The TED Prize team loves to hear from people around the world who have been inspired by Dave Egger’s wish. Although hundreds of stories are up on the site, we hope to share feedback from users on the TED Prize blog as well.

Here is a note from Martin Jorgensen:

Just watched the Dave Eggers Ted Talk, and was wowed and inspired.

I build educational tools online in my spare time (while I study education, take care of 2 girls, work etc) … actually, I don’t have a lot of spare time.

I do have 2 websites that I feel may be of some benefit to the students and centers features on Dave’s talk.

www.lightningbug.com.au – a resource introducing narrative to young adults. It’s intended to get kids excited about story, to help them understand that it’s accessible, fun, and free … just like the website!

www.thedigitalnarrative.com – a resource for teachers, encouraging them to build stories using the web2 tools freely available to them online in order to build young adult literacy.

I fund these resources myself, and there’s no advertising or inappropriate material on them. I built them to be used in schools by students and teachers.

I’m hopeful that some of the kids, parents and educators coming into your centers will gain some benefit from using them, and hope that you may suggest them as a resource.

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