Multimedia Poetry

 

Developing Multimedia Poems

This lesson helps students discover how technology can aid in complementing and extending the meaning of a poem.  This is accomplished by transforming your poem into a multimedia format.  Using different fonts, colors, text movements, slide transitions and effects assists with adding visual elements to your poem.  (This lesson may be adapted to a poem written by the student or an already published poem).

 

Objectives

q       Create a multimedia presentation that will extend and compliment the meaning of your poem.

q       Use text, color, movement, sound and other design elements.

q       Use appropriate vocabulary, punctuation, and spelling.

 

Preparation

• Students should have already written a poem for class or the teacher has selected and assigned appropriate poems to each student.
• Preview web sites with examples of multimedia poetry.
• Have the students log in and complete the Multimedia Quiz as a pre-test of presentation knowledge and discuss the answers.

 

Procedure

1. Discuss how poetry could be enhanced with technology and share examples.  Storyboard a poem in class by breaking the verses of the poem into slides for presentation.  Discuss some ways of extending the meaning of the words in creative ways.  Demonstrate how to take notes on the key words, emotions, and images used in the poem.
2. Review the use of fonts, colors, shapes, transitions, and effects with regard to design. (visit: http://www.warrenkramer.com/design/4/index.shtml )
3. Have students design a multimedia presentation of their poem using various design visual elements.
4. Sounds may be quietly incorporated only after all slides and visual elements have been implemented.
5. At the teachers’ discretion, the students may share their multimedia poems with the class.  Have the students discuss the various design elements effectively used and the way technology was able to enhance the poem.  Did the presentation aid you in understanding the meaning of the poem?  Was the mood or feeling efficiently reflected?

 

Example Sites for Viewing

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/teachers/wfomanual/langarts/poem.html

http://www.liswa.wa.gov.au/liskidz/allsorts/concrete/

http://www.gardendigest.com/concrete/cvp211.htm

http://www.poemsthatgo.com/gallery/spring2001/Wintercitysleeps.swf

http://www.artpool.hu/Poetry/soundimage/Williams.html

http://www.gratin.org/as/avectact/index.html

http://www.vispo.com/guests/DanWaber/arms.htm

http://www.writing-world.com/poetry/schimel3.shtml

http://jdc-concrete.com/POEMWK8.HTM

 

 

 

TEKS Addressed

Technology (6-8)   1A, 1B, 1E, 1F, 2A, 3B, 5C, 7D, 7J, 8E, 10A, 10D, 11A

English   8.5C, 8.11B, 8.18F, 8.24A, 8.24B, 8.24C