Flat Stanley for Bloggers

Have you heard about Flat Stanley?

“The Flat Stanley Project is a group of teachers who want to provide students with a meaningful reason to write. Students make paper Flat Stanleys and begin a journal with him for a few days.

Then Flat Stanley and the journal are sent to another school where students there treat Flat Stanley as a guest and complete the journal. Flat Stanley and the journal are then returned to the original sender. Students can plot his travels on maps and share the contents of the journal. Often, a Flat Stanley returns with a pin or postcard from his visit.” – FlatStanley

Your blog is the electronic version of Flat Stanley. Send your blog on a trip and tell others where it’s leaving from and your story behind blogging.

My blog is now leaving New Jersey, USA and I blog because it’s cheaper than therapy. My blog’s arrival is your blog’s departure. I wonder where it will end up……Don’t forget to check back to see your blog’s destination.

Posted on November 25, 2007 at 12:01 am by Natural · Permalink
In: Blogging

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Written by Deb (Missives From Suburbia)
on November 25, 2007 at 9:10 pm
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I love Flat Stanley, and we always treat him right when he comes to town. I’m not sure I get the blog version, but I can’t wait to see how it goes!
Written by Natural
on November 25, 2007 at 9:42 pm
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Basically the electronic version of Flat Stanley is our blog. After you read my blog, you just say where you are from and that’s where my Flat Stanley has been and so on and so on and so on…..every reader takes my blog with them when they read it, wherever they may be located. My friend in PA read it, so my E-Flat Stanley has been to PA already. lol

Just a way to see where people are from.
Okay I’m way out there, aren’t I?
Written by thegritsdotcom
on November 26, 2007 at 8:21 pm
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I’ve been away from the classroom and school library since 2004; so I have not kept up with the “Flat Stanley” project as closely as I have in the past. But I’m thrilled to know that blogging is being incorporated in the process! Over the 9 years that I participated in this project, we lost 7 Stanleys. Blogging will certainly help with that problem not to mention the great photos, podcasting, and video streaming that can be incorporated too. This is excellent news indeed!

Marlive
Written by Cathy
on December 13, 2007 at 12:00 pm
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Wow. I’m from the Philippines and Flat Stanley visited us here a few years ago (three years I think), sent by my cousin who lives at San Diego, CA. We sent her postcards, pictures and a letter about Stanley’s adventures. Pretty neat.

Anyway. Here, nice to meet Stanley again. =)
Written by Natural
on December 13, 2007 at 1:19 pm
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Well then Kamustaka to you! That’s all the Tagalog I know.

Thanks for having MY flat stanley (my blog) in the Phillipines!