Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Ides of March are upon us. Last month FoldingStory was picked up by ReadWriteWeb and TheNextWeb and was featured in a news feed along with stories about Apple, Baidu, Google, Twitter, and Firefox. So keep folding those stories, you're in good company!
Announcements
A FOLDINGSTORY LESSON PLAN
We’ve received several requests from forward-thinking teachers who would like to integrate social storytelling into the classroom, and we were delighted when blogger/educator Kristian Still experimented using FoldingStory with his year 10 English Functional Skills class. He wrote up a great step-by-step guide and conclusion for trying this in your own classrooms. If you’ve tried this in your classroom please let us know how it went, we would love to hear from you!
A NEW MILESTONE
We’re pleased to announce that in the last month NixonBlack was the first user to reach 1,000 folds and also 1,000 votes! We would also like to give a shout out to MoralEnd for being the only other user to reach this level.
WORD COUNT TRENDS
Inspired by the number of folds adding up, we decided to take a look into the expanding FoldingStory universe to see if we could find something of sociological value in the words used by all of you folders. In time we hope to uncover some interesting trends, but for now here’s a revealing look at the top 10 most referenced proper nouns used since we launched the site last October: 1. Christmas (51 folds) 2. Jesus (27) 3. George (25) 4. Jackson (24) 4. Jack (24) 6. Santa (23) 7. Sarah (21) 8. Bob (20) 9. China (19) 9. Starbucks (19)
1,000 USERS OR BUST
We’ve found that the more diverse the authors of a story, the more interesting the final stories turn out to be. Therefore, in an effort to keep the collective ideas flowing and the stories as fresh as possible, we’re currently on a push to break the threshold of 1,000 FoldingStory users. So please be sure to tell your friends and share with the rest of the world how much fun we’re having over here at FoldingStory! Use the links at the bottom of the page to Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.
Featured Fold & Story
This month’s Featured Fold was submitted by MoralEnd, whose “Waxen Queen” offers her royal subjects no explanation: “…and performed ‘Rent’ in Spanish. Her Edict demanded that the still life perform all theater works in Spanish because, well…she was the ‘Waxen Queen,’ she didn’t need reasons…” Unless you’re too busy conducting still life Spanish theatre yourself, read the full story here. Want to check out more great folds and see how yours stack up? Check out our Top Folds page.
Proctologists, penguins, and naked strangers conspire to keep up with the Joneses in this month’s Featured Story, “This world’s remaining strange mysteries exist among the nooks and crannies of civilization…”
Site Activity as of March 16, 2011
10,426 Folds
1,512 Stories
597 Finished Stories
824 Members
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