How to Write a Killer About Page – Amy Lynn Andrews
Great read – Wool!
National Novel Writing Month – November
Some great workshops are being offered to assist you in writing a novel at the State Library – see the library desk for details
VCE students – Study resources
Search: Study skills on the library catalogue for helpful resources
Ask Library staff for study resources; Checkpoints study guides, Insight study guides, Task card quiz and other study guides.
StoryboardThat
This easy to use digital storytelling website allows students to create a storyboard, or cartoon style set of cells.
The template provides backgrounds, characters and text/speech bubbles.
Here is an example of a Storyboard That piece, completed in about 2 mins!!
StoryboardThat – Party in the park
There are also teacher guides and lesson plans, including for these texts:
Online adaptations
There are now many online adaptations or media generated from our favourite classic books.
Here are some examples:
A fun juxtaposition of comments inspired by Emma by Charlotte Bronte
THE SECRET DIARY OF LIZZIE BENNET – a You Tube adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Modern movies also take their inspiration from classic stories:
Ten things I hate about you, the movie, is a modern retelling of The taming of the shrew.
The makers of the film Clueless relocated Jane Austen’s Emma to 1990s Los Angeles
Webpages are a way for authors to connect with their fans:
There may be many new terms in use on these pages – here is a glossary to help you out!
The “Song of fire and ice” domain
Nerdfighters – The domain of John and Hank Green
Vlog brothers – Hank Green You tube channel
I love this post from Inside a dog on Book hangover!
If you are an artist – Deviant art might be a space for you.
Inspiration for this post has come from my online course by the SLV – Shift alt story.
Online storytelling
I am looking at the way students are engaging with stories and storytelling in the online environment.
I will list sites, games and digital media that I have come across. If you are familiar with any of these, please leave a comment this medium, and other online story related content you are involved with.
Some sites I have heard about:
Telltale games – The walking dead
- Based on the comics, tv show by Robert Kirkman.
I would love to hear:
- What mediums you engage with
- In what way you engage: reading, writing, game playing
- Who you think would also enjoy this medium
Thanks!
Mrs. Ferguson
Cowbird – a digital storytelling community
The Cowbird etiquette asks of it’s community:
Be decent, Be humble, Be yourself, Be legal.
This is a digital storytelling community that invites you to share, add, dedicate and love the stories that you and many others are writing and telling.
Authors are invited to write, add audio, photos and other files to stories. Add places, dates and tags to make stories dynamic and current.
You can also ‘sprout’, comment or ‘love’ a story.
An example of a quick story written by me on a Sunday afternoon:
Digital storytelling
A whole new world of digital story telling awaits us…
Try some of these!
Search Thinglink and Cowbird for an example of digital tools on this blog.
Story Sports™ takes the concept of a writing workshop and turns it into a competitive sport.
It’s a little like theatre sports, except that the emphasis is on writing skills. Students compete in quick-fire games that test their creativity, imagination, and story-writing skills to win prizes.
The concept was developed after Brian noticed that students who would not normally express any interest in writing workshops, would participate enthusiastically when the same workshop was presented as a competitive sport.
Happy endings…
An alternative ending to TFIOS…