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Welcome the Bridging the Gap, a provincial project designed to improve students writing, technology and collaborative skills. Below you will find a description of the project, as well as a time line of events. We hope you enjoy the site and visit it often to observe the progess our students are making in their educational journey.

Bridging the Gap Project Outline Participants: 34 middle school students from Keswick Ridge and Jacquet River Middle Schools Project: Collaborative Creative Writing Project Project Duration:  Roughly 9 weeks. (Including 2 pre-project assignments and the 6 weeks of writing and 1 week of publishing) // Technology: //Power Point, Movie Maker, Microsoft Word and Publisher//,// Notebook Software 10, Wiki Space, Bridgit, and LuLu.com Assignment Description: You are being presented with a unique learning opportunity and challenge. Over the next 9 weeks, you will work collaboratively with peers from Jacquet River and Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick to create an original piece of fictional writing. This opportunity will allow you to learn more about our partnering school and community. It will also provide you will the chance to improve your writing, technology and collaborative skills. You will have the pleasure of using a wide variety of technology to create a story, which will be published through a website called LuLu.com. Once published, you and your parents will have the opportunity to purchase a copy of the Keswick Ridge/Jacquet River Anthology. This anthology will contain all six stories created during the project. It will be an opportunity for you to get your creative juices flowing, and work with 5 other New Brunswick students to create the best piece of writing anyone has ever read. The only question left is  ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE? Time Line: ·  Week 1 : You will work within your school groups to create an 2 minute introduction. This introduction will help all group members get to know one another a little better. It will also be a representation of our class, school, and community. ·  Week 2: You will participate in an on-line pre-writing brainstorming session in order to select the main focus for your fictional piece of writing. It will also allow all group members to generate ideas, which will help guide the direction you take when writing this story. This will be your first opportunity to collaborate within your partnering group. ·  Week 3: Groups in Keswick Ridge will begin writing stories. This will be placed on the project wiki by Friday at dinner. ·  Week 4: Groups in Jacquet River will print off Keswick Ridge’s beginning and work within the school groups to write the next section of the story. A new story will not be created, rather it will be a continuation of the story already begun. The students in Jacquet River must continue on to what Keswick Ridge Students have already begun. This continuation must be uploaded onto the wiki by Friday at lunch. ·  Week 5: Keswick Ridge prints off the story and continues building. ·  Week 6: Jacquet River prints off the new additions and continues the plot. ·  Week 7: Keswick Ridge continues the story. ·  Week 8: Jacquet River creates the ending to 6 very dynamic, intriguing, exciting stories. ·  Week 9: Any editing, fixing up will take place. A cover and about the authors page will be created and the stores will be placed on LuLu.com We will also have a final session to read the finished products as they appear on the wikis and provide positive feedback in the discussion panels of the pages. When working in collaborative projects, such as this one, it is important to show respect for all participants by taking the work seriously; participating actively and politely; and staying on task. It is important that all deadlines are respected. This is a provincial project and must follow provincial guidelines and timetables. It is therefore very crucial that you manage your time wisely and work cooperatively within your groups. It is also important to remember that since this is an educational project, all actions, comments, and work must be appropriate for school and comply with all educational policies. Everything you do during this project will be monitored by Ms. Harquail, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Young, Mr. Whipple and members of the Department of Education. We hope you are all excited to enter into this opportunity. It is a wonderful way to expand your skills and knowledge, while creating friendships with students in other areas of the province. We know that you will have adventures as you create many wonderful and exciting stories. Please enjoy the journey and speak with me if you have any questions or concerns.

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