The YWP blog

Slide your mouse across this collage and experience a digital story -- a slice, really -- of a recent trip to China by young Vermont musicians. For more about digital story telling, look at the quick discussion below and go to ywpvt.net -- YWP's Teacher Site -- where there is a growing library of teacher-created exercises in writing and digital learning.

This collage was created using vuvox which is a very cool site where you can, remotely, build a flash collage using digital images, video and sound. It is an extraordinary tool that helps students think of their projects in different ways and helps students think about the overall presentation of their project. BACKGROUND The Young Writers Project worked closely with the students in the Vermont Youth Orchestra when they went to China on a performing tour in the summer of 2007. For more about the trip and the project, including links to the original blog, publication of student work and student reaction, click here. For more about the concept of using this and other multi-media tools in the writing classroom, click the next page. --geoff gevalt