Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education Publishes 42 'English e-Books' Created by Students... 800 Middle and High School Students Participate

The 4th Annual 'English Book Writing Club Exhibition' Created as an 'e-Book App' This Year

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education (Superintendent Kang Eun-hee) announced on the 28th that it will publish the creative outputs of middle and high school students' English book writing clubs as e-Books.

Until last year, the 'English Book Writing Club Exhibition' for student authors had been held for four consecutive years, but this year, due to COVID-19, it could not be held. Instead, the Office of Education decided to introduce the students' works through an 'e-Book app.'

Through this app, 42 books created by about 800 students belonging to 37 middle and high school English book writing clubs throughout the year can be accessed on mobile devices. Students can easily access books written by their peers and also listen to audio versions.

Although the number of English book writing clubs and the number of books produced decreased compared to previous years due to COVID-19, students continue untact book writing activities by enhancing their communication skills through various themes and formats such as creative English fairy tales, translations of Korean fairy tales into English, and photo essays via online and offline club activities.

In particular, the G.f.K. (Gift from Korea) club at Seonggwang High School translated Korean traditional fairy tales into English and sent them to refugee children overseas, conveying warm hearts.

Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education plans to provide links and QR codes to download the e-Book app to all middle and high schools so that more students, teachers, and parents can access the works of student authors than during offline exhibitions.

An official from the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education stated, "This year, paper book results were collected and converted into e-books collectively by the Office of Education, but next year, we plan to support an English book writing online maker space program that allows students to freely add pictures, videos, sounds, etc., according to the content of the books they write, enabling online book creation activities as well."

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