Video conference with Oliver Phommavanh and Deborah Abela (combined)

Australian Curriculum: English sub-strand: Literature – Responding to literature

Session 2 includes a presentation of students’ work, which was sent to the authors, Oliver Phommavanh and Deborah Abela, and a revision of the ways in which each author approaches the task of developing an engaging plot. The authors discuss and highlight features of students’ work. (Note that the network video recording is of low quality and 23 minutes, 40 seconds in duration.)

After watching have the class add their own comments to the features demonstrated.

Class wiki and podcast

Australian Curriculum: English sub-strand: Literature – Creating literature

Assist students in publishing their work via a class wiki and podcast stories to share.

Students will: Develop a class wiki of Thai-riffic! short stories and podcast these linking the audio files to the wiki.