| Web Site Story | Complete WebSite Story product |
WSS is a model for creative writing and can be used both in the students’ mother tongue and in foreign language learning. The concept will make use of a feature in the TELSI platform, which allows the project coordinator to give editing rights to a particular on-line document to different users at different times.
Inter-cultural competence has become an important issue in foreign language learning and in order to stress that it is no longer enough to know what to say, but also to know how to put your utterances into a culturally appropriate context the "stories" will focus on intercultural issues.
One group (in Country A) is presented with the initial sentence of a "story" and is asked to complete the first chapter. After a certain deadline, Country A is denied access to the document and a new group (in Country B) is asked to continue the "story". Different "stories" can be under preparation in the same Internet environment at the same time, each group writing a chapter of each of the "stories" as the process evolves. The WebSiteStory model will be tested both in English and in multilingual activities involving the use of languages all participants can understand to a greater or lesser degree.
Spring 2002
Five classes from five different countries are going to create five different stories together.
The participating countries are: Denmark, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden. Norway will start in week 6 (February 4-9) and the other four countries in week 8 (February 18-23).
You will all have to write the first chapter to one of the stories. When you have finished your chapter you pass it on to the next country. You will then receive a new story and write chapter two, etc.
| Chapter one by | ||
| 1 | A Love Story | LT |
| 2 | An autobiography | DK |
| 3 | A Detective Story | NO |
| 4 | A Soap Opera | SE |
| 5 | A Travel Book | PT |
For details about the rota see calendar.
A picture or introductory lines will help you start the story.
You will be able to follow "your" story on its way to see what has happened to it. We’ll all work in a web-based environment called TELSI and you’ll get usernames and passwords from your teacher. Apart from being creative in writing the stories, this is also a very good chance to become familiar with working in a web-based environment. You’ll learn a lot of English both spoken and written. You’ll get to know students from other countries.