Natalie Merchant has been a favorite singer/songwriter of mine since the days of Ten Thousand Maniacs. These Are The Days continues to be one of those “go to” songs for me. When I watched this video today, I was awe-struck. She has literally breathed life into poetry that was flat and lifeless on a dusty [...]
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Poetry March Madness!
April 9, 2010 · 4 Comments · innovative teaching
Since April is National Poetry Month and March is (unofficial) Basketball Month, I decided to have a little fun with poetry! The original idea was from an article on the National Council of English Teachers website. I used How to Eat a Poem from the American Poetry and Literacy Project to gather the 64 poems [...]
Flickrpoet: Digital Storytelling Gets Poetic
January 19, 2010 · No Comments · Cool tools, innovative teaching
I’ve been using digital storytelling with my students via photostory, but this takes digital storytelling to another level. Flickrpoet allows you to enter a sentence, a poem, lyrics, etc. into the text box, which, in turn, will create a visual representation of your work in pictures pulled from Flickr. Imagine the possibilities for students!
Tags:digital storytelling·flickr·flickrpoet·poetry·visual representation
