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[pastafarian]

Many who have worked in hagwons or elementary schools have likely had the joy of reading some mangled and/or outlandish stories in the form of student journals. This blog compiles journal entries and short stories written by Korean elementary students. http://bestesljournals.wordpress.com/category/richard/ is worth a look.

If you have something you'd like to contribute send to [email protected]

This blog is purely for amusement.

[ddeubel]

This is a great effort and commendable. However, I think the most important point of publishing these is to share / get readers and others interested.

For EFL, that means contextualizing the stories and that really means "Pictures". You need some support for readers and pictures help them read and have meaning bloom.

So I'd suggest a few sites like http://tikatok.com or http://tarheelreader.org where your students can write up these same stories with pictures. Then publish the link in the journal or embed the book. If your students are competent enough Photo Story 3 is a free microsoft tool that also allows for the same and with music.

We've had a few contest with bookmaking/storymaking on EFL Classroom 2.0. and it is always a delight to see students writing and more importantly publishing and learning by reading others...

Cheers,

DD
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