The envisaged project *AMazingBook! is meant as an experiment focusing on traditional and less usual ways of storytelling. We aim at encouraging our students to develop the various narratives by means of a common internet platform. While doing so our students will explore their partners’ cultural heritage as well as their own. This project shall start as a blog, to be transformed into a website. The final goal and product, however, will be a traditional medium – a book collecting and presenting all narratives that have unfolded throughout our common project work. The project will integrated into classroom work as well as through several project weeks and work meetings. As the project title pun implies, the different storylines will be swapped several times between the partners. What’s more, they may cross, diversify or interweave now and then – a process we may stimulate as supervising coordinators by means of certain incentives and special tasks. There shall be room for promoting various talents of the students involved, including ICT and Foreign language skills, artwork, imaging & illustrating etc. Regular informal exchange among ordinary European teenagers and teachers will develop along with that.

• Subjects: Art, Cross Curricular, Foreign Languages, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Media Education
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 14 - 17
• Tools to be used: e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Twinspace, Web publishing
• Aims: This project counts on our students’ capacity and natural desire for imaginative work. It may help in extending and exploring... read moreThis project counts on our students’ capacity and natural desire for imaginative work. It may help in extending and exploring their creative ways of shaping a narrative concept over a longer period of time. So in a way it’s meant as a vehicle for exchanging, comparing and linking ideas about our (more or less?) different cultural experience as mirrored in our stories. And it is opening an experimental space for the students’ need to learn how to cope with challenges and difficult or unusual situations in real life – just by taking roles, by joining different communities: As readers, writers, literary characters, team mates, critics, young artists, travellers and – hopefully – friends. A second key intention of our work is to promote various talents of the students involved, including ICT and Foreign language skills, artwork, imaging & illustrating etc. This way all students shall gradually develop a sense of responsibility for their common cause. From the very beginning they shall take interest in the technical aspects of the project but equally in the people, languages and different cultural backgrounds involved. We think that our approach could really work as it merges natural curiosity with the use of ICT and other media and tools in a meaningful context. hide
• Work process: The project work will be done in different evironments: along with classroom activities embedded into our curricula there will be... read moreThe project work will be done in different evironments: along with classroom activities embedded into our curricula there will be occasional periods of extracurricular activity and – of course – several mobilities of students and teachers involved. We’ll have 4 project weeks held at different partner locations – meant for evaluation and motivation as well as for common hands-on experience related not only to our project theme but also to authentic intercultural exchange and partnership in a traditional sense. The whole course of the project will follow a fixed schedule set for two years, including regular points of supervision and evaluation, a progression of tasks, activities and sub-goals on our way to our final product – the actual book. Our motto: *Tools = Products = Tools! - from 08/2009 teacher's blog + 5 national storyblogs - from 03/2010 website *AMazingBook! α to be extended throughout our two-year-project - common writing process following a fixed agenda of several TPs (Turning Points) until 03/2011 - along with that production of illustrations for stories - pre-production of our final book by early 04/2011 - print and official launch of our final book *AMB! β including all stories + various valuable by-products 4 Project weeks: 1. 11/2009 Czech Republic (international teams) = Project Organisation + Selecting Heroes for Stories + Launching Storyblogs 2. 05/2010 Spain (international teams) = Reviewing Writing Progress + Scenic Presentations of Heroes 3. 10/2010 Finland (international teams) = focus on book illustrations + united writing efforts for pushing storylines 4. 04/2011 Ireland (international teams) = pre-launch of final book (mastercopy) + various PR activities using different media + organisation of print and distribution of our final *AMazingBook! β *All partners in charge of producing texts and pics *D in charge of coordinating all activities and website *FIN in charge of layout and glossary *IRL in charge of book print and distribution hide
• Expected results: *website *AMazingBook! α (also via Twinspace) *book *AMazingBook! β

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