Lahore, Guadalajara, Castlemaine

What do these three places have in common? At first glance, almost nothing - situated on three different continents, a small town and two large cities, three languages, two religions (at least)... yet all three schools share our Writers' club, and this week we at Castlemaine North Skyped with Lahore and Guadalajara as a way of introduction.

You may have noticed I am banging on about the Writers' club a fair bit. I really believe in it's capacity to link students meaningfully around the world. I also believe it offers something different from other global projects (that I know of) because of it's lack of defined structure - the only commonality is that it's about writing. It's designed so that the kids take ownership over it, and I summarised why I think it is an important addition to the more structured global projects around on a slide that obviously connected with one of the audience at the TLV conference recently:

In fact, rather than writing more, I might leave it at that. We are taking our first steps into global citizenship, and this model of student centered interactions is the one I'm investing my energy in. More schools in more countries would be a good next step, as would be the presence of authors and others connected with the writing interest.

A science club is the next goal. I already know willing scientists, ready to work with students online - I just lack the students from other schools.