Kids sharing writing - writer's club - Discussions

The vision of Castlemaine North PS’s use of ICT is to link students within, across and beyond schools. Our success in the latter two has been documented in the media (http://www.thenorthschool.com/?page_id=277) and has happened largely through our hosting of a social blogging platform called Buddypress.

To build upon our work with social blogging and connecting kids across schools, we are currently inviting students from around the world with an interest in writing to join our Writer’s Club, http://thenorthschool.com/writersclub . This site is for students who are passionate about any sort of writing, and would like to share their writing with a wider audience. It may be a site for your strongest writers to gain exposure for their writing and be exposed to the writing of other budding authors in schools around the world.

Participating students will receive a blog to share their work. There is no cost to do this and no advertising appears on our site.

If you are interested in providing your students with an opportunity to share their writing, please contact us at writersclub@thenorthschool.com .

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Rob Sbaglia May 16, 2012 at 6:15am

We're now up to over 600 writers in 30 schools across 11 countries. We still have room for more!
Rob Sbaglia November 17, 2011 at 1:25pm

We're up to four countries now on four continents. If you'd like your students to have an instant global audience for their writing, reply to this or email me at writersclub@thenorthschool.com .
Genevieve November 6, 2011 at 12:05pm

Hello Rob. I teach first and second graders at an international school in Taiwan. I have some pretty great writers, even at age 7. I love this idea and would like to get them involved in some kind of blogging project, but I'm not sure if your platform is "age appropriate" since your students are 10-12. What are your thoughts?
- Rob Sbaglia > Genevieve November 6, 2011 at 2:21pm
  
  Hi Genevieve,
  
  If you believe that there is benefit to your students in sharing their writing, I'm happy to create blogs for any of your kids. It only takes a few moments to set one up, so you could give it a try and see how it goes. Have a look around our site, http://thenorthschool.com/writersclub , and if you think it would be appropriate, just email me a list of kids you would like to have a blog on our site at writersclub@thenorthschool.com . If you need any more information or advice, feel free to email me at the same address.
  
  We'd love to have you guys on board!
  
  Cheers,
  
  Rob.
Rob Sbaglia October 12, 2011 at 8:55pm

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share an update - we now have a school in Pakistan contributing to the Writers' Club, so we are now an international site! If you're interested in checking it out, go to http://thenorthschool.com/writersclub , and if you're interested in joining us, drop us a line at writersclub@thenorthschool.com
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Lucy Gray June 15, 2011 at 5:25pm

Hi Rob -

I love the ideas you've posted here over time and this looks like a great project. I'm working with a school this week that might be interested in participating. What are the ages of your students?

Lucy Gray
- Rob Sbaglia > Lucy Gray June 15, 2011 at 6:32pm
  
  Hi Lucy,
  
  Thanks for the positive feedback! Our students are between the ages of ten and twelve, although the students participating in this site tend to have more advanced writing skills, so if the students you have in mind are slightly older than this, it won't be a problem.
  
  Cheers,
  
  Rob.

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