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iPoetry in the Classroom  with University of Wisconsin graduate students Jen Scott Curwood and Damiana Gibbons and Lora Cowell, Library Media Specialist at Hartford Union High School.

In examining the role that digital poetry can play in helping to foster identity development, critical thinking, and content area learning for students, teachers are encouraged to create their own digital poems integrating visual images, text, music, and narration. Common software programs used for these projects include:  iMovie, GarageBand, iPhoto, Windows Movie Maker, Photoshop, PowerPoint, etc. Furthermore, a growing canon of Web 2.0 tools supplement and even expand the possibilities for teachers and students wishing to engage in this type of multi-modal authoring.  Many are listed below.

1…plan

…using storyboards

Drawing Together | Storyboard Tool | Storyboard Advanced 

2…gather images

...find copyright free images online

Digital Stock: Still and Motion Images and Audio for the Classroom (HUHS)

…create type and data graphics

Wordle (online) | Many Eyes (online)

…create/edit your own images

SumoPaint (online) | Aviary (online) | Picasa PC / Mac (download)

3…select/create audio

…record/edit audio

Audacity (download recorder) | JamGlue (online mixer) | Looplabs (online mixer)

…publish powerpoints to the Web

authorSTREAM | ThinkFree

…create multimedia presentations

Flickr (online)
Upload and share.   Create slideshows, pocket albums, photocubes, and much more using Big Huge Labs

Picasa PC | Mac (download)
Edit images, share online. 

Shutterfly (online)
Upload, share, create and order projects such as books, cards, calendars. 

Photobucket (online) 
Upload, edit, create slideshows, video montages,and scrapbook pages. 

123 Slideshow (online) 
Easily create slideshows with upscale transition effects. 

Empressr (online) 
Upload images or use images from Photobucket, Flickr, Yahoo, or Google, insert text, video, and audio to create a flash movie. SAMPLE

Slideroll (online)
Upload pictures, add transitions, music, and text.  SAMPLE

 Capzles (online)
Upload and annotate images, video, text, presenting them in an interactive timeline. Great for collecting media from a variety of sources or publishing a group of projects edited offline into one collection. SAMPLE

VoiceThread (online)
Upload images, add audio comments and interact with others collaboratively! SAMPLE

Animoto (online)

JayCut (online)
Still in beta, this tool promises 

…combine applications to create unique products

Shakespeare Read-Aloud  (wmv index)
 (Wordle, Photoshop, Windows Movie Maker)

In a World [youtube] 
(iMovie, GarageBand, Photoshop)

I, Too, Am a Learner by Jen,Lora,Lolly [youtube]
(iMovie, GarageBand)

iPoetry, Colleen [ .avi]  
(iMovie, GarageBand, Photoshop)

Generations Interview, SB Hatton [.wmv]
(Windows Movie Maker, Photoshop) 

…other resources

iPoetry Presentation (2008 WSRA)
Windows Movie Maker Guide Sheet 

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