In light of the recent events at Virginia Tech, experts are advising parents and educators how to best deal with the impact of the tragedy on students. Younger children often exhibit feelings by drawing pictures while older students may express their thoughts in essays, stories, journals, letters and meaningful Internet creations.
The team at AwesomeStories is working on a project which will feature national student responses to the Virginia Tech tragedy. It will follow the format of chapters 12 and 13 of the site's September 11 story which links to student-created pictures, essays, journals and stories at the Library of Congress.
Educators, students and parents are invited to send student-created materials to AwesomeStories where every item, whether class-produced or individually created, will be digitized. The story, featuring the students' work, will be available online as soon as the materials can be processed. Thereafter, the entire archive of original work will be sent to the Library of Congress.
If students have responded by creating web sites, commemorating what has happened at Virginia Tech, and you would like us to feature those sites, please send us the links with: (1) a brief description of the site; (2) your school name and location; and (3) the creators' names and ages.
The project is intended to:
- Give educators and parents a positive way to talk about these tragic events;
- Give students a place where their expressions of support, fear and sadness can be displayed to the rest of the country;
- Create an online memorial, profiling student-created materials, to honor faculty and students who died at Virginia Tech.
Please send hard-copy versions of your materials to:
AwesomeStories Internet Productions
990 Monroe, N.W.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503-1423
Please email web site links to: editor@awesomestories.com
Our story will be online as soon as we can process the submitted materials.