WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THIS POEM?

Using PowerPoint to Analyze Poetry

RATIONALE

“Technology will never replace good teaching, but it does have the potential to enhance good teaching and engage students more actively with the texts and the writing process.”

RATIONALE

According to Young and Bush, although schools have invested a great deal of money into technology, there “has been little commensurate investment in preparing teachers to implement it” (2). In fact, “one of the obstacles we teachers

often encounter when trying to integrate technology into our programs in way we consider useful is the lack of time and training to do so effectively” (Owen 73).

Poetry analysis using PowerPoint is an offshoot of Digital Storytelling.

Digital story has largely come to refer to a form of short narrative, usually a personal narrative told in the first person, presented as a short movie for display on a television or computer monitor, or projected onto a screen.

WHERE DID THE IDEA ORIGINATE?

http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/

WHERE DID THE IDEA ORIGINATE?

Students today speak a language unfamiliar to many teachers digital language

Students today are able to process many different forms of media today simultaneously.

Students are more visual than any previous generation.

Changing the Direction

WORD IMAGE MEANING

MEANING IMAGE WORD

“In every poem a picture; in every picture a poem”

-Chinese Proverb

SAMPLES:

Near But Far.ppt Student work

Pablo Neruda power point.ppt Student work ESOL

Funeral_Blues-compskills-NEW.ppt Student Work

TeardropsonMyGuitarRECORDED.ppt

i carry your heart with me ppt.ppt Student essay with voice

LET’S TRY IT

Hope      Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

As Soon as I Find Out Who I AmYou’ll Be the First to Know

I promise to send you a letterOr call you on the phoneas soon as I findmyself.I promise you’ll be the first to know.But right now,I’m having a hard timeEven communicating with me.I just can’t seem to finda languageor the right words to say,to talk about my feelingswith you.

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