The Ten Gems was a group writing exercise with 9 interational students aged 10-11, who by chance all came from different countries. The aim was to write a quest style story with 9 episodes, each taking place in the home country of one of the writers.  The students had to collaborate in planning the overall framework of the story to ensure that the storyline was consistent.  They also needed to share ideas for style features (such as a rhyme that emerged on the necklace giving instructions) so that these ran through each episode.

This is not strictly a digital story as it could equally have been written longhand but it would have been even easier to work on as a shared Word or Google document, as students could have seen each other’s episodes more easily.

The complete story is here: