Here’s a fun project being run by one of our UK sister companies. They’re encouraging students to condense a favorite ‘set text’ (Pride&Prejudice, Animal Farm, Hamlet) into the 140 characters of Twitter. This has been getting some press recently, and I’m glad to see someone putting it to use! Is this something that might work in a Comp class? The link to the contest is below, and it’s only running for this semester. If you’d like to set up a contest for your class, let us know!
Pearson UK: Tweet your set text and win!
A similar project was put together by Perseus Books at Book Expo America in NYC a few months ago. Using Twitter (and Facebook and good old email) they invited authors (‘imposters’) from across the world to submit the first sentence of a sequel to their favorite book. In 48 hours they took the submissions and ran through the entire publishing process, concluding with a completed book in various forms (print, electronic, audio, etc.) Pretty cool, huh? You can read more about it here or check out the book here. What do you think?
