Writing on Kids on the Net can make you famous!

Regular visitors to the eTeachers' Portal and Kids on the Net will know about the Monster Motel, a project which has been on the Web for ten years.

Following on from Saturday's Leicester Mercury newspaper story about the search by a group of young French artists to find the artist who drew Fat Gourg in the Monster Motel, and become an internet craze in France, the story hit the local TV yesterday. It's already made it onto YouTube (no I didn't put it up there!).

Unfortunately the interview they did with me ended up on the cutting room floor. That's probably because I gushed about how wonderful the Internet is as an opportunity for children to write to the world. And how SAFE it is, if it is a well-moderated site.

All writing that is submitted to Kids on the Net is fully moderated and published so safely that it took 5 years, a newspaper, a TV station and thousands of French fans to find Luke.

It's wonderful that they were able to find Luke and interview him! Meanwhile, the current crop of children at his old school, Oakthorpe Primary, have submitted their own monsters who reside on the Monster Motel website in Fat Gourg's Friends annex.

Why not submit some of your own?