Well, let’s play with the idea. Too bad we don’t have same-age students. We can still make a k-12 website for worldwide poetry digital stories. Maybe even incorporate it as one more feature of the 1001 Tales – just create a “1001 Poems” page.

I don’t know. Let’s switch to email about it. clayburell[at]gmail[dot]com

I’d love to be part of something like that with poetry videos.

Check out the 1001 Flat World Tales (http://1001flatworldtales.edublogs.org) for one example of a Hawaii, Seoul, and Denver creative writing project we did on a wiki. It’s ongoing and always open. That blog is the “publication” of student-selected publishable works.

The wiki for the first hs workshop is here (http://burell9english.wikispaces.com), but it’s open for k-12 – self-contained workshops with whatever teachers team up around the world. The wiki might not make sense to you, but there’s a quick Screencast-o-matic overview of the project on the blog (above) on the “FWT history” page.

That’s just one example. I’m open to any ideas you might have – like simply giving a home to student poetry videos from around the world on a wiki or blog.

I teach 8th grade at a Catholic school in Spokane, Washington, USA. I’m not very familiar with the flat classroom concept, but I’d be interested in learning more.

Where do you teach? What grade levels? Maybe we can set up a flat classroom poetry movie wiki….