Save the Literature Campaign 2009

What I love about technology is the way it allows students to get creative. In the fall of 2009, I had my students read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and then organize a Save the Literature campaign. Students got to choose how they wanted to contribute to the campaign - some baked cookies and wrote "Save the Lit" on them. Some made posters to hang up around the school. Some made T-shirts (and I forced them to wear them all day long.)

But many of them chose to campaign via technology. One student created a webpage (but it has since been taken down). Another student set up a Twitter account. One student created a Facebook fan page. The campaign also birthed a myspace page as well! Another group of students created a commercial..

And another student added a special Save the Literature segment to his ongoing YouTube broadcast. How cool is this!