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Adapting a Poem With Digital Pictures and Sound Prepared by Samuel Sennott 10/2007 alltogether.wordpress.com

By mixing poetry with images you can create a powerful interaction of words,

visual images, and sound. This simple guide will help you adapt poems using

PowerPoint, Intellitools Classroom Suite, and Clicker 5.

1. Find a Poem You Would Like to Adapt a. Find it in your favorite poetry book

b. Find it on the internet

c. Find an copyright free poem on http://books.google.com or http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Poetry_%2528Bookshelf%2529

2. Find Images to Illustrate Your Poem

a. Go to your own image collections b. Go to your favorite image source on the internet, such as www.pics4learning.com or

http://images.google.com c. Go to the educational use friendly creative commons portion of Flickr

www.flickr.com/creativecommons

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3. Move the Images into a Folder

a. Create a folder on your desktop to put your images in. (you!ll thank yourself for not

cutting and pasting over time) b. Download the image into your folder (many ways to do this goal)

i. Click and drag the image into the folder ii. Right click or control click the image and choose to save the image to your

folder or the desktop and move it into the folder.

c. Do a screenshot and drag that screenshot to your folder.

4. Wait! Don!t forget to cite your sources! It!s easy!

a. If your using Flickr!s Creative Commons, all you have to do is copy and paste the url

of where you found the image. b. Follow directions for other educational friendly sites c. When in doubt, the name of the source and the URL is a pretty good combination of

citing. d. Live dangerously and not cite (Not recommended!) e. The point of citing your sources is so that if you used educationally licensed images,

you can freely share them within the rules. f. This being said, you may want to have your PowerPoint or other document open to

add the source url!s right to the document. We like to put the URL!s in the notes

section of the bottom of the PowerPoint!

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5. You Have Your Poem and Your Images, Now Put Them in Your Preferred

Software Application

a. Consider the needs of your learner. i. Do they need to be able to hear the poem?

ii. Do they need to have switch access? iii. Do they have access to the software? iv. Can the software be supported in the environment? v. Would they benefit from text to speech or a recorded voice?

6. Importing to PowerPoint

a. Make Your Template The key to this is creating something that you can easily

add images and text to in the most accessible format for your student. Here are some optional layouts to consider:

Your basic text box and image layout. Turn the page

forward with a left click, or forward and back a right or left arrow. To create this simply use the

slide formatting palette to choose the option with the text box and media or image space.

Optionally, download a premade template here: http://otot.wikispaces.com

Your basic two button forward and back

layout. Tip: Go into your slide transition settings and deselect the advance slide on click

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setting. This way only the buttons will work on the screen. To create this layout, simply go to

the Slideshow menu and the Action Buttons menu. Optionally, download a premade template

here: http://otot.wikispaces.com

Once you have your Layout, go into the slide sorter view and duplicate the slide so that you have enough pages for your document. Simply copy and paste the slide you want.

You now have a template! Congrats!

b. Import Your Images Simply double click on your media bin and locate the file

you saved. Your image will import. WARNING Apple OSX users, please, please,

please be sure not to drag and drop. Always use the import features otherwise you

end up with a nasty issue between Windows and Mac. : (

c. Import Your Text If you have your text in a digital format, you can cut and paste.

If not, type your text into the text box. Consider font and font size. Think of your

learner, their needs, and the task. We like Comic Sans MS .

d. Adding Sound You have options! Yahhh! Here are three:

1. Narration This is arguably the best way to add sound in that it is the fastest

and simplest to create. . Simply open your Slideshow menu

and choose Record Narration. Make sure your preferred microphone is set for

recording and follow the easy prompts. Speak or use sound effects on the slide

show page. Just click to advance to the next slide. KEY: Choose to abandon the

slideshow timings created by the recording. That way it still advances for the user

on a click or a button press. 2. Using a Standard, “speaker”, Sound Button Go to Insert, follow

to Insert Movies and Sounds and select Record Sound. Place your sound button

wherever you like. 3. Using a Clear Sound Button Over the Text and the Record

Feature This is way cool and kind of sneaky! Make a standard “speaker”

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sound button, but right click on it and go to the Format Picture options. Make it

100% transparent and you can then move it over the text in your poem. 4. Language Banking with Audacity= Flexibility, but time too! Using

audio recording software like Audacity or Garage Band can provide a way to

record all as once, and give the flexibility to use the recordings in other ways.

The Language Banking process is a way to record sound using Audacity. Using

the process you can change an adult voice into a child friendly voice. See the

One To One Thousand Wiki for the directions. If you use this process, you can:

Make an action button or import a picture and then have that button or picture work

as your read button. You right click the button or picture, choose Action Settings and

choose to play a sound. Follow the menu to the bottom, Recorded Sound. Find

where you recorded your sound. Note: You can also use audio files you have and

you can also use any type of recording software. We just really like Audacity! : )

e. Adding Text to Speech Use the open source text to speech for PowerPoint

add-on software PowerTalk. Download it here: Note: Some school systems

administrators may give you trouble about the macros involved with the program.

7. Importing to Intellitools Classroom Suite and Clicker 5

a. Make Your Template Basically, you are going to do a very similar process to

using PowerPoint, but you may have additional considerations, such as deeper levels

and layers of alternative access. Here is a very simple way to proceed: Unless you are skilled in using Intellitools Classroom Suite, choose a template that someone

else has designed. Here are three choices:

Intellitools Classroom Suite The Make a Book Template Found in the Early Learning Template Section

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The Template for the Accessible Books Collection Project

Find it here: http://accessiblebookcollection.wikispaces.com/

This excellent template comes from a project

you definitely want to check out!

The SCS E-Book Template Find it here: http://otot.wikispaces.com

Various Features and Toolbars hidden under the hood.

Talk Toolbar

Clicker 5 The Standard Bookmaking Templates in Clicker 5

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The Template for the Accessible Books Collection Project

Find it here: http://accessiblebookcollection.wikispaces.com/

b. Import Your Images Classroom Suite: Choose to either set the images as backgrounds by control

clicking the background and either pasting or importing a picture. You can also

choose to import a picture, size it yourself by going into the authoring toolbar, and

then choose to fix it to the background, where you would like it positioned.

Clicker 5: In Edit Mode, drag your images to the grid box where you would like

them. Simple is good.

c. Import Your Text Classroom Suite: Cutting and pasting is ideal. As you enter text into the text

box, make sure to lock the text box and make it read only.

Clicker 5: Add text to the text box, by holding shift and clicking on it. Cutting and

pasting is ideal.

d. Adding Sound Classroom Suite: Skies the Limit, but Keep it Simple I recommend sticking

to two options: The first is to simply have a read button on your toolbar play a

sound.

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The second is to add a sound to the page, so that on each page turn you the page

automatically plays your audio. Set your Page Actions to play the sound.

Clicker 5: Use the microphone icon to record your sound. Now the read/sound

button will play the sound you recorded.

If you Language Banked recordings or have recordings on your computer, you

can access them through the Edit menu. Find your sound and drag it to the

read/sound button.

e. Adding Text to Speech Classroom Suite: By making your text boxes read only and locked you will

automatically get text to speech when the text box is clicked or activated.

Clicker 5: Use the read button on your template to access the text to speech in

the text box. Easy!

8. Web 2.0 Options See the Web 2.0 for Books and Poems Handout! The Handout Covers:

a. Using SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/

b. Using VoiceThread http://voicethread.com

c. Using Google Documents http://docs.google.com