Autumn is a wonderful season for writing poems. Donna Smith shared her Fall Poetry Zeno on her blog, Mainly Write, for Poetry Friday. Holly Mueller shared an autumn poem by Bliss Carmen along with her original poem and students’ poems.
On Thursday, I presented the poem Autumn Grasses by Margaret Gibson. My students paraphrased it and talked about the imagery and metaphor. Then they wrote their own poems about autumn. Tyler went back to a picture postcard of Georgia O’Keefe’s Autumn Leaves that he had written about before. I love that he knew where the picture was and felt comfortable enough to grab it again for inspiration.
On Friday, I showed my students how I had made a poem movie with my poem This Peace. I suggested they might want to try to make their own poem movie using Animoto. I think this was Tyler’s first time to use Animoto. He found the perfect background, and after he finished putting in his images and words and the movie was produced, I overheard a gasp. He was totally enthralled and impressed with his own creation. This is what creativity in the classroom is all about, that Wow feeling.
I encourage you to teach an autumn poem and make poem movies in Animoto. You may use Tyler’s as a model. Please let me know if you do. I love to know when I have inspired creativity in others.
Reblogged this on What Else? 1DR and commented:
Love the idea of digital poems in Animoto. I’ve used Vibe before because it fit. [ Vine #chalkabration ]. This is a perfect way to bring media and text together.
That was lovely, Margaret. The whole piece came together beautifully – words, images and music.
That’s incredible. I need to learn Animoto.
Not much to learn. Just sign up and begin. They have educator discounts and free accounts for 30 second videos.
That was beautiful. I’d like to use it as a mentor with my after school digital writing group. I love using Animoto and it’s a great way to help students begin to make decisions as digital writers.
Margaret, your student’s work with Animoto is impressive. Do you have an original poem/photo from a student to submit for the Falling Fall Gallery?
I seemed to have lost my fall Animoto.
Animoto usually saves whatever you have worked on. I hope you can find yours. I’m sure I’ll have some student poems to submit. How many would you like?
Great poem, Tyler. The music and beautiful falling leaf images complemented your poem.