#100wcCHAT links teachers and educators from around the globe to get together and discuss exciting and engaging opportunities for writing, with particular reference to the 100 Word Challenge (100wc.net). This simple, free online project provides a weekly a prompt of a picture or a series of individual words and students respond, ideally using 100 words to produce a creative piece. This is posted on a class blog and then linked to 100wc.net. The link is open from midday on Sundays until midnight the following Saturday.
A team of volunteers are assigned posts to comment on and it is these comments that give writing a purpose and change writers into authors.
Do join the conversation on Twitter every Wednesday at 9pm GMT, 4pm ET, 3pm CT, 1pm PT, Thursday 5am SGT/WA (Perth), Thursday 8am AEDT, Thursday 8am NZT.
It's time! Good evening #100wcCHAT friends, I hope you've all had a great week. Ian here, head teacher, hosting on my own tonight as Julia is having a fabulous time away.
I can see that would make sense. Do you have any struggling writers who may benefit from the #fivesc? We use it for some of our children to build confidence in KS2 #100wcCHAT
Question 1 - I use a book for creative writing with kids, use prompts made by young students, we improvise prompts from our own experience, we use our global theme for this school year: "living values". #100wcCHAT
#100wcCHAT@irockey@ThisIsLiamM With struggling writters I try the 77 words challenge in a Portuguese Blog and very simple Prompts; in some rare occasions I write down very quickly their inspired sentences, to encourage them
@irockey#100wcCHAT She taught us to refine our writing by restraining the number of words. I went through more than 20 challenges, it was true: we conquered a more perfect form of expression.
#100wcCHAT Perhaps because the picture sent us free, while the five word is a more disciplined exercise. In our course online we had to write 77 words always starting with the letters A T E M P O S
Question 3: #100wcCHAT I would love to have some parents helping me to get just a few students for the 5 sentences challenge. I'll work on that during Christmas holidays.
Have you run any blogging afternoons or sessions for parents to join their children and see exactly what they do and how hard they work? That worked for us #100wcChat
#100wcCHAT I would love that parents come to comment on our blog: they are used to visit, but I think they don't comment because it's me that posts the hand written texts, as my 52 students just come to the writing workshop for 45m a week.
#100wcCHAT We hear something upstairs. It was in the loft. Into the loft we go. Shining the torch around. Nothing. Huh. We turn to go back downstairs. But, the tiger was blocking our escape…
