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Show Notes:
Round Robin Story:
This is a round robin story. A round robin story has several different people contributing to the story. This particular story had 27 people contributing to it. There were several rules and guidelines which went along with this particular story:
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Each person must contribute between 5 & 15 sentences.
No death or blood and guts.
After every two or three writers an editor will look it over for continuity and grammar.
When it is done we will read it out loud and make any necessary changes.
Each person will record their own section.
The entire recording was done with an iRiver. This device picks up a lot of sound. As we were recording, I showed the students the audio files and how to manipulate them. This was a learning situation for myself as well since I had never edited audio files before.
This story was created by a 7th grade class in Northern Arizona. When the idea was presented to them they were so eager they were fighting over who got to write and when. I solved the dilemma by placing all the students names in a hat and drawing who would write and when. The students seemed to enjoy the project. And here is the final product…
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I love how creative your class was with the settings in each scene and all the animals helping along the way.
It was also great to hear each student reading their own contribution to the story.
I am looking forward to what your next class will add in their installment of the story.
Thank you! They really had fun with the story. We will have to add to it next year!