Glypho, I Don't Think So!

Let me say, I like the idea of Glypho. I think if I were an actual writer I might even use it. I like how you write the story and other people can help you edit, get character ideas and development along with plot starters.

In my perfect Glypho world I would be able to set up my own account where my class were the only members so that they could write down story ideas and then post character and plot ideas. I'd love them to get ideas from each other on revising their creative ideas. In perfect Glypho world this would make revising so much fun whereas right now so many students see it as a chore. In Glypho nirvana I would also add the control that we could invite others to give us help; either our fellow classmates at Manor Woods or even in different schools. It would even be cool to have pen pals with my friend in Switzerland to see how ideas might be different.

Sadly, this is not a perfect Glypho world. Here Glypho looks like it is a lot of adults sharing their writing ideas and collaborating with other would be writers. And that's great but I can't in good conscience have my students reading adults writing and not knowing what they would come across or having adults give input on the students' writing not knowing what might come up.

Actually I think perfect Glypho world is called my own wiki-space or Class Blogmeister http://classblogmeister.com/, that is a blog site specifically for educators and their students (I do love me some blogger, though). It has a lot of great safety controls. So the good news is Glypho helped me realized another way to utilize my own wiki-space or blog.