Line of thought..

There is a kind of death to every story when it leaves
the speaker and becomes impaled for all time on clay
tablets or the written or printed page. To take it from
the page, to create it again into living substance,
this is the challenge.

-Ruth Sawyer (1962, p. 39-40)

well continuing on the line of thought of the concept ,

one could be more specific about in how many languages , the project should be launched in , l
cant have ALL the languages. have to pick 10 languages and then justify why I picked up these languages – because OLPC is most active in these 10 countries (?) and lets say 80% of the children usisng OLPC speak these 10 languages ( maybe i'll do an initial research to find out which languages it should be launched in).

Then do some R&D to find that children get bored if the story is longer than 30 mins .. or so.. basically establish the average length of the stories.. if the story is longer have it in chapters .. Also, if kids are interrupted – they can save the story at one point and then return back to resume from the point the story was interrupted ( auto-save feature )

The stories should be a mixture of animal stories, fairy tales and local folklores – have enough variety for the children to come back again. could even have a forum/blog where children can give their feedback on each story and what they liked or not – so that the stories can be enhanced visually etc. Have a star rating 5 star rating means excellent, or allow them to recommend it to the others

Have them submit their own stories .. and then ask the other children to vote on that. If the kids story gets selected (max votes) give him a mention on the website and then make his story the same comic book style and upload it on server. Promotes creativity and gives a sense of accomplishment- more active than passive in just reading stories

based on these various thoughts , etc. and also , the keeping in mind the various aspects of storytelling certain ideas for interaction were thought of which would be the part of final importance more will be added , as the project progresses.

any other feedback is welcome


Since the project basically talks about stories and interaction a number of possibilities are possible , and need to be explored .Hence , all inputs are valuable to reach to the final concept.