ELA

=K-12= Read Around the Planet [|http://www.twice.cc/read/]Connecting classrooms with real-time video and audio for literacy activities. This yearly project occurs in February or March.

====**K-5 Collabortive Global writing project. Students work together writing and editing stories. Join us to create stories with students from around the world in grade K-5! http://writeyourstory.wikispaces.com**==== **Monster Exchange Project** [|http://www.monsterexchange.org/] A class to class exchange of descriptive writing and art.

Examples of ways you can use blogs in the classroom. Students can read about different books before picking them, or even write about the book when they are done reading it.
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 * Blog2Learn** adavis.pbworks.com/**Language**-**Arts**-Examples


 * National Writing Month Project:** [|**http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/**]This is a global project centered around the NaNo WriMo Young Writers Program. This project begins in the fall, with teachers being sent the information packets in September. The project starts in November, and lasts one month. The students are given word count guidelines for creating their own novel within a one month period. The website has some great ideas for management and presentation of the project, as well as ideas for how to make this a collaboration amongst students within the class as well as online using the webpage.

I found this great project idea that would work for connection with literature. It asks students to share quotations with each other. This would be a great activity to have students pick out quotations from books and then share the meanings with fellow students, and students from all different areas who have read the same books. []
 * The DJ Project**: [] Use the popular music form - hip hop - to reach students who otherwise may not care for English studies. This is a project that could be adapted in many ways: having students tell personal stories in rhyming raps that make use of various poetic devices, creating responses to literature through original, spoken raps, summarizing chapters in any classroom, or hosting rap battles to determine the greatest hip hop English artist!
 * iQuote Project**

This site is good as well. It gives students a place to sort of publish their writing, and then others can read it and comment. [] (accounts needed to access forum)
 * My Dream World**

**Poetry Wars** [|http://sartkras.edwebhosting.com/tournament/tournament.html] A cross between NCAA and American Idol for Poetry. 64 poems compete in an NCAA bracket format from week to week, using audience comments/discussion and voting to determine a winner. Excellent guidance on writing good comments without getting personal: a student 'must'.

**Six Word Story - Flickr Group** [] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: 12px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">"I'd like you to post a photo with a **Six Word Story** in the **title section** of a Flickr photo. Be as inventive as possible. Have those few words tell the whole tale, and let the picture be its visual interpretation. Just make sure the title of your pic does indeed contain SIX WORDS in English. If it does not, it __will__ be deleted. Also, if it's not a story, but only a headline or description, it may also dissapear. And even if you don't have a photo, share the best **Six Word Story** you can think of. Or, add your**Six Word Story** to another's picture in the group."

A model of this could work well for a creative writing class - students write several drafts of stories, post them on a wiki, and these stories are judged by peers (comments are left on the wiki) using the Six Traits of Writing. The schools involved in this particular project are from Korea, Hawaii, and Colorado. Final stories are posted on a website to share (this one is called the "1001 Flat World Tales" []).
 * Thousand and One Flat World Tales Project http://burell9english.wikispaces.com/**