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 (May 27-31, 2008) in the exclusively designed 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 Cybertales^®.

Registrations and contributions are submitted as a class project, not on an individual student basis.

Submission Rules and Schedule

Submission #1: Fri, Oct. 12/07	Submission #6: Fri, Feb. 15/08
Submission #2: Fri, Nov. 2/07	Submission #7: Fri, Mar. 7/08
Submission #3: Fri, Nov. 23/07	Submission #8: Fri, Apr. 4/08
Submission #4: Fri, Dec. 14/07	Submission #9: Fri, Apr. 25/08
Submission #5: Fri, Jan. 25/08	Submission #10: Fri, May 9/08

Note: There is only a two-week turnaround time between Submissions #9 and #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.

2008 Stories

Beneath the Dragon's Tale
Grades 1–3

POP! Portal of Power
Grades 4–6

2007 Stories

Lunar Lunchbox
Grades 1–2

Lockered Out
Grades 3–4

Arlem's Globe Trotters
Grades 5–6

Participating Schools 2007

Holy Family School . Red Deer
Hillside Community School . Grande Prairie
Ecole Nouvelle Frontiere . Grande Prairie
L Y Cairns . Edmonton
Haysboro School . Calgary
Thorhild Elementary School . Thorhild
Banff Elementary School . Banff
Fort McMurray Christian School . Fort McMurray
Haysboro School . Calgary
Maryview School . Red Deer
Grant MacEwan Elementary School . Calgary
Ekota School . Edmonton
Cedarbrae School . Calgary
Ekota School . Edmonton
Alder Flats Elementary School . Alder Flats
Argyll Centre . Turner Valley
Crossing Park School . Calgary
Robert Rundle Elementary . St. Albert
Tomahawk School . Tomahawk
Our Lady of The Angels School . Fort Saskatchewan
Wild Rose Elementary School . St. Albert
Phooenix Academy of Bosco Homes . Edmonton
Ecole des Quatre-Vents . Peace River