"One Thing" for Wed. Oct. 30

The 100 Word Challenge, (found HERE) is a place that features "creative writing for young people". Writing challenges are provided with a 100 word limit and a one week deadline. Typically, it's a short written 'writing prompt' that is given, but we found one (the deadline had already passed) but it intrigued us so we wrote on this one:

The idea of the site is that a whole bunch (over 700 students on this topic, anyway) can write about the topic, submit their work (via their blog) and then read the work of others and make comments. Our class discussed how to make positive comments and tried this out today. It was neat to see where the students doing this (many are in the UK) are writing, commenting and posting from.

The next step for us is to get our class blog going and then we are going to submit some of our work for real. Why? Well, it has been determined that while the average student will probably turn in work of a "pretty good" quality for their teacher, any work that is published online and has an audience (whether it's anonymous children from elsewhere on the globe or their parent or a friend from their soccer team) it's likely that will mean that it's going to be of a "higher" quality. And ultimately that's what we're looking for...