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If I were a giant is a web based creative writing and artwork project designed for primary aged children or young people with special educational needs. The project aims to encourage children to write imaginative stories or produce artwork around the theme of giants and to share those stories and pictures with other children around the world.
For teachers

USING THE FORM
The story writing form has been designed to be child friendly. Children can write and send stories for publication simply by working through the form. In addition to their story, they also need to enter their name, age, school and country into the boxes provided. Please remind children about keeping safe on the web and to use only their first names on the form. Stories can be written directly into the form while online or, as many schools have done, written using a word processor such as Clicker 4 or MS Word and then cut and pasted into the form.

EXTRA HELP
Younger children may find it difficult to organise their thoughts into a story. You may want to suggest ideas to spark of their imagination. What would you wear? What would you eat? Where would you live? To help with this we have produced a simple writing frame which you can download. The writing frame can be printed or used with a word processor. Stories created using the frame can be typed or cut and pasted into the online form or sent as an attachment to an email.


Writing Frames and Clicker 4 Grids
Clicker 4 Grids
18th July 2003

Thank you to the Learning Grids team at Cricksoft for the Clicker 4 grids

SENDING YOUR STORIES AND ARTWORK
Once the online story form is completed, it can be sent simply by clicking the computer 'send' icon. Will will acknowledge receipt of your story by displaying a 'thank you' page.

Stories can also be sent using the file transfer form. These can either be written (or copied) directly into a word processor file. We can accept files from Clicker 4, WWS200, MS Word, MS Publisher, MS Wordpad, 2simple IVT or even as scanned paper and pencil writing.

Pictures are also sent using the file transfer form. These can scanned, photographed or created in any art package. We will accept files in any graphic format. Bandwidth is not a problem, please don't sacrifice picture quality for smaller file sizes. You can also send your pictures by post and we will scan or photograph them for you.

TALKING STORIES
Many children with learning difficulties will find writing a story on paper quite challenging. We would encourage you to look at alternative ways of recording their work. Creating a talking story may be one approach. Stories could be narrated and recorded onto the computer for conversion to wav or mp3 files. These can be sent using the file transfer form in the same way as with artwork. If you are not sure how to do this simply send us the tape by post and we will do the rest for you.

INTERACTIVE STORY BOOKS
Some classes are making big books of giant stories, where each pupil writes and illustrates a page of the book. We have created a simple interactive book template in MS Powerpoint that you can use for these stories. These books work really well on an interactive whiteboard. Simply click on the page to add text and graphics. If you would like to publish your class (or school) book, send it to us using the file transfer form. We'll do the rest.


Interactive Book Template
Download this easy to edit Microsoft Powerpoint interactive book template.

Adding your text or graphics is simple and full instructions are provided.

DOWNLOAD (286k)


PUBLISHING
All stories and artwork we receive will be published on the web site within 24 hours. This delay is to ensure that stories containing inappropriate language or themes are not published.

All stories and artwork we receive will be displayed on the web site until Christmas.


CONTACT DETAILS / EMAIL ADDRESSES
Emails should be sent to

giants@priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk

You can also send artwork, stories and other material by mail, however we will not be able to return them.

The address is:

The Gallery of Giants
Priory Woods School
Tothill Avenue
Netherfields
Middlesbrough
TS3 0RH
United Kingdom

We would welcome your comments to help us improve this and future online projects.
Please send any feedback to ian@priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk

 

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