I just read about this which I think is cool. To celebrate composition in all its forms, we [The National Council of Teachers of Writing] are inviting diverse participants –students, teachers, parents, grandparents, service and industrial workers, managers, business owners, legislators, retirees, and many more — to submit a piece of writing to the National Gallery of Writing.
Basically, they’re trying to get everyone to contribute a piece of writing, organized in local Galleries, to a National Gallery. Backed by the Verizon foundation and many of the national educational groups (see below), they’re thinking that such a project is one heck of a writing prompt for students and everyone else. Basically, what have you got to say and how well can you say it? I notice that there has been no effort to include homeschoolers and that no homeschoolers have made any effort to get involved.
826 Project
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Bar Association (ABA)
Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA)
Google Docs
International Reading Association (IRA)
National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL)
National Council of Social Studies (NCSS)
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
National Writing Project (NWP)
Newseum
I see also that there is a movement to create a National Writing Day on October 20th (ie a bill before Congress).
Does anyone have thoughts on this? I’ll discuss it with the Time4Writing.com people (they’re one of the top writing schools online for homeschoolers) to see if they want to get involved in any way. They might use it as a writing prompt, they might think of building a whole course around, or they might think that it’s way too much distraction to devote any time to it.
I notice that the National Gallery of Writing website has no graphics available for those of us that want to post about it. They do have a twitter account which appears to be the only way to communicate with them. Very novel. Original. OK, it’s weird. But they’re trying. (Actually, it’s a broadcast only twitter account).
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July 18th, 2009 at 4:17 am
There are other great ideas like this out there. For instance:
The Remembering Site – The Remembering Site makes it easy for anyone, anywhere to write and publish their life story and add to it as life unfolds. Created by Sarah McCue.
Story Corp – by NPR, Our mission is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening.
Since 2003, over 50,000 people have shared life stories with family and friends through StoryCorps. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind.