The Study of Myths v. The Creation of Myths

Studying myths seems much easier than actually creating and writing one. When our class was assigned a certain type of myth (mine being "Sacred Places), I was interested in what different cultures found sacred and relayed through mythical stories. Many of the myths studied were from generations ago and are strong in the particular cultures that believe in them. Studying a myth is basically learning about different myths and the views the culture takes on them, the myths also seem to influence the cultures perspectives on many every day events, such as the creation myths.
Because studying is a form of learning, and I am in school to learn, it is much easier to study than create an origional myth. Which I am having difficulty with.

Now that I am responsible for writing an actual myth, the pressure is on, the myths found in our text book covers world-wide myths from generations back, knowing this makes the idea of creating an exciting and interesting myth nerve wrecking.

I was origionally going to do a FEMALE DIVINE myth, being one of the most interesting betrayal of the female... uh... divine, but it's now turning into a trickster-myth instead. Trickster myths are a little more easy going and fun, making this process easier.
Creating a myth is fun but challenging because one doesn't want to re-make a myth or reinvent common ideas. Creativity is an issue for me here.

But hopefully with practice and reference to the study of other myths, mine will be decent.

As far as redirecting this information into a future class room. I think teaching the students different types of myths, their guidelines, formats, etc. is really good before having them create one themselves.
I don't think I would have a website created for each student because it may be a little too much to ask from them. Luckily, a computer class should cover that, or I would assign this to another portion of the class so they have only one difficult item to tend to at a time.