The first few times, this whiteboard writing activity might not turn out very well. Students may not understand that the story needs to make sense and that following the previous writer while setting up the subsequent writer takes a certain degree of concentration. I have found that things improve after two or three stories and a class will begin to enjoy the fun aspect and learn a great deal from the exercise. The basic premise is to have each student take a turn adding a sentence to move a story along. The first attempts are sometimes a bit difficult and teacher intervention in the form of suggestions to students who are unsure of themselves or stuck on what to do next sometimes helps. The teams can be set up in different ways and I often have two or three teams working on their stories at the same time, depending upon the number of students and the amount of space available for working on the whiteboard.