The Magic Garden
by Amanda K
The Magic Garden is a project designed to show educators and their students how good curriculum can be delivered and the outcomes published, using new technology such as blogs, writeboard, photo board and many other exciting applications.
The Magic Garden is a project designed to show educators and their students how good curriculum can be delivered and the outcomes published, using new technology such as blogs, writeboard, photo board and many other exciting applications.
Cora Zon, a professional storyteller and Heather Blakey, an experienced web publisher and webmaster of the Soul Food Cafe, work collaboratively and demonstrate how educators can marry the ancient craft of storytelling, apply current curriculum and publish using state of the art blogging software. Cora tells the enchanting Kazakha story of the ‘The Magic Garden’ while Heather Blakey delivers a curriculum package that climaxes with self publication on a constellation of Global Teacher, Global Student blogs. Watch, in wonder, at the way this virtual garden is growing as staff, students and the wider community contribute by responding to the activities within the Magic Garden Project.
The Magic Garden is an example of delivering instructional curriculum in an IT rich, WEB2 environment without discarding tried and true practice.
In the story, The Magic Garden, there were two neighbours who were very good friends. One was a farmer, the other was a shepherd. One of them had rocky hard land, and he only farmed sheep. One year, there was a disease which spread around the land. The farmers sheep all became ill and died. The farmer let the shepherd share half of his land so that he could stay.
The first problem in the story is that the man who looked after sheep had to leave because all his sheep died. The solution to this problem was that both farmers shared the same land together. He was able to stay because he had some land to work on.
The second problem in the story was that one day, one of the farmers found a pot of gold coins. Because they were such good friends, neither of them could accept the money. The solution to this problem was that they went to the village wise man to ask for some advice.
