BurellWorldLit: 1001 Tales Reflections - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 May 07
  

  Clay Burell

  
  I was able to learn their cultures just through their stories.
  
  Starting with the idea to make 1001 tales in different countries, I was able to learn their cultures just through their stories.
  
  
  

• 20 May 07
  

  reallyclean
  • 1. What did you like best about the project and why?
  • 2. What did you like least and why?
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
  • 4. How do you think the project affected your writing?
  • 5. Describe the most challenging aspect of the project.
  • 6. Offer some advice to future participants.
  • 7. Other comments.
  • I hated that we had to revise and leave comments like every day.
  • I really liked how we were able to communicate with other people around the world.
  • They weren't as good at writing stories, but were not really that bad, just need some work.
  • I think it helped me mainly on making my story flow and sound well while reading it. For me it was probably adding dashes, colons, and all of that stuff.
  • Stay prepared and on task, cause if you fall behind a little it will take sometime to catch back up.
  • I thought that this was pretty cool, but I would try to make it funner for the us students so we will want to participate more in this.
  • What I liked the best was the capability to contact with other students through peer-editing each other. Starting with the idea to make 1001 tales in different countries, I was able to learn their cultures just through their stories. I liked how I could.
  • I didn't like the way some students had to peer edit in their point of view too much. Everyone has different style of writing, and sometimes I felt like people might not like the story that might be brilliant in certain culture.
  • 3. What I learned was that Hawaii had better writing than others. The stories were all different, obviously. But now, I think I can tell if a story given is from Colorado or Hawaii or Korea.
  • 4. I think affected me in a ways that I was able to learn how to make my writing strong. The fact that other country learners peer-edit mine made me learn something different, because the way they edited mine was different from Koreans.
  • 5. The most challenging was the time. To get things in time and to make sure I'm doing things in time was challenging. I also tried to improve my writing to match the ideas that learners in Colorado, or Hawaii may appreciate.
  • 6. I hope we could have the time stabled and have everything done at time. Also, I hope there are more students to share ideas, more different people. Not only with America, but somewhere in the Middle-East or even Europe. Why not Africa!
  • I especially liked about how we were able to define ourselves, using stories. We were able to have fun writing stories which we wanted to write.
  • I didn't liked about how we had to read other's and grade using certain traits (ex. voice, word choice).
  • 3. I learned that even though students in America knows better English, it seemed like we knew more creative writings.
  • 4. Sine the project's procedure was revision throughout all of the important traits of writing, we were able to make the writing perfect with all traits, and especially because not only you, but two of other peers have gave helpful comments.
  • 5. The style of writing was very different, with many other students from different culture, with different writing style. It was also difficult to revise different people each week. Sort of confusing I could say.
  • 6. DON'T BE TOO LAZY!
  • What I liked best about this project is that many people around the world participated in the project. Students around the world peer edited each other and read each other's stories. The project was kind of free in a way of writing a story of your own choice.
  • What I liked least is that it was hard to give each other grades. Peer editing and giving opinion was hard. Sometimes, people were offensive (grinding into meatball) and it hurt people's feelings.
  • 3. I learend that even though people in America speaks better english, people in our international school seem to know more about giving details and better imaginations.
  • 4. It affected my writing in all 6 traits. Word choice, convections, voice, and all other traits helped in my writing and improved my skills.
  • 5. The challenging aspect was to make the story interesting. It was hard to grab people's attention and making the story more attractive.
  • 6. DO NOT BE LAZY AND WRITE YOUR BEST STORY
  • 7. I personally liked this project since it involved with students in other countries which had different view of their cultures. Most of their writing showed their culture and how they are special.
  • What we enjoyed about this project is that we got to interact with other people from different parts of the world.
  • It was a bit confusing because it was our first time; we are actually the first people to try it. It was confusing about the dates, especially when it was due.
  • 3. We never knew that their culture could be different from us and kind of had a hard time understanding our culture.
  • 4. The project affected our writing because we worked on this project for quite a while and more than one person has revised our writing and they taught us some things that were missing in our story.
  • 5. What was challenging was trying to communicate with the people because we don't know how they look like, who they are, and what their personality was really like.
  • 6. Don't be lazy when doing this project and do your homework on time because if you make it late once, it'll become a habit
  • - The thing that I like the best about this project was the opportunity to share ideas overboard. I realized that we have so many differences but we have as many similarities. I was honored and glad to view the world from a different perspective.
  • - There was no specific thing I liked the least, but there was some minor problems in communication. Since we have time difference, it was hard to keep up with the revision work. And sometimes, our peers didn't revise the stories on time, which made it harder for people to keep working on the story.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    - As I mentioned before, one of the surprising thing was the similarities we had. Even though we look different and live in different cultures, they way we think was very similar, but yet unique. I just loved them:].
  • - Since the peers were always there to give sharp advices and suggestions and to give great compliments, I felt very supported. Reading my story from different perspectives and giving different types of advices helped me a lot in improving my story.
  • - The most challenging aspect of the project was time difference, once again. But it's not something we could change, so I just got over with it shortly.
  • - When revising other people's stories, don't just give compliments, because sometimes, bitter comments can help them more. But this doesn't mean that you can mock about their cultures or stories. You still have to show the best respect toward the author.
  • 7. Other comments.
    - This project not only helped me improve my story, but it taught me lessons in other aspects of life, too, such as cultural aspects. Thank you and wish you the best luck to the future participants:]!
  • - The part that I liked most about the 1001 Tales project was that we were actually able to connect with students our age in different countries. These types of projects that we've only been thinking about came possible in reality through this project--learning that just because we're in different countries, that doesn't mean we can do work together.
  • - The thing that I liked least was the time differences. Because we were in different time zones, it was hard to keep up with our schedule daily. Also, when other students fell back in leaving feedbacks, we weren't able to do our work.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    - The surprising thing about the students in the other countries was that there wasn't much difference between us, even though we had separate backgrounds. It was quite amazing about the strong connections we had through our stories.
  • - With so many people revising my work and giving me advice in how to make my writing better, I not only learned what other people see in my writing, but also how to change certain parts to satisfy many readers.
  • - The most challenging aspect, as I said before, was the fact that we were in different time zones. Communication was one problem, but doing work along with the communication was another.
  • - When doing such projects like we did for our 1001 Tales project, you shouldn't have a biased mind or stereotype of any kind because you are working with people from various cultures. You should know how to respect other cultures because they will also be judging your culture at the same time.
  • 7. Other comments.
    - The idea of working on students' writing with people overseas was not only a great experience for me, but also gave me great improvement in my writing and life. This experience was a great way to see different cultures compared in a positive way.
  • I liked the fact that we got to interact with others from another country. It was fun to read other people’s story and learn about their culture.
  • I didn’t like the fact that some people wouldn’t comment on my story or the timing was different and so it was hard to arrange the time. Only thing that I didn’t like was the time difference.

  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?

     

    I learned that many Americans wrote stories from another story that existed. I thought it was interesting.
  • I think by writing story and having people you don’t know correct the story was a good way to revise a story.
  • I thought that having to comment was hard. Some people did good but seemed like things were missing but I wasn’t sure what was wrong.
  • Be on time, don’t be late and please try to make the comment exact. Explain why you said this.
  • - The thing that I liked the most about this project is that we came to read and understand about the different writing style and culture of each other (Hawaii, Denver, and Seoul), and that we were able to interact and give feedback to their story. By doing so, we socialized and changed different opinions, which I thought was unique. It's clearly different from projects that we do in school, because international projects allow students to interact with each other to learn things that they won't from their fellow students at their own schools.
  • - Although interacting with students from other countries was good, I thought that not being able to communicate with them fast enough was inconvenient. It's quite easy to tell people from your own school anything about the project, but it's not so easy to do it to students from other countries, because communication occurs via e-mail or online messages. Therefore, it takes quite a long time to read the e-mail and react, and I thought that e-mails have their limits in expressing specific wants.
  • - I was surprised that their standard of a good story was very different form ours. First, I couldn't understand why they didn't like my story, and I thought that their reasons werent' justified enough. However, as time passed by, I found out that their standards are just different from ours, and that certain differences should be accepted.
  • - Yeah, very much indeed! Reading other students' stories and constantly looking at the sentence patters, and most importantly, peerfeeding helped me improve my own writing, because I was inspired and was both jealous of good writers, and that really made me push myself into writing a better story.
  • - I thought that pleasing everyone with my story was the most difficult part of this project. Because everyone had such different opinions, getting good comments from every student was very hard. Some liked my story (mostly from Korea), while others thought that my story wasn't as good. But in the end, everything turned out to be okay, because I found the right spot for my story^^;;
  • - Because it's so hard to message each other and find out who did what wrong, seriously, follow instructions 'perfectly'. Keep deadlines, do precisely what you're supposed to do!

  • . Other comments.

     

    - This was a terrific experience: I learned so many new things, new, useful things during this project. Although there were times where I was utterly depressed (because I found out that I wasn't a good writer after all, looking at other students' writing), I think I now have a little idea of how to persuade and please others wit hmy writing. I know I still have a long way to go, but my writing experience is off to a good start!
  • Through this project I was able to learn about different cultures. Also I think I was able to provide information about my own culture to other students.
  • I didn’t like the fact the we had to revise my story every other week and also it was really hard to put my culture stuff to story.
  • I was surprised about the other students’ writing style. I felt that other students tend to consider write with their own style and it was very natural, but Korean tend to write story in some kind of format(?) When Korean’s writing seems very precise and well written essay but at the same time their story doesn’t have each individual’s voice.
  • I think this project didn’t affected that much to my writing.
  • This whole project was challenging. Weekly assignment, leaving comments, revision…
  • I think instead of forcing all the students to write the story, I think it is better to give opportunities to people only who are really interested in this.  
  • I liked about peer works and editing processes online. Students from different regions of world got together online on internet and did project internationally. It was new and interesting to get to know each other.
  • Due dates weren’t set and it was hard to keep up with the changes. Also there were some irresponsible peers that didn’t keep the due dates so some people couldn’t revise well.
  • The stories showed their cultural backgrounds and personalities in their projects.
  • My writing didn’t really change a lot.
  • My sentence styles changed.
  • Writing stories that showed the most of my culture and personal life was hard to choose.
  • Make strict due dates

  • 7. Other comments.

     

    Interesting project J
  •  1. By meeting the students we can read their writings.
  • 2. Not everyone did their work on time so I had to wait for my partner to give me feedbacks while other students got already.
  • 3. That students in our school can write better than other school's students.
  • It improved my writing by adding
    
  •  I honestly didn't like writing this piece, but the best thing about the project I liked was that we got to know people from other countries. I could know how other people in the states wrote compared to me.
  • What I liked least about the project was how a lot of people (in my view) weren't completely honest when evaluating. It felt like people were giving my stories higher scores than I deserved.
  • To my surprise, a lot of stories from the other schools didn't seem to have been written with clear effort. There were some good stories too, but most of them were really short.
  • I can't say for sure whether the project impacted my writing, but I think it was a good experience to try and write about my past in a creative way.
  • he most challenging part of this project was not how to write my story, but how to evaluate other stories. As soon as I read other stories, I understood that it wasn't easy trying to give clear, and good peer feedback to other students.
  • In the future, I think students should be completely honest.
  • We can meet new people and read their writings.
  • ould grow as a  "writer" and push myself to use my creativity to write and revise my story.
  • Other schools seemed to not participate and give good advice.
  • the feedback I received from other schools were often poorly written and vague. I know that a feedback trade was set up as a solution for this, but nevertheless some of the students lacked motivation. I guess that there is no real solution for this but just to ask good writers to look at my story, because there will always be lazy people..  
  • I was surprised that their writings had no creativity.
  • was surprised at how little they knew about us. We are used to both the western culture and the Korean culture, but they are not. To them, the Korean culture must have seemed very new..Also, I was surprised to find that their writings were immature and cliche.
  • It made me think more creatively.
  • The project improved my sentence styling and organizing, and developing ideas for my story. It was challenging to revise every week, but in the end, it helped me to become a writer.
  • trying to communicate with people hundred of miles away (time difference confusions).
  • ommunicating nicely when giving feedback. It was hard to say that "I don't like this story, because.." while not offending them. Also, I had many comments that my story was confusing from Denver students, whereas Hawaii and Seoul students had no trouble understanding it. In other words, it was hard dealing with bad readers.
  • don't be scared to say that their story is bad when you give feedback. Sometimes, they need that comment.
  • please work on the project with motivation and passion. Use an idea that you really like for your story, so you actually WORK on the story. When you give feedback, be specific and constructive. If you need extra feedback, ask the good writers to do yours and give them feedback in return.
  • rall, it was a great experience. I liked writing my story (but I didn't like it when the Denver people didn't read it thoroughly and said "I'm confused.")  
  • The best thing about 1001 tales was to communicate with the people from other countries. Also, by helping each other—by having different cultures—helped me learn more. Sometimes, I didn’t know what I did bad in my writing and wanted to know how I should improve, but the only way that actually helped me improve my writing is the people from other countries that helped me learn more about my writing. That is my best thing about 1001 tales.
  • The least thing about 1001 tales was the schedule. We all had different timing and it was hard to stay in schedule.
  • I learned something surprising about the other students was when they different ideas. Ideas which was really creative. Ideas that I have never thought of it before. It was really interesting to see how these other students have great ideas. They can help us and they in fact, did help me a lot, to bring more creative ideas and etc. That is something surprising that I learned about the other students.
  • I think the project affected my writing by being more creative. Also, it affected my writing to have style and voice. These were the things that I think it made my writing better.
  • he most challenging aspect of the project was the time difference. The time difference (as I said above) was the hardest thing ever to keep in time.
  • Organize your schedule!
  • I had fun! And it was a great experience!
  • I really liked how we were able to work with students our age all around the world for this writing assignment. Even though we didn't get to meet the participating classes face to face, I feel we really got to know each other. We learned the other people's hobbies, culture, and even their level of writing.
  • I really liked how we were able to work with students our age all around the world for this writing assignment. Even though we didn't get to meet the participating classes face to face, I feel we really got to know each other. We learned the other people's hobbies, culture, and even their level of writing.
  • really liked how we were able to work with students our age all around the world for this writing assignment. Even though we didn't get to meet the participating classes face to face, I feel we really got to know each other. We learned the other people's hobbies, culture, and even their level of writing.
  • I really liked how we were able to work with students our age all around the world for this writing assignment. Even though we didn't get to meet the participating classes face to face, I feel we really got to know each other. We learned the other people's hobbies, culture, and even their level of writing.
  • I really liked how we were able to work with students our age all around the world for this writing assignment. Even though we didn't get to meet the participating classes face to face, I feel we really got to know each other. We learned the other people's hobbies, culture, and even their level of writing.
  • I really liked how we were able to work with students our age all around the world for this writing assignment. Even though we didn't get to meet the participating classes face to face, I feel we really got to know each other. We learned the other people's hobbies, culture, and even their level of writing.
  • I really liked how we were able to work with students our age all around the world for this writing assignment. Even though we didn't get to meet the participating classes face to face, I feel we really got to know each other. We learned the other people's hobbies, culture, and even their level of writing.
  • 2. What did you like least and why?
    I didn`t like the stories that seemed to have no effort put into them. I saw many versions of a stories I already knew and they just seemed fake to me. I read a couple that were completely random and not interesting at all. They had no story line to them or anything. Those were the ones that dissapointed me because I felt like they weren`t putting enough effort into them which just caused me to do more work to give them A LOT of feedback which they needed.
  • 2. What did you like least and why?
    I didn't really like having to edit peoples papers because i would have to keep scrolling back up to answer the questions for editing. I also don't like reading boring stories and some of them were a little boring. It's just me, andI know editing is required for this project to happen though.
  • It really started to bug me that I was getting lousy feedback week after week. It seemed like many of the other students didn't care about giving quality feedback. They were just saying things like, "Your story is missing something but I don't know what." It started to irritate me. I also didn't like giving feedback because it took me a long time to read a story and figure out where it needs improvement.
  • It really started to bug me that I was getting lousy feedback week after week. It seemed like many of the other students didn't care about giving quality feedback. They were just saying things like, "Your story is missing something but I don't know what." It started to irritate me. I also didn't like giving feedback because it took me a long time to read a story and figure out where it needs improvement.
  • It really started to bug me that I was getting lousy feedback week after week. It seemed like many of the other students didn't care about giving quality feedback. They were just saying things like, "Your story is missing something but I don't know what." It started to irritate me. I also didn't like giving feedback because it took me a long time to read a story and figure out where it needs improvement.
  • It really started to bug me that I was getting lousy feedback week after week. It seemed like many of the other students didn't care about giving quality feedback. They were just saying things like, "Your story is missing something but I don't know what." It started to irritate me. I also didn't like giving feedback because it took me a long time to read a story and figure out where it needs improvement.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    To be completely truthful, I was surprised to learn the kids in Korea could even write in or understand English... It was more surprising to see how well they could write, grammar put aside. Their stories had interesting plots and more importantly amazing details. The storylines they chose allowed them opportunities to intertwine emotional scenes and they fully utilized those opportunities using similies from their culture, details, and descriptive vocabulary.
    
  • I mainly learned that some of the students really didn't care about school. I read one story that was about a giant pizza eating all the people of earth. You've got to be kidding me! Put a little effort into school. Not all students were bad. Some gave really good feedback and wrote excellent stories. Some of the feedback I received was very helpful.
    
  • I mainly learned that some of the students really didn't care about school. I read one story that was about a giant pizza eating all the people of earth. You've got to be kidding me! Put a little effort into school. Not all students were bad. Some gave really good feedback and wrote excellent stories. Some of the feedback I received was very helpful.
  • 4. How do you think the project affected your writing?
    This project helped me understand what makes a good fictional story. Every week, we revised on a different writing mechanic. It told me what a good story should have.
  • 5. Describe the most challenging aspect of the project.
    Like I said before, feedback was very hard. It took such a long time to think of something thoughtful to help the writer. I spent at least 30 minutes on each story I read and gave feedback.
    
  • 5. Describe the most challenging aspect of the project.
    
    Giving other people feedback was tedious and lame. I had to make sure I wasn't too mean even though I really wanted to be [some chick like totally copied and pasted A Walk To Remember] so I was usually a little too nice. We had to read ALL the stories and some of them were bland and it was SO tedious having to read them and actually think about it.
    
  • 5. Describe the most challenging aspect of the project.
    It was hard to apply the advice and feedback to my story. Unless it was something really specific, like someone saying I should change a certain word or sentence into this word or sentence or pointed out a specific point in the story that needed work, I couldn't figure out what I could do to make it sound good or better. When people said things like, "Your transitions need work" or "It's not very original", I wasn't really sure what to do or how to fix it.
  • 5. Describe the most challenging aspect of the project.
    I think the most challenging part was doing everything on time. You had a larger responsibility than just doing regular homework because other people depend on your feedback. Its not only going to hurt you, it going to hurt the others. Making sure you posted everything on time was a little challenging.
  • 6. Offer some advice to future participants.
    Don't get behind on feedback. You don't want to end up on the Lazy list. Three times your name appears on the lazy list and you're out of the project.
  • 6. Offer some advice to future participants.
    1. Turn everything in on time.
    2. Read the peers stories not only once, but twice or three times.
    3. Make sure you are editing the right person page because it can get a little confusing.
  • Don't get behind on feedback. You don't want to end up on the Lazy list. Three times your name appears on the lazy list and you're out of the project.
  • 7. Other comments.
    If we were to do this again, I would recommend that we have more time to give feedback. I usually had only a few days to read two stories. It is easy to revise your story after receiving feedback. I could do it in two nights. Maybe give us five days to give feedback and two days to revise, instead of three days to give feedback and four days to revise.
  • 7. Other comments.
    this project was great. I wish i could`ve talked to some of the kids over skype and actually get a sense of who they really were. Most of the kids had great stories and by reading the stories you get a small sense of who they really are and that just makes the whole project all the better.
  • My favorite part of the project was just talking to my dad about his past and finding a n idea for my story. For days I kept trying to figure out what I would write about, and as soon as he told me his childhood story, it automatically clicked. I just knew that I NEEDED to write about it.
  • Well I really hate using the computer, I really REALLY prefer having an assignment, writing it, and turning it in. I don't like having to wait for feedback from my peers, I prefer to just turn it in and get one final feedback. So basically I really didn't like the project, but I also didn't like recording because I HATE listening to my own voice.
  • Um...that the Colorado kids didn't give any feedback. In all I only got 3 comments and they were all from the kids in Korea. I was really disappointed.
  • Well the best feedback I got was from our sub, and he reminded me to put everything in either present/past tense, and to not flop around. And I made that mistake MANY times and not only in this writing piece. So now I'm fully aware of my weakness and I know what to look for.
  • Give feedback, and hopefully you'll get feedback. Think of a good title, and make sure the first few sentences REALLY capture the reader, it makes a huge difference. Oh, and don't write some lame story about how you're asian and how everyone expects you to be nerdy and you feel so rejected/isolated because of your race...It gets really boring, really fast. I read several of those and I must say that I got quite sick.
  • Eh, wikispaces. Me no likey, but whatever floats your boat
  • I would have to say I liked getting feedback from others the most because it allowed me to see what other people want in a story and all the mistakes that I couldn't see myself. All the different kinds of feedback I got helped me write a story that I could be proud of.
  • I wasn't so fond of the times when I had to read a story that was blatantly plagiarized or that obviously had no thought of creativity (or effort for that matter) put into it. Reading those are a real drag at times.
  • I learned that different students from different areas of the world all tend to value different things, for example reading the stories from Korea really showed me how much the Koreans value family and education in their everyday lives.
  • The project changed the way I write for the better. I can write overall better sentences that are more interesting to read and I now better know what readers like in a story.
  • The most challenging aspect of the story was by far coming up with a good story to begin with as your first draft.
  • Make sure you are interested and enjoy your own story and like to read it. This ensures that when you go to make revisions you are actually trying to make the story better and have a motivated form of thinking rather than just trying to finish your English homework. Plus it makes it a more fun experience in general, especially when you see how others respond to your story.
  • The project was an overall good experience and helps you get a worldwide opinion of your writing and how to better that writing. This should be implemented in all high school English classes. It also gives you a brief taste of what real life is like in the sense that there are time deadlines that need to be met not just for yourself but for others and how others depend on you.
  • The thing that I enjoyed most about this project is that I got to work with peers outside of Hawaii, so it wasn't just my classmates and my teacher reading the story I had written. Not only was the experience exciting, but also the writing process where I got to ask my dad questions about my great-great-great grandfather and I got to learn more about my roots and the people of my blood that lived before me. It was interesting to learn about the lifestyle that my grandfather had and the difficulties he had gone through and that he was forced to cope with. My grandfather had made the best out of everything and I really respect him for what he had done for everyone, even under difficult circumstances.
  • I didn't like that the editors didn't actually get to edit the papers like you do when you correct papers, editing spelling, grammatical errors and inserting different ideas within the paper. It was difficult to edit parts of the paper because it was difficult to open up and fix ideas that I wanted to change. I also had technological issues because I couldn't put the garageband recording that I had made properly like other people had done.
  • The Korean students were very studious and worked hard on their own stories while spending time to edit other people's as well. Unfortunately for the Colorado students, they had been taking other exams at the time so they didn't spend too much time on working on their stories and weren't as productive as the Korean students had been. Most of the students that edited my story gave really good feedback and I changed many parts with their help.
  • I think that I paid a lot of attention to tenses and tried to express my story and 'paint a picture' instead of just saying outright who my grandfather was. I learned to be a little more creative and also that the problem that I have when writing is my word choice. A lot of times I can't get the right words to fit in with my sentences and therefore my stories aren't as interesting as they could be. This I learned from feedback from the students from Korea and Colorado. Now I try to keep an open mind about vocabularies that I can use and how I can make my story pop out and be more colorful instead of staying in the dark with black and white.
  • most challenging aspect of this project was basically just the technological issues that I had. I didn't know how to use certain things on the wikispaces and it was actually quite difficult to manage. It was also challenging editing on the wikispaces because I'm so used to working with word. The buttons and functions were all so confusing it took awhile to get used to.
  • My advice to future participants would be to ask any questions you have about the wikispaces and don't just try to do everything on your own. I hadn't really asked any of my peers or my teacher how certain things worked so I was left to figure out everything by myself.
  • This was a different and fun experience for me, I've never done anything like this before, so I'm glad that I got to try it.
  • I liked that our comments of our story was from many different people with varying viewpoints on writing, it wasn't all the same people with similar thoughts. I also liked that we got to read pieces from over the world and see the way they think.
  • I least liked when people gave either criticism that could be more precise or none at all. It makes it hard for your story to work well if your commenter aren't doing their jobs.
  • I learned a lot about the areas they live in and what kind of culture they have. In the school in Korea, I read numerous stories containing their cultural food, as well as stories about both the North and South Korea. From the school in Colorado I learned about the favorite pastimes they enjoy on the mainland.
  • The project altered my writing my introducing me to many different types of styles. There were countless ways a story was introduced, and even more differences on how it was carried out, and I saw some excellent techniques that I could employ myself.
  • The hardest part in this project was collaborating with people around the world. Since all the variations in timezones, work was often due on different days for everyone, which made it confusing at first. After a few weeks though it became clear what was due on each day.
    
  • Be sure to read and give comments, and especially give them on time. The commenting is one of the things that makes the Flatworld project unique. You can get feedback from people that have a lot to offer you writing wise. If you don't use their comments your giving up a valuable resource to make your story shine.
  • This project was really fun, and it was great to work with all the people from Colorado and Korea.
  • The part of the project I enjoyed the best was how easily we were able to share our stories with one another. In previous English classes I have been apart of, we only shared our work through hard copies. Because we could only see our peer's work in class, we could only read a few different stories. But in this class, with the flatworld, we were able to share work online. By having our stories online we could access them anytime, even at home. Because of this we could see the stories of so many people, even stories from other countries. Because the stories were so easy to access, it also made it easy to edit. I was really impressed and valued how we were able to get our stories edited by so many people.
    Another thing that I really liked were the podcasts. Creating the podcasts was a new skill for everyone and they were very easy to do. They were also extremely effective for expressing our story. By listening to the podcasts we get a better idea of how the story was intended to be heard.
  • One thing I didn't like about this project was the small yet abundant complications. What I mean by this was that there were many different things that were slightly problamatic, but because they happened so often they became a big problem. One of these problems was how nearly everyone was unclear of what to do. The different countries seemed to have different schedules. I was constantly confused of deadlines. Another problem I encountered was how I didn't recieve feedback from everyone. The project would have been much more effective if everyone was responsible enough to edit each others paper on time. I know that many of these problems could not be helped. I also realize that this is the first time anyone has ever done a project like this, so of course there are going to be complications. So I hope that in the future these problems can be fixed so this project can reach its full potential of helping students.
  • One thing that I learned about other schools was honestly, how the skills of Punahou students seemed to surpass those of other schools. I was also surprised when reading stories by how their cultures and issues are very similar to ours. For example, the kids in South Korea have the seem to have the same values, talk the same and even listen to the same music and watch the same television shows as we students in Hawaii do. Also we shared many of the same types of experiences dealing with things such as school, family, war, etc.
  • Honestly, I do not think this project helped my writing much. Of course my writing skills improved slightly but I don't think they improved too much relative to the time we spent on the project. I think we spent around six weeks on the project, but I think I could have improved the same amount through a regular writing project that would only take around one week. One of the reasons this project wasn't very effective was the feedback. Although we recieved feedback from many different people, it wasn't very helpful. We were given a format for the feedback that everyone used, and because of this all the feedback was pretty much the same. The format also limited the advice we could give.
  • The most challenging aspect of the project for me was generating the basic plot of my story. It actually took me days to think of my initial idea to build off of. I chose to write about something I experienced but I had to think of many different twists to extend the story and make it more interesting.
  • I would advise future participants to keep up with the deadlines, whether it be giving feedback or revising. Giving feedback is very important to finish in time becuase other students are depending on you and waiting for you to help them. Also, it is important for you to finish revising in time so you won't fall behind. I would also advise to take a lot of time of creating your initial idea. You will be writing a story about it for a very long time so make sure you like your idea and it is something that is interesting and something you can write a lot about.
  • I think this project has a ton of potential. The idea is fantastic but some complications need to be fixed. One suggestion I have is to get rid of the feedback formats. I think it would be better to just give a main subject to focus on each week but allow students to have the freedom to assist the writer with anything. I also think that the project could be shortened. It seemed that a week or two could have been cut. The deadlines for revisions and editing could be shortened to do this; they only take one night...
  • I liked the fact that we were able to connect with different schools not only from around our Country, but around the world as well. This project connected students from different areas of the world by sharing stories about themselves. Without this project we probably wound not have been able to meet so many students from other schools around the world.
  • The part of this project I liked the least was the way the feedback system was set up. It was sometimes confusing on who to give feedback to and when feedback was due to the other students.
  • was most impressed with the students from Korea. The students from Korea were able to write unbelievably well, and for some of them that is not even their first language.
  • I feel my writing changed for the better. By having writing partners in Korea, it taught me to be more descriptive with my writing. Most times things would have to have been explained in good detail, otherwise other students would not understand what was happening in your story.
  • The most challenging part of this project was the time differences between each of the schools. Because Korea, for example, was almost a full day ahead of us, they were often waiting on our class to finish.
  • Patience is the key. Because this project involves students from around the world, there is obviously going to be some sort of confusion. I would also suggest to try and give the best feedback possible, it really helps the writer if good feedback is given.
  • This is a worthwhile project. It was an interesting way to learn about other cultures from around the world, and still be able to improve our writing skills.
  • I liked that we didn't have to use paper. I think that it is very important that we become a more sustainable school. If more classes tried this project, we would save a lot of paper. A lot of paper would be saved because we wouldn't have to print out any drafts since its all online. Another aspect that I liked was that we got feedback from so many different people. Usually when I have written stories in the past, we never got feedback from two different people for about six drafts. Usually we just have one or two drafts before the final. I think that it helped that each week we focused on different concepts that needed to be completed by the final draft. This helped because it made the peer editing process a lot less overwhelming.
    
  • I didn't like how the deadlines were confusing. Sometimes I didn't know when I was supposed to give feedback or post a new draft because the date were always changing. Also I didn't always know when my partners were supposed to respond to me. Sometimes I didn't even know who my writing partners were because when they said like 4 rows below you, I didn't know if I was supposed to count my row or not. It would have helped if they had made it more clear on telling you who you were supposed to read specifically and when the feedback and drafts were due.
  • Well I learned that the public school students had to take these state tests. I never knew that public school students had to do this. Also I learned, from the meet and greet pages, that even though the Korean students lived in Korea they still had many similarities as us. I used to think that they were different with different tastes in music, movies, fashion, and music. However I found that they shared a lot of similarities with the people in my class.
  • think that this project helped my writing. I believe this because the people of Colorado and Korea gave me advice that was different from the other advice I have been given in the past. This is the good part about conversing with people that don't work with you often because they sometimes have tips and advice that you haven't heard before.
  • The time zones. This was challenging for me because it always confused me. It confused me because I didn't know the deadlines for the other people. This means that I didn't know if someone was being lazy and not doing their work or if their work wasn't due yet. It also got confusing when the schools went on their spring breaks because they would also take a break from the project.
  • Make sure that you stay on time with all of the deadlines. If you don't it just gets confusing because people don't know if you are late or not. This is because the deadlines are also very confusing. Also you need to be patient with the other students because some of them won't do the work on time, but will do it eventually.
  • I think that this project should continue on during the years. Even though there were some problems, like people not posting drafts or giving feedback in time, it's still worth it. Also it's good to get the experience of working with many different people, not just the people that are in your class. This can also help because different people have different views and different advice.
  • 1. The thing I liked best about this project was the podcasts of everyones story. The reason I liked this was because it allowed us to get to know the people who's story we listened to even better. One of the main goals of this project was not only to write a paper but also to interact from different kids around the world. I learned a lot about them by reading their papers but I learned the most about them by listening to other kid's stories. Listening to stories allowed me to do two things: First, it allowed me get to know the person better by hearing their voice. It's like an aim conversation verses a phone coversation. If you meet someone for the first time over the phone, you feel like you know the person a lot better than if you just type to them on aim. Second, it allows us to realize what parts of their story are most important. Because we have different cultures, they would emphasize different things than we would in their stories. By listening to the story we can tell what is important by how they read it. This also makes the story more enjoyable. The podcasts were very fun and helpful.
  • 2. The thing I liked the least about this projects was that we had to correct a different thing each week on the other persons paper. One week it was word choice and the next week it was sentence fluency. I didn't like this because I don't think it allowed people to be as helpful as possible. There might have been some people that realized that one part of a story needed a lot of work but because they were assigned to correct something else, didn't fix it. This is bad because the person won't get the best feedback possible which will make their story not as good as it could possibly be. It is also bad because if we are correcting something that the paper already does very good, there's really nothing we could do. We should be able to correct whatever we felt like needed the most work.
  • 3. One surprising thing about some other students was how blatantly some plagiarized. Some students almost exactly copied famous fairy tails such as Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. They used the same characters and changed only the smallest details. They only changed it after three or four people said how much alike it was to these fairy tails. And even after they tried to fix it, you could still tell the concept was the same even though they changed the characters and a few other things. I was very surprised at how lax other schools plagiarism policies were.
  • Honestly, I don't think that this project didn't helped my writing that much because it was reviewed in a way that we will probably not need in the future. It took us six weeks to correct our paper which is a lot longer than we will normally have. I also feel that the feedback I recieved was not ground-breaking. The stuff they told me to correct was stuff I already knew I had to correct but I had to wait until the certain week to do it. And sometimes the feedback that I received was just lazy. For example, the week we were correcting word choice, someone told me to use the thesaurus so that I could have bigger words. The only thing it helped me realize was that I should pay more attention to having all six categories in my writing the next time I write a fictional paper. Overall, I don't think that this project helped me become a better writer.
  • The most challenging part of this project for me was making this story interesting. Because I chose a story that had a very good point but was not very interesting, it was hard to add fictional parts to the story to make it more interesting while at the same time making sure that I still get my point across. The main point of my story was that my dad was honest and returned money he had been overchanged when he was very young the next day he found even more money lying on the street. It was hard to make interesting because I had to think of a believable but exciting event that made my dad decide to return the money and realize that what he was doing was stealing. It was hard to be creative but believable at the same time.
  • 6. The most important advice I can give to future students is to make sure that you have pretty much your whole story done before it starts getting corrected. If you don't, not only will you start to fall behind but you're story will not end up as good in the end. When people see a partially done story they don't correct very well since it's not done. Also, for the rest of the story you hadn't finished, that part will miss some very important corrections which will cause that part to not be as good as possible. Even if you're story is not great, write out the whole thing before you start recieving corrections. That will make sure you won't fall behind and you're story will be even better because you recieve better corrections.
  • 7. Overall, I think that with a few tweaks in terms of how we correct the papers, this project can be very good. It allows us to get to know other cultures and other kids at the same time as we do school work. Because of the interaction it could become a very fun way to get you're story corrected instead of just having the teacher correct it and just hand it back to you. It would also be very helpful because we would learn how to correct other people's papers better which would allow us to correct our own papers better in the future. Right now this is a fun project and with a few changes with the way we correct it could be a fun, and very helpful writing project.
  • The thing that I liked best about the project, was being able to get feedback about my writing from people around the world, but not always from the same person, so I was able to see different points of view on my story.
    
  • The thing that I liked least about the project was having to edit truly boring, poorly written, or stories that just didn't make sense, which I had no interest in. With these stories, I had a really hard time in giving feedback other than, for them just to re-write the story with a different idea. Another thing that I got frustrated with, was when weeks would pass by, but no one would ever give me any feedback, for the first 3-4 weeks, I had never received any feedback.
  • Throughout the project, as I read different peoples stories, and give them feedback on it, I always learned a little more about the culture, history, and family of the person who had wrote it. I was also able to see how different my life was with the people in Colorado and South Korea.
    
  • From the project, I think that my voice and word choice has become much better. I also learned how to vary the way my sentences and paragraph's started.
  • I think that the most challenging aspect of the project is dealing with deadlines, with three different time zones, with one a whole day ahead of the other two. Because of the three different time zones, it got very hard in giving and receiving feedback.
  • Keep up with deadlines, and just don't give feedback one week, or not update your draft another, just because you know it's online, and your teacher can't tell whether you did your homework or not.
  • I think that the 1001 Flatworld project was a new, fun way of writing a paper, that really didn't feel like a paper, while at the same time allowing us to learn about people around the world, their lives, culture, and family history.
  • I like the fact that we got to meet other people from different countries. The internet is a world wide web and this was a safe way to meet new people (but of course with much caution.) ALso, it saved paper! Go sustainability and enviornmental awareness! I also think that the extended periods of time were good.
  • I didn't like the fact that the extended time period was six weeks. That is a very long time. I couldn't focus intensely those six weeks. It was too spread out for me. I sometimes even forgot about what I wrote about or what point I was trying to get across because we as a english class would work on other assignments too at the same time.
  • To be honest, I wasn't really surprised at anything. I knew they were kids about our age. They are so much like us in many ways. They like the same things basically, except their favorite celebrities are from korean shows also known as K-dramas.
  • fully used all the different areas of writing (ex:grammar, sentence fluency) In english, we don't usually get to work so intensely on each criteria of writing. It really helped me learn about each area and aspect of writing and by editting other people's work, how much each area is vital to a good paper.
  • I think the most challenging aspect of the project was trying to edit other people's papers. When we were focusing on mechanics, I was very tempted to fix all the grammical errors that were seemingly blaring at me from the computer screen with the look of "FIX ME!." Also, we couldn't talk to them face to face. It is different typing critizim/praise without any emotion/facial expression attached.
  • Don't procrasinate. Try to genuinely give good feedback, and don't fool around in the class time you are given! Use your time management and orgainizing skills.
  • This project rocks. It was an awesome experience and I hope that it is done again. It was so cool and different from anything I've ever done before!
  • 1. What I liked best about the Flat World Story is that we were able to read stories written by people in other countries and states who were learning the same things as us. This allowed me to see how even with the same criteria, if you grow up in another region the things you are being taught can be interpreted quite differently.
  • 2. What I liked the least about the Flat World Stories were the deadlines. While the deadlines were pretty generous with time, they changed so much and the schedule sheet was hard to understand due to the different time zones. For me, it was just hard to tell what was due at what time.
  • 3. Something surprising I learned about the students at the other schools is that Mr. Burell's class in Korea spoke English pretty well. This surprised me, because in America learning at least one foreign language is emphasized, but not until the high school years, and the level of fluency in English the Korean students wrote with amazed me.
  • 4. The project affected my writing because I got to see an in-depth 'report' of what other people thought I could work on in my writing, and this sort of set a mental check-list in my mind so that whenever I write I see what the other students said I could fix and it keeps me from repeating these same mistakes.
  • 5. The most challenging aspect of the project was the commentary. While it was great to look at the constructive feedback the other students gave me, I sometimes had a hard time remembering that we were only giving advice on one aspect of the story at a time, and sometimes I just wanted to correct every little thing instead of focusing on the main theme for the week, like voice or sentence fluency.
  • 6. Advice I would offer other students is that if you just follow directions and turn everything in on time the experience will be an invaluable one.
  • 7. I think this project should be continued in the future. It was fun to do, and I became quite close with many of my Korean editors. In The Woman Warrior there was so much discussion about cultural clash and stuff like that, but in this project I found almost none of that. My parteners and I discovered that we share many similar interests and that it is always fun to hear something unexpected, something that no one in your usual world would say.
  • The only requirement for this project was that it had to relate back to our culture. I liked how it gave us that wide range of options to write pretty much whatever we wanted. My experiences in English consisted of mostly analytical papers on whatever text we were reading and maybe a short story now and then. It was great to go through the semester working on a big story writing project and learning the small things in a story that matter.
  • The feedback sheets were a bit repetitive. I'd write about how they could improve or change one thing or how well they did in a certain area, and essentially the same question would come up a few lines below. It felt like I was writing things over and over again and giving the writer a lot of nothing to read.
  • I'm guessing it's helped me, for one, to recognize the specific aspects of writing that I should focus on correcting. Looking at other people's papers and giving feedback on whatever we were working on that week helped me to understand and exercise recognizing the good and bad parts of a story in that one category. Following the feedback from other school to fix my own story in these particular categories further helped me exercise how to revise. Having other people read my story showed me things I didn't catch before. Overall, I think this project did help my abilities to revise my writing.
  • If you don't think you're getting sufficient feedback, ask other people whether it's someone else working on the project, a friend, your teacher, etc. And if someone gives you great feedback, ask them for more feedback later (after putting them on the star feedback list), maybe making a deal to give them feedback too. Keeping up with deadlines is also important. Seeing as how every week is something new, in order for you to get the most out of this project, namely getting as much (hopefully good) feedback from kids you normally couldn't get feedback from, you'll have to meet the deadlines.
  • Podcasts: While the time in class was plenty for most of the people in our class, I think there should be a more convenient way to work on it out of class for those who might have needed more time. (Me.) The podcasts, or at least mine, didn't fit in PAI or my flashdrive so I could only work on it in that one room we worked on them in class. Most of the times I tried to work on it in there, a class was working inside and even when there wasn't a class, there wasn't easy access to headphones. Maybe use the Language Lab? (Easy access to headphones and usually has computers free even when there is a class.)
  • 1. The best things that I liked about the project was that we were able to have multiple people read over our work. When this happened I was able to get tons of feedback to make my story better. The other part that i liked about this was that it was on the computer. I have realized that when my writing is on the computer it is defanitely better because i can get things done faster and easier.
  • 2. The thing that I liked the least was that we had to revise the story almost every night. It just got so repetitive reading the story, that i soon did not notice mistakes anymore because it was so routine, that instead of actually reading it, i would just memorize it and start reading it by memory and not what was on the actual page. That was pretty much the only thing that I did not like about it.
    
  • 3. I learned that different schools have different styles of writing, and definitely vocabulary. I noticed that the writing level between schools was very apparent because one school would have students who were not very good, and the other would have students that wrote excellent long thoughtful stories.
  • I think that the project affected my writing a lot since i was able to get all the feedback on what other people thought of my story. And since I knew what other people thought of it, i was able to change the parts that people did not like, and make the parts that they did like even better. So I think that this project greatly affected my writing in a more than beneficiary way.
  • 5. One of the most challenging parts of this project was trying to figure out who was supposed to be giving you feedback, and then making sure they did it. I had a few times where my person did not give me feedback. So i would always have to put their name on the wall, and then have to get it from them. It was all just a big hassle. In the end though, everything worked out.
  • 6. If i had to give advice to someone, it would be to always stay on top of what you had to do. Make sure that you got done early so you would have lots of time to focus on your essay. And go through it many times, keep reading it and looking at words that you think could be exchanged for bigger, and better words. I would also say that when giving advice, leaving a little bit of what you thought, or a little something that wasn't on the revision sheets that Mr. watson provided, is always a good thing because it just lets you say that last little bit that was on your mind.
  • 7. I dont really have anything else other to say than, this project was great, I definitely think that we should do more, and this was very helpful for me. It not only helped my writing to be a little bit better, but it let me interact on a global level, which i would have not been able to do otherwise without having done this project.
  • My favorite part about this project was looking at the profiles (the about me section) of students from other schools because It was fun to see what we had in common. It was very interesting learning about other kids from around the world.
  • I learned that the Koreans write very good stories that are very elaborate and nice. The Colorado students write stories about things that I can relate too like stories based off recent movies, ect.
  • e project affected my writing because each week there was a new theme for editing. These themes help my writing now because I think about sentance fluency and other themes now in my writing.
  • Really fun to do, I liked learning about other people from around the world and the stories they tell. Great and interesting experience!
  • I liked the fact that we got to compare and revise stories written by people in Korea and Colorado. By this i realized that we all think the same way, I thought their stories would be completely different and they would have a totally different way of thinking, but all the stories I read seemed to be something I could`ve written. This just goes to show that in the end, we all think the same way no matter where we live. I also enjoyed reading the stories about the kids from Korea who talked about the hard times that they suffered through during the Korean War. I was astonished by the things they wrote that they had to do to escape communism. It helped me learn about their culture and even though I learned all the facts about it in World Civ, it was completely different hearing it from a person`s point of view. It was as if someone real was telling me their story and that makes so much more of an impact on me then a textbook ever would.
  • Like I said in the first question, I loved reading about the experiences from the Korean War. It was depressing what they had to go through and tragedies they had to witness. The fact that it was told by someone actually living it made all the difference. I learned that all these experiences were real, they never have an impact on you unless you know someone who had gone through them and hear how hard they actually had it. One person talked about how they had to hold onto the top of the train and people wouldn`t hang on tight and fall off to their death when the train started moving. One person talked about how they had to sneak away from their home in the middle of the night to take a boat with other people also escaping their communist taken-over home.
  • I got a lot of great feedback because the people giving it to me were extremely reliable and took the time to give me thoughtful feedback. I definitly learned what a reader was looking for and how to make it the most appealing to them.
  • Writing my paper was the hardest part. Deciding on a topic took me a while and once I had it written, I changed it completely to a different idea that worked better for me. Writing the first draft and thinking of a topic for my story was the hardest. Once we got into communicating with the various students in Colorado and Korea, it seemed to flow a lot better for me.
  • Choose a good topic and put some thought into it. Really put 100% of your effort into it to make it interesting for your editor/reader. If you don`t give it your all, then you`ll get a boring or bad story that no one wants to read and all the people giving you feedback will have to spend a lot of time telling you how to make it better. If you don`t choose a good topic from the first draft, then from then on it will just make you frustrated so choose a good topic, stick with it and make sure your happy with it.
  • I liked that we got to learn about students living in places outside our state, even outside our country. It was interesting to read their stories, and learn about their cultures. All of them were friendly and it was a good experience.
  • My least favorite part was having to fill out the "comment rubrics." Many times, I would read through a story and then come to the rubric, but forget what the story was all about, then have to go back and read it all over again. I would have liked to comment on others' stories based on my first impressions and thoughts, rather than with the guide of a rubric. But for some of the students, if there was not the requirement of using the rubric, they would have given one word comments that wouldn't have been very helpful.
  • Hmmm...surprising. I guess I already knew this, but I saw how the other students deal with similar issues to us. In their stories, they wrote about topics and feelings that students here in Hawaii can also relate to. Nothing specific, but I did learn alot about the Korean culture through the many stories about family and war.
  • Honestly, I don't know how much it has affected my writing. I don't think that I've become a much better writer than I was before. I did, on the other hand, have more time in this project to focus on the details and descriptions in my story. The quality of description and word choice was probably better in this story than in my other hastily written papers.
  • The most challenging part of this project was generating an idea in the very beginning. Sometimes it takes many drafts to find the one story that just has the "it" factor; to find the topic that you feel you can write so much about. In relation to the actual wiki space and all, the worst part of the project was other students being on time with the feedback deadlines. It was hard for me to revise my drafts on time, when other people had not given me feedback when they were supposed to.
  • Let's see...advice...I suggest that you keep up with the deadlines of the project, and give feedback to all of your partners on time. Make sure you try to give constructive feedback as well. Being vague, for example, "it was good..." or "that part sounded weird" doesn't help the writer at all. Given good feedback on time will make them respect you even more, and be more willing to give you good feedback as well.
  • think that we definitely had enough time to work on this writing assignment. It didn't seem so much like "work." This project was a new, fun, and different way of story writing and editing.
  • Our class did a project on a wiki where we wrote stories that told a little about our culture. It was a pretty fun project because we would post our story and other students from different schools in South Korea and Colorado would comment on our story and tell us how to make it better. We would do the same. After about 6 weeks, the project came to an end and other students would choose the best stories.
  • The only thing that I didn't like was when people didn't comment on our story and we would have nothing to revise our draft with.
  • Altogether it was very fun because we were working with other students that had totally different cultures from us and we learned about their cultures through their stories.
  • --- I thought it was inventive and original. And it was good to see how other people wrote about their own cultures.
  • ---- Many people weren't taking this project seriously, and I thought that this would have been better if more countries participated. This project didn't look like "international" but rather English-based cultures even though half of them were Koreans.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    ----- I didn't know that many people are actually interested in and good at writing.
  • ----- I never wrote stories of my own not even in my middle school English classes so this was a new experience. I learned how to write stories using many imageries and while doing revisions, I realized that I have been a bad writer.
    
  • ----- This wasn't well-organized. It was frustrating to ask teachers to figure out what's going on;
  • 6. Offer some advice to future participants.
    ----- Take it seriously and read other people's writings as many as you can
  • 7. Other comments.
    ----- I think this project can improve greatly if there are more organizations and other cultures other than American and Korean.
    
  • The part that was most interesting to me was that we could communicate with other students from across the world.
  • I didn't really like when I had to peer review other students. I just want to save up the excitement and release it all when I get to read their finished ones. It's like reading spoilers when we peer review.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    Honolulu is a great school with one of the smartest kids our age I've met. Also nice.
  • It made me learn about the different styles I had to write in.
  • 5. Describe the most challenging aspect of the project.
    The thing that was tiring was that I had to get everything handed in, in a certain amount of time. Sure this is school, but writers shouldn't really have due dates.
  • Make sure that you study sentence patterns and learn how to apply it to writing.
  • have fun
  • It was interesting that lots of schools from different countries joined the project.
  • There were some stories which were short and made no sense. It sucked to read them and write a whole page of answers for his/her story. It was a waste of time. 

  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?

     

    I didn't have anything suprising;;;
  • It made me try other different styles of writing. As I read lots of stories written by different people, I learned a lot.
  • To find a subject which reflects the Korean culture.
  • Write about something interesting and don't make it BORING
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    1. What did you like best about the project and why? Of course, I liked writing my own story and getting it read by people from all the world the best. It was my first time publishing my story on the internet, and I liked it.
  • Giving feedbacks to people who had such a boring story, and not getting feedbacks on the deadline.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)? Students in Hawaii write some cool stories. Our teacher has been telling us how nice the school in Hawaii is. As I was reading their story, I found out it was true.
  • Yes, especially getting feedbacks and revising my story considering the feedback helped me improve.
  • 5. Describe the most challenging aspect of the project. Giving feedbacks based on the rubrics. Since I'm not an expert, It was kind of hard giving feedbacks.
  • 6. Offer some advice to future participants. If you think your story is weak and uninteresting, change it when you can.
  • Please give feedbacks till the deadline.
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     1.It made me think about writing more carefully and accuratly. Also taught me the importance of editing editing my work and other people's work.
  • The project was too long. After the 4 th editing I didn't know what to edit and it kept getting complicated. Everything else was okay.
  • 3.They were good writers. Some of them wrote like real writers and made me think of it like a movie.
  • 4. It gave me some good stradegy for writing . It deffinetly gave me a positive effect.
  • 5. Correcting other people's work because it is hard to correct things that I am not even sure of.
  • 6. This is a good project and gives alot of advices in writing.
  • 7.  It was fun and helped me in writing. This will help me in my future days I hope.
  • I could read various stories and it was interesting to read other students' stories.
  • We gave our feedback based on 10 questions and we wrote like a page for feedback, But some other students from Denver wrote 3 lines of feedback that doesn't really say anything but "you are good" or "you are on the right track." I really hated that. I just felt like I don't want to give them feedback.

  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?

     

    The surprising thing was that other students really wrote well and showed their own culture. But sometimes I was disappointed because even though they are native speaker and pure American, their grammars were wrong and sometimes even spelling was wrong.
  • I think it actually helped my writing and I think I improved a lot. I compared my writing with some other students and I edited mine. Actaully sharing the stories helped my writing to improve.
  • Challening aspect was the culture. 1001 tales are based on our own culture, but sometimes Denver people or Hawaii people don't understand our culture and says bad thing about it. So it was kind of hard to explain our culture.
  • Be specific!!! Be organized!
  • What I liked about his project the most was how we got to interact with people from different countries and got peer help from them. Without this help my flat world story could've been much worse.
  • What I like least was how we had to do more then five drafts in a couple of days. It was difficult for me to catch up because of all my other homework.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    I learned more about their culture through their writing.
  • I think this project affected my writing the most in voice and ideas. Most of the time, I only cared about the grammar or how the words looked, but this time I focused on how to make my writing interesting and most culturally interactive as possible.
  • The most challenging part of this project was the organization of it. Later on it got good but in the beginning I didn't know what to do at all. I had trouble with turning my drafts in because the times for Korea and everywhere else was all different.
  • Turn it in on time.
  • The most impressive thing was to talk and reply to the foreign students. In the first semester, we had to exchange our stories or essays to one of our classmates. But then during this project, we were able to reply to the other school students, and whom we don't know anything about it.
  • It was good to meet and reply to the other students but the problem was to upload every new drafts each week. And it made me headache because I wasn't that good at doing computer and the wikispaces were hard to control. I had to change like for over 2 times to make my drafts organized.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    I had some low self-esteem that made me I wasn't as good as other students who are going to American schools. But after revising the other school students story, I had some confident that I might be better than those kids who are going to the schools in the States. However, it was surprising to see some of the writings which looked like a work of professional.
  • I think it improved a lot. Since there were lots of advisers who were helping me to write better story, I fixed my bad habits. For example, putting 'really' or other adverbs which don't really needed.
  • The most challenging thing was to make the story as interesting as I can possibly make. It was hard to make my story interesting because, other people says my story wasn't that good but to me it was really interesting.
  • Its confusing to organize the works in the wikispaces, but its fun to share your thoughts and writings in the wikispaces with other school students.
  • Fun to do those things but also it gave me some headaches.
  • The best think I likes about the project was that we could communicate with other students around the world. It was also a good idea to read the stories of students who were in different countries.
  • The least thing I liked about this project was that we had to go on to the website and we had to write reflections every week.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    It was surprising to see that even though there were on the opposite side of the world, they had the same ideas as us and there wasn't much of a difference. Also that some students had ideas that were not worth writing for.
  • I think it affected my writing by making it better, because we had the chance to use the aspects of writings as we wrote reflections for other students.
  • The most challenging was having to constantly change our story because of the new aspects to reading that we were asked to write about.
  • For the future, if we were to do this again, I would write the reflections earlier so that we don't have to go on to the computer every single week.
  • I like how students all over the world are interacting with each other and how we can discuss things. It's very interesting and cool at the same time. We can see how good everybody is a writing and what good writing looks like. American style writing and Korean style writing.
  • I didn't like how other students in America didn't do their revisions because that means I can't see what kind of people they are. I like to be social with students I don't know because I love meeting new people. I especially didn't like how the students in America didn't reply to my story because then I don't know what to fix.
  • 3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
    Something that surprised me was the different ideas other countries had. Some talked about sports, some talked about their troubles, some talked about the problems in American society. It was fun.
  • I saw how a bad story differs from a good story. It shows examples and how we can improve them.
  • The most challenging aspect of this project was following the due dates. If you didn't do your homework on time then the person you were supposed to reply to would have to wait a whole week before getting a reply to their story.
  • Don't forget to do your homework!
  • fun.
  • My favorite part about this project was the fact that we, as writers can make up stories from our own head instead of reading a story someone else invented.
    
  • The least favored factor was the part where there was requirements such as we must include our cultures.
  • I learned that everyone writes totally different stories from anyone else. No one had the same thought. And I liked the Korean stories a lot.
  • I am not quite sure, but I think I improved slightly on the styles.
  • The most challenging parts were choosing the names, titles, characters, and thinking up an original story.
  • Think outside the box while being in the box. Look around you ad notice the obvious for they are the society you live in.
  • I thought that we should have more time to add pictures or anything that made this more "pretty". And better feed backs will be nice.
  • I like the best that we were able to actually make up a story of our own because I thought we wouldn't do such things like creating stories when we would come up to high school. I think it was a good experience to have. Also, by this "Peer Editing" things we did I think I was able to somehow improve my reading skills and how I should respond to another person's story.
  • For me it was hard for me to change something in my story because there was something that made it very weird and unnatural. Also, fixing the drafts until the final was very hard because I didn't know what I have wrote wrong since I wrote it. So I had to ask many people if they could look at mine.
  • hey are actually very hard working in this project, I think more than us. They take most of the peer edits that others leave very seriously and tries to make their story even better. They are also, very friendly because I actually contacted some of the other school people so that we could edit each others.
    
  • I think I was able to become more creative. Also, recording our stories was the best thing that actually made my writing better because after reading it once I could see and listen what parts were unnatural and nonsense. But I don't think I was able to improve my vocabulary.
  • To change my story from unnatural to natural because many of the concepts in my story were old.
  • Try to be creative on the things you really experienced. Try to be active in peer editing and try to find good examples that you can look at.
  • HAD FUN..?HAVE FUN..!
  • I liked the idea that we could work with many other countries with many other cultures. We could see what the others think and what the other's life is by their stories and we could communicate with them. I also liked the idea that we could write a story with no topic but what we want to write about my country which made me proud. Also this was my first time to do this kind of thing in my life so it was new.
  • Even I did liked to work with other people that I don't know, it wasn't working well for some ways. The biggest problem at first was the Colorado students. Even I gave them long feed backs, they were so lazy. They wrote just like good job, most of the times they didn't follow the instruction. Also even they wrote rude comments, because we don't know them they won't stop. In someways, I didn't like that others can read my story and say it is good or bad because it was just the way I grew up. -the teachers grading only.
  • The cultures of them and their personalities. I thought that America's colony was really bad, but there were some good things as well.
  • I think I improved in many ways, by getting 'honest' feedbacks from many other people
  • is just challenging because we have to compare and improve my writing
  • I think we should give good feedbacks and respect others if we work with someone who we don't know
  • I liked it and it was interesting experience thanks mrBurell
  • The best thing I liked about this project was that we could contact other school students and read their stories. They were some great stories that I enjoyed reading. It was interesting to read students' stories who lived in other part of the world.
  • Students who didn't give good feedbacks was part where I least liked about this project. I wanted good feedback to improve my story and wanted to hear how my story sounded to others, but not getting good feedbacks was hard to tell how my story sounded to others.
  • The surprising things I learned was that even though students in other school are native speaker, I think our school had better writers. I am not trying to be rude, but we had more students with better stories that told about culture.
  • Using different styles of writing helped my writing to improve. Also, hearing how my story sounds to others helped me to explain better so everyone can understand, not only me.
  • The most challenging part of the project was to find a story to write that will show Korean culture in someway. Once I got the story to write, it was easy to edit, but finding a story to write was very hard.
  • Finding an interesting topic for your story will keep the readers interested and give better feedbacks.

  • You get to read other stories from other culture. Also, the good thing about this is when you work hard on your story, you'll get to read others story for reward. Actually, it isn't a reward but still it feels good when you write good stories and others read yours and they know that you wrote the story. So it's like if I tell you one story, then I'll listen one story from other students. It is also like exchanging stories.
  • Though there are lots of stories that are written by other students, you don't get to read theirs carefully since you have to concentrate on writing your own story.
  • That their wrting styles and their stories are kind of similar to each other if they're in same school. I bet some of our students in KIS might have very similar stories.
  • As I revise my stories several times (more than I ever did before) my writing skills seems improving but on the last few revisions, I didn't really make big changes to my story because after several revisions, I thought my story was fairly okay. So I couldn't really make good, good revision.
  • When you have to make revisions at the last few changes, when you really have nothing to improve more.
  • I enjoyed getting feedback from students from other schools. Because we're from different schools, and different countries, it's exciting to hear what others have to say about your story.
  • Probably how I was stuck with writers who didn't update anything or had stories that were barely stories.
  • The other schools had some amazing stories.
  • With/without the project, I could have probably gotten to that final product. Some people gave good feedback, but a lot of people didn't.
  • The most challenging part of this was to give so much feedback to people and following that outline for answering questions. It really consumed a LOT of time, so I couldn't focus on my writing. 
  • Write like you're the reader. There's a lot of stories that I've read that don't care about the audience. Some were unorganized and very boring.
  • It's a good project, but only for those that get constructive feedback. Without good feedback, this will become a mess.
  • -What I liked about the project was that I was able to think back about the Korean culture and make story out of it. It was also interesting to see other people from the US how they write and what they like. Most of all I enjoyed what people wrote and tasting their creativity.
  • For some stories it wasn't so serious and people made joke stories rather than good cultural stories.
  • -From other schools I found many cultural differences which I admired a lot. Unlike Korean schools that I've been to, students from different school really seemed enjoying their life. I could see it with the story their telling.
  • -Mostly it effected creative writing and review my skill of writing.
  • As I was writing my story, I felt my knowledge of Korea was some what lacking. This made me feel like I should know more and more about my own culture.
  • -Getting deep through your own culture is very interesting. Also observing other culture is fun so enjoy writing a story.
  • I liked the whole idea of this project because it was a certain way for us to connect to students in other countries, and realize how either far off we are behind or front we are then them
  • I did not like the fact that we were being heavily graded on this, and that we were put too much into stress about publishing, and editing.  
  • I've learned few things from these other schools, such as being more careful while writing, as when I saw these people's history in wiki, there were about 20 times editting.
  • guess it was more of a testing, then writing for your own enjoyment, which I could not write in more of a less stressed out way...
  • nitely making the writing due as your told to, and following the peer edits, which some of them was difficult to under
  • Just do what you're told to do.
  • I liked the fact that we were working with people living outside our country, the fact that we were working on a same project, with a same goal, communicating and supporting each other through internet.
  • Time lapses because they just made it really hard for us to work together. Other than that, I liked everything. And I know we can't really do anything about the time lapses, at least for now.
  • I was surprised (not about students from other school) that I was able to work with the native students in the states. This is a bit personal but living in Korea, I never knew about the public schools in the states. This project gave me an opportunities to see the native English public school students, and I was amazed how I can work with them.
    
  • The 6 Traits thing really improved my writing a lot. Also, reading some other students' comments helped me a lot. I learned that after all, it's the audience that all matters.
  • The most challenging aspect of this project was that we had to make a story while thinking about the writing, style, voice, and stuff. It was really hard to make a mature story.
  • Just have fun with this, and don't be rude to other students! Other than that, do your best, think about maturity, and have fun!
  • I just really liked the project. That's all.
  • I just liked the fact that we are working on such a massive project with so many other students with diverse backgrounds.
  • I disliked the organsation of it all. I understand this was the first attempt, but things all seemed very rushed and it was all over the place.
  • I was quite surprised at how some students approached other students. We are all freshmens/sophomores at high school, and most of us have that 'normal' attitude towards our school work. But many didn't seem to have the manners and etiquette that all of us deserve.
  • quite frankly, this writing project was a great experience, but sadly i don't think it improved my writing. The rubrics weren't really towards the improvement of writing, but more of a 'time-saver' for the project.
  • he peer-review. By far the hardest bit of the project.
  • Go hard, its worth your time. Show the world who you are as a writer. And you never know, what luck might come your w
  • This project was the best at the point we can express our ideas in terms our cultures and share it with other students from around the world. It was also a good experience to see how others wrote their stories.
  • I liked the least was the lack of participation of leaving comments and peer review. For once, never got more than a two feedback at a time, which was not enough for me.
  • There were brilliant writers. Their writing fascinated me, and taught me so much. There were fresh and new ideas in the school over there. I could know there were a lot of diversity of writers in other schools as well.
  • This writing project had much better efficiency and productivity than what we had doing before to improve our writings. This just improved me as a publisher, and the writer.
  • It was a competition of getting published. It was a lot of stress
  • Use your time well
  • it was fun

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