TELUS CYBERTALES® Educational Program
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Once upon a time, imaginative schoolchildren from across Alberta created captivating stories through the TELUS CYBERTALES® Educational Program. Once again, TELUS and the International Children’s Festival are proud to invite teachers and students to participate in the nationally-recognized TELUS CYBERTALES® Program.
Exclusive to the International Children’s Festival, the TELUS CYBERTALES® Program intertwines technology and literary art to allow Alberta’s elementary school students to create an online story with master storyteller Sandy Cooke. Each school registered in the program receives a professionally illustrated, printed and bound keepsake copy of the stories.
Master storyteller Sandy Cooke uses your help in crafting stories. Sandy has begun two “progressive” stories (one each for grades 1–3 and 4–6) that are posted here, on the TELUS CYBERTALES® web page, for schools from across Alberta to view and add their contributions. Sandy now chooses one submission per category every three weeks and posts it as the next segment of the story.
At the end of the program, Sandy will perform all the stories at the Children's Festival (June 1 – 5, 2010)
in the TELUS CYBERTALES® tent.
All participating schools will receive a professionally illustrated, printed and bound copy of the two creative tales.
All participating classes and home schoolers* must first be registered with the Festival in order to contribute to TELUS CYBERTALES®.
Registrations and contributions are submitted as a class project, not on an individual student basis.
 Teachers' Toolbox |
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Submission Rules 
and Schedule
| Submission #1: Fri, Oct. 30/09 | Submission #6: Fri, Mar. 5/10 |
| Submission #2: Fri, Nov. 20/09 | Submission #7: Fri, Apr. 16/10 |
| Submission #3: Fri, Dec. 11/09 | Submission #8: Fri, May 7/10 |
| Submission #4: Fri, Jan. 22/10 | Submission #9: Fri, May 21/10 |
| Submission #5: Fri, Feb. 12/10 |
Register
For information, to register your class or make submissions, email cybertales@st-albert.net with the following information:
- School name
- Teacher name
- Teacher email address
- Grades (1-3 or 4-6)
Your registration in the TELUS CYBERTALES® program will be confirmed by reply email.
*If you are a parent/guardian involved in home schooling, your student(s) can also participate by registering with your Alberta Education ID Number and your email address.
Suggested limit of contributions — 150 words.
2010 Stories
The End is only the Beginning Four friends play freeze-tag in the school playground. It is a warm and sunny day. A small rain cloud drifts across the sky. A few drops of rain fall and a beautiful rainbow appears. The end of the rainbow touches the grass near the slide. The children notice that this rainbow looks different and then everything starts to change. |
Up Rooted! A mysterious box is unearthed in a freakish storm. Four curious children remove the lid and open themselves to the adventure that not only challenges their strengths and abilities but also the very core of their friendship. |
2009 Stories
| "X" it! Grades 1–3 |
Art for Art's Sake Grades 4–6 |
CYBERHISTOIRES® TELUS Programme éducatif
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L’une des traditions favorites du festival est le Programme annuel de cyberhistoires Telus. En effet, chaque année le Festival international des enfants et Telus invitent les professeurs et les étudiants à participer à la création d’une histoire continue et en ligne. La chronique complète est racontée sur place par la maître-conteuse Sandy Cooke.
Liens avec le curriculum: développement de compétences littéraires, en écriture et vocabulaire, expression créatrice, utilisation de la technologie en tant que mode de diffusion, pensée critique, exploration et respect des idées, écoute attentive.
