Can technology help kids become better communicators, storytellers and writers? That’s the question we asked when I embarked on a project over the past year with Apple Education and Chris Blundell, from the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at QUT (QLD University of Technology). We built a community of practice by placing my Young Writers’ StorySchool online video writing workshop into 113 classrooms  in 41 schools around Australia and New Zealand and offering the teachers and T/Ls regular online professional development sessions. The Aus-NZ StorySchool program drew on iPad, its native apps and in-built assistive technologies to explore audio,…