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Simple but Elegant – Our New Story Blog
October 7, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
Sometimes the simplest ideas in teaching truly do produce the most glorious results. Our Director of Diversity approached me in August with an idea — she was bringing the marvelous “In Our Family” portrait exhibit to our school for a month, and for the opening evening she was hoping to include a family storytelling component where participants could have the opportunity to tell a family story, record it, and burn it onto a CD. She was picturing stories along the lines of the amazing StoryCorps project so many of us have grown to love during our morning commutes with NPR on the radio. Better yet, I suggested, why not open the storytelling opportunity up to teachers, staff, students, parents, anyone in our community and put all of the stories on our own blog/podcast?
The results? We’ve been working on the project for a little less than a month, the opening of the Exhibit was this past Friday, and you can click right here to hear the unbelievable, poignant, funny, touching stories our MCDS Community Members have shared. We now plan to continue the story recording process during Grandparents Day and throughout the year.
