Flat+Stanley

Flat Stanley Creative Writing Project! Eric Walter

Description: Flat Stanley is a collaborative project where the participants take a small paperdoll (Stanley) around with them, photographing excursions as Stanley travels throughout the world. For our portion, the Flat Stanley project was used to incorporate skills we have been refining in this couse, including digital photography (as well as manipulation of said photos), creative writing, Wiki-formatting, and continued practice with Audacity.

Skills I Improved: I believe that the largest gains I made through this project were learning how... "patient"... I have to be with Wikispaces. I also continue to enjoy the use of Audacity and its abilities when adding voiceovers and whatnot to work.

Reflection: Flat Stanley. What can I say. In regards to the portion of this involving using WikiSpaces, it was a bit of a headache. The concepts behind the website are excellent, but the sheer rage is would sometimes induce (oh, I want to go to the next line, so I hit "enter," and everything I just typed disappears... or, even better, every single formatting effect I put into place would randomly change and/or turn off each time I added something new) take a lot away from its current utility. Looking toward the future, however, when they perhaps refine WikiSpaces a little more, know what it is capable of doing definitely piques my interest in future usage. As for the Flat Stanley project itself, I cannot honestly say I would do it again in the future. It just is not the sort of project I would be able to justify including in my middle school math curriculum.

Links: Flat Stanley Main Page My Flat Stanley Page