Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Summit 5th graders Participate in Project #TWIMA

Two 5th grade students at Summit Elementary have been taking part in Project #twima. #TWIMA is an acronym that stands for "The World is my Audience."  

The project was started by Mr. Smith, a teacher in Ohio, who began having his own class create books using iBooks Author or the Book Creator iPad App.  He wanted to show elementary students that writing is for more than just "the teacher" - there is an audience who is interested in what they write outside of the classroom, outside of their town, and even outside of their state.  


That initial project then evolved to students and teachers outside of his own school.  The goal of this current #twima project is to create a poetry anthology collaboratively across the United States. So far over 170 classrooms have joined! Poems have been collected from all 50 states as well as several countries around the world. 


A poem representing Idaho was written by Quincy Brown and Lily Farnsworth.  Their teacher, Maggie Stump first heard about the project on Twitter.  She thought it would be a wonderful opportunity for her class.  Quincy and Lily also worked with their TAG teacher, Miriam Brown to learn several poetry techniques.  They wrote several poems before deciding which to submit to the iBook.  The iBook is free and available for download!


Here is a copy of the poem that will be published:




For more information about Project #TWIMA click  HERE.

To download a copy of the book from iTunes click HERE!