We were invited to Skype Megan Miranda by the editor of the national online student magazine called Spineout . This came about because of our past contributions of our Year 9s' book trailers to this magazine. We were also very grateful to have $200 worth of Megan's novels sent to us.
This has been the first time Gippsland Grammar has skyped an author and I thought that the event was extremely successful with the students being very engaged and keen to ask her questions. It seemed like the questions just kept coming and often from the boys which was great. Megan was also very engaging and our students seemed to connect with her immediately.
Being able to connect with authors from around the world gives us so many more opportunities. This is a great way to overcome the tyranny of distance and we now look forward to running more of these types of events in the future.
What a wonderful experience for our students!
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