We have been held up with various Spring/Easter holidays but our first drafts are now posted and I'm looking forward (with a mixure of excitement and nervousness) to seeing how the students will interact and provide meaningful feedback to one another. My students, from a boys boarding school in regional Australia, are keen to collaborate with people from across the world and I'm hoping that this project will utlise the 1:1 environment we are in (as of Feburary). It's been a bit of a struggle to incorporate this in the midst of an already jam-packed term but providing an opportunity for them to write for a real global audience was too interesting to pass up. I'm taking on the axiom that "learning is messy". Wish us luck.