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The Flat Stanley Podcast is a global education project modeled from the famous children's story book Flat Stanley.

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Using this process students make their own Flat Stanley paper dolls to mail to a friend who lives in another city or state. Students enclose a letter along with their Flat Stanley providing information about the project.

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Students can also create a podcast telling the story of their Flat Stanley. Students would include the city, state, or country their Flat Stanley went, Flat Stanley's favorite sights to see, and what the weather was like where Flat Stanley traveled to.

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Technology is now available for the Flat Stanley project. There is an iPhone app for Flat Stanley, where your students can actually upload photos of things they are doing with Flat Stanley in real-time. "The iPhone app includes a slick camera tool that lets you drop your custom-made flat person into a picture," (Boss, 2011).

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Flat Stanley then becomes a global education project where he visits many different cities and states before returning back to his original home.

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Students must use their critical thinking skills to decide what important details to include in their podcast.

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Students must be creative in order to engage their audience about Flat Stanley's trip.

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Students collaborate during the podcast project, because they work in small groups to revise their scripts before creating their podcast.

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Students communicate throughout the project by interacting with other students around the world through virtual interactive technology, where people upload what Flat Stanley is doing.

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Students gain much needed oral fluency skills of voice, tone, rate, and rhythm.

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Students learn about media literacy prior to creating their podcast.

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Students use technology and web-based tools to help them create their podcast. Some tools they can use are GarageBand and Google Maps.

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The Flat Stanley project can also be done using blogs. Students can create a blog where they  create post about where Flat Stanley is and show the sights he has seen. Students can post photos and add writing.
Blogs also allow other students and the teacher to comment on postings in order to communicate with the blogger.
Blogs are useful for students because they help improve writing skills for an authentic audience.
Blogs also provide a digital reflection journal for students throughout their education.
Blogging also helps students be creative and  responsible as writers.
Through blogging students can learn digital resilience and etiquette.

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Students learn about the power of speaking and listening for a purposeful and engaging outcome.

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Boss, S. (2011, November 15). Flat Stanley Goes Mobile: Fresh start for popular global ed project. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/flat-stanley-mobile-app-suzie-boss
Hale, J., & Fisher, M. (2013). Chapters 1-4: Upgrade your curriculum practical ways to transform units and engage students (pp. 7-45). Alexandria: ASCD.
Lampinen, M. (2013, April 8). Blogging in the 21st-century classroom. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/blogging-in-21st-century-classroom-michelle-lampinen
Stewart, M. (2011, June 20). Fostering student creativity and responsibility with blogging. Retrieved from  https://www.edutopia.org/blog/blogging-in-the-classroom-meredith-stewart