Week 6.5 Record of stories received

I will keep a record of stories received here so that you know your story was received safely. This will be updated as from Monday 8th September 2014 (sorry about the delay)

Stories submitted via a presentation template
(suitable for African Storybook Project consideration)

• Margie Fussel - Sophie the little puppy
• Emmanuel Boadu - Kelvin the ice cream boy
• Agotha Clarke - Ufundu finds a friend
• Shannon Archary - The Little Seed
• Cathy Tansell - Lebo and Lucky
• Nicole Schouela - The girl with the square head
• Chantelle Rose - Robbie's Race
• Maureen Els - The Missing penguin

Stories submitted in a different format
(still need to be added to a presentation template)

• Rejoyce Batyi - Ungrateful child (MP4)
• The Clever Hare by Morithi Maibelo (Microsoft Word)

Week 6.4 Example of a teacher report back, writing with a class in 2013 from Nikki Steyn from Crawford Preparatory School in Pretoria

This is Nikki Steyn from Crawford Preparatory School in Pretoria who sent us some humorous captions for her photos depicting the emotions of an ICT teacher helping her students to prepare their stories!

Nikki says, “I am from Crawford Pretoria. I am the ICT teacher for the grade 0-3’s. Your team had a wonderful idea about this African story book project! I did your 4 week course, but I admit I wasn’t able to read/participate in all the posts. I am still busy with my own story, which will hopefully be completed before the 21^st. However, I got my kids (my grade 2’s and 3’s) to participate in this storywriting challenge. I call it a challenge as that was what it turned out for me J Goodness me, I usually over-estimate what I think my kids can do (up till last year I was a grade 4 teacher) and so my ‘new’ kids are always getting really challenging tasks.

Anyways, I’ve attached some photos of what our journey was like. We ‘acted’ out our feelings and frustrations. The photos are all labeled.


Will start emailing some stories on Tuesday to you. Yup, not everyone finished, but it’s okay, it’s given me some great ideas, and I’ve learned more than an eager grade 3 at a brilliant science expo (my brain is busting!).

Thank you again, your team is really wonderful.”

Our last edit	Great work so far!
Let’s read your story	Ah, your story is pretty good!
Argh…how many tmes must  I say ‘Right click and paste.’	Good work you are almost done!
It’s okay. Just click on the undo button	We love reading stories
Ugh, what was I thinking! This is too challenging for…

Thank you Nikki. Your Grade 2s and 3s wrote such lovely stories. These can all be viewed on the African Storybook wiki: (http://africanstorybookproject.wikispaces.com/Crawford+Preparatory+School%2C+Pretoria) while we wait for the website to be completed.

Week 6.3 Example of a report back from a writer in 2013, Sue Holmes, the librarian at Grantleigh Schools

This is a photo of the lovely Sue Holmes, who is the librarian at Grantleigh Schools.  Sue said when she started the course “I am hoping to learn new skills and am looking forward to doing something creative that I can share with the students."
Later on she wrote, “I really enjoyed writing the story. I think I told you I wrote 2 then not liking them I started a third with help from my family.  I have't been able to illustrate the last story as I could find what I wanted online and don't have time to finish illustrating it myself before the time is up - so I went back to my first story and spent some time adding and revising it. It is not a really a story - more like a poem, but I hope it can still be used. I illustrated it with photos - mostly my own but I did use some others with a creative commons licence. Thank you for the opportunity!”

Sue submitted the most beautiful story entitled ‘On Safari’ in which she added mainly her own photos of wild animals. Do take a look at it here: http://www.youblisher.com/p/723470-On-Safari/

Thank you Sue!