Welcome to the Write On Project, 2010! Write On is a collaborative writing project involving five classes of third, fourth, and fifth grade students around the United States. This project was created by Ann Carnevale, Instructional Technology Specialist in Plainville, CT.  In Write On five classes collaborate to write and illustrate a story. The purpose of this story is to expand writing skills while utilizing 21st Century Learning Tools for communication and collaboration. This activity will also allow for an exploration of regions as students track the location and regional information of participating schools.

Here's how it works… Four classes will be selected to participate in the project, along with the fourth graders from Wheeler Elementary School in Plainville, CT.  A schedule will be developed and posted for each participating teacher. The lead fourth grade classes from Plainville will write the opening paragraphs in the Wiki to begin the story.  Students will create a picture (computer generated, or digital image of hand drawn picture) to illustrate their paragraphs.  One picture per paragraph will be chosen for inclusion in the Wiki, and uploaded. The next class will have two weeks to post one more paragraph and a picture. This will continue until all classes have added their paragraph and picture. 

This year we were fortunate enough to have more than four classes request to join our project, so we have two groups each writing a story. That means we'll have two collaborative stories when we are finished!

Along with writing the stories, each class has a Wiki page to share information about their city/town, state, and region.  Plainville fourth graders spend much of the school year studying regions of the United States and biomes. The information shared by other classes will help them in their studies.

The Instructional Technology Specialist from Plainville, Ann Carnevale, will be available by email (carnevalea@plainvilleschools.org), Skype, and telephone to assist all participating classes with any questions regarding the use of the Wiki.