30 days of writing ideas #3: A request to share a true story based on Internet-sharing from Alan Levine

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: magenta;"><b style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">___</i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">_________________________________________</i></b></span><br /><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b style="background-color: white;">If you are a South African teacher reading this we would like to tell you about a writing opportunity and a free online writing course that is coming up with SchoolNetSA  as part of the amazing <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/30-days-of-writing-1-welcome-to-african.html" target="_blank">African Storybook project</a> and website that is being developed for Africa. Our 30 days of writing posts will lead up to giving more information about this. WATCH THIS SPACE!</b></i></span><br /><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">__________________________________________________________</b></span><br /><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alan Levine is someone I have come to appreciate when it comes to writing ideas - in fact I would call him a digital writing guru! His two wikis, <i>Cogdogroo</i> (found at <a href="http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/" title="http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com">http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com</a>) and <i>50+ Web2 ways to tell a story</i> found at <a href="http://50ways.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">http://50ways.wikispaces.com/ </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> give loads of wonderful ideas for writing. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Purely by chance I came across this video of his on YouTube made in January 2013 asking people to… <i>(he can say it better than I can</i>) ...</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Yes, it is another call for what I call "True Stories of Open Sharing" - examples of people's experiences of unexpected outcomes when they share something openly online. I will be building a new collection at  </span><a href="http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/truestori..." style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/truestori...</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - and if you have one to share, either make it a video response here or submit a URL for a video to </span><a href="http://bit.ly/truestories13" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://bit.ly/truestories13</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you go to Alan’s blog <a href="http://stories.cogdogblog.com/" title="http://stories.cogdogblog.com/">http://stories.cogdogblog.com/</a> you’ll find a collection of these stories to listen to.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_dl1TFRbWY0hohjLofaF57kU1czBeSR2XGhWRkNiv-yGFBvWoTFTTiVZFj00j3mrntm4OBoLx_EhbOh-_IHqui3DajSsTR55M_fuUIh0oBYZ4cV7wWkYRmBDTrWyxT4N-0KhXijuY-0/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0yDqQ62xI_HWvnyBl44I2XgoI8g9IKmgaUQgKvCayuT5V-pu_n-fUBp8sYq3VXJG6QFLo7klwszGVi4R0ZjMgOSxd64X7RJh4Qk_VwbNM2MM44M1be-wf-Oi4zxs9v-lyK76Iv2zR7o/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen to what he says on the video below and then decide….</span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MB7eAGS5_0U" width="420"></iframe></div>

30 Days of Writing Writing 30 days of writing ideas #3: A request to share a true story based on Internet-sharing from Alan Levine

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