African Storybook Project #1: The African Storybook project and me!

The African Storybook Project is a wonderful Literacy website with a wide range of stories from Grades 1-3 learners in a multitude of African languages. Visit www.africanstorybook.org to see the amazing spread. The stories and folktales have beautiful illustrations, can be read online or they can be downloaded as PDFs and made into hand-held books. Best is that the African Storybook Project is OER and uses Creative Commons licensing which enables the books to be adapted if so desired.

I was privileged to be involved with this project for a couple of years, creating and running digital storytelling courses for teachers in South Africa and then Africa in order to populate the website. In this post I want to link to some the posts I wrote about this memorable experience for the SchoolNet blog. 

• The free, online African Storybook Project’s 2014 Digital Storytelling course for teachers in Africa has been completed
• The African Storybook website and Grade 3 students - using the story circle idea
• Grade 2 students love reading the stories on the African Storybook website
• An exciting, free digital storytelling course and writing opportunity for educators starting 21 July. Please sign up…
• Teachers please sign up for a free ‘Digital Storytelling for the African Storybook Project 2014’ online course starting on 21st July…
• 10 takeaways from the Multilingual Resources for Early Literacy Development Symposium on 3rd and 4th June
• Update on the exciting African Storybook Project…
• Teacher selected to accompany the African Storybook Project team to Nairobi!
• The African Storybook Project downloadable brochure
• More about the African Storybook project and the free online course starting on 15th April. Please join us..
• An exciting, free digital storytelling course and writing opportunity for South African educators. Please sign up…
• Welcome to the African Storybook project