13th Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival

Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival is a celebration of words, a meeting place for the languages of the world. The power of words: April 27 - May 1, 2011!

Tweet Pals + 13th Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival

The winners for the Tweet Pals project will be announced live on Twitter, at the 13th Blue Metropolis Literary Festival. The jury will announce the 6 winners Saturday, April 30 between 4 pm and 4:40 pm during the round table La twitosphère, un univers littéraire et pédagogique en 140 caractères with Nathalie Couzon, Katerine-Lune Rollet, Jean-Yves Fréchette, Nicolas Guay and Alice van der Klei.

The selected tweets on the blog below will be submitted to a jury of experts:

• Julie Lé (Mélusine), author of the micro-novel TwittLitt (@TwittLitt)
• Daniel Canty, writer and director of short films and multimedia productions

Participating students have the chance to win one of 6 Kindles!

• Best mini-story in 140 characters
• Best summary or minuscule writing
• Best mini-poem: the Haiku

Twitosphère 1

• Le mini-récit selon les élèves de Twitosphère 1 à Vancouver!
• Le Haïku selon les élèves de Twitosphère 1 à Vancouver!

Twitosphère 2

• Le Haïku selon les élèves de Twitosphère 2 à Toronto!
• Le mini-récit selon les élèves de Twitosphère 2 à Toronto!

Twitosphère 3

• Le mini-récit selon les élèves de Twitosphère 3 à Saint-Boniface!
• Le Haïku selon les élèves de Twitosphère 3 à Saint-Boniface!
• L'écriture minuscule selon les élèves de Twitosphère 3 à Saint-Boniface!

Tweet Pals 1

• The Tweet Pals 1 students in Montreal + the Haiku, the summary and the mini-story!

Tweet Pals 2

• The Tweet Pals 2 students in Quebec City + the Haiku!
• The Tweet Pals 2 students in Quebec City + minuscule writing!
• The Tweet Pals 2 students in Quebec City + the mini-story!

 

Thank-you!

The Metropolis Blue team (Florence, Katerine-Lune and Julie) gratefully acknowledges the excellent work of all the participating teachers:

	Chahnaz Chachoua @Chahnazesl Tweet Pals 1 & Lorraine Youakim, intern École secondaire Louis-Joseph Papineau, Montreal, QC		Leah Turner @tweah Twitosphère 1 Gladstone Secondary Vancouver, BC
	Hélène Blanchet @HelenBlanchet Tweet Pals 2 École secondaire de la Seigneurie Quebec City, QC		Holly Leclair Twitosphère 2 École secondaire Humberside Toronto, ON
			Robert Daigneault @rdaigneault Twitosphère 3 Collège Louis-Riel Saint-Boniface, MB

We appreciate all your efforts and your patience during the development of this pilot project. We also thank Mr. Jean-Yves Frechette (@JYFrechette) for expertly guiding us on this new adventure in the Twittersphere with his Pedagogical scenarios in Twitter.

We would also like to congratulate all the students for the enthusiasm and creativity that they displayed while engaging in the twitterature activities. We sincerely hope that they enjoyed the process of learning a second language through Twitter!