When talking about wiki I always like to refer colleagues to the Terry The Tennisball Wiki by students of Grade 3-4 in Geelong in a fellow called Mr Pearce’s class. To my mind this wiki is in essence like a mini Choose Your Own Adventure story.
The CYOB format for storytelling is an engaging writing and reading literacy tool at teachers disposal. Students with iPods may be interested in downloading a free version of a story called ‘The Abominable Snowman’ from this website.
You head to the Himalaya in search of the mythical abominable snowman. But when your climbing partner Carlos goes missing, your search takes a very different turn.
* Read by series author and founder R. A. Montgomery
* Original text (116 pages)
* Exciting full color illustrations & sound effects
* Windows & Mac iPod compatible
Hi Paul,
Came across this blog via Judy O’Connell’s Hey Jude. The blog is a nice addition to the blogosphere and the Mac world as well. Congrats. Reading this entry was though was one of those “Hey that’s me moments”. I’m the teacher that experimented with Terry the Tennis Ball, (alas that grade 3-4 has now dispersed though I might try to get some of them involved again). I shall pass on your recognition to those I see over the next few days.
BTW given the Mac focus you may also be interested in back reading over a couple of iPod related blogs we also ran with last year as we “experimented with some iPods in last year’s classroom at http://mrps.edublogs.org/ and http://middlepod.learnerblogs.org/.
John P http://johnp.wordpress.com/