Ficlets: collaborative stories

I think this also came from May's DevelopingTeachers's newsletter...

Ficlets ("a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world") looks like a website (currently in Beta) you could have your learners write on directly as a project.

They explain:

Once you've written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel. In this manner, you may know where the story begins, but you'll never guess where (or even if!) it ends.

Or you could take the idea and have your learners publish their (collaborative) stories on your own class blog (or elsewhere, eg. as posters on your classroom walls).

On the Ficlets site, you have a maximum of 1,024 characters for your stories. On your own site you could try mini-sagas, with a fixed word length (or limit -- ie. exactly 100 words, or "not more than" 100 words).