While some stories relate important events that affect everyone, others grow out of everyday life. Students have to keep a diary or a journal, or if they read comics in a newspaper or on a Web site every day, all of these can be stories.

Take some minutes to look around your house and your neighborhood or city. Take in the details: people who study or live with you, friends. There’s always something special within your environment.

Grab a pen or pencil and a large sheet of paper, close your eyes and start drawing.

Scan in the drawing, chop it up, add more to it, whatever you like, don’t be precious. Surprise yourself by creating something you didn’t really know you would create.

Represent everything in a single piece, it can be text-based, a drawing or an animation. The idea is to show the DNA of everything that surrounds you, somehow.