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Digital Video Poetry for English Teaching
Video poetry involves combining still images, motion, music and text.
It can engage your students to be creative in a medium they know well while deepening
their appreciation for poetry on paper. Meets 10/30 & 11/6 Schedule
# 10360
Overview
This course is designed to be practical, current, interesting, empowering and thought-provoking.
It is built around active learning and collaborative thinking. When we're done, you'll
have completed two video poems and will be able to teach this mode of creative expression
to your own students.
Audience
This course is targeted at teachers of English at the K-12 and college levels. Basic familiarity with internet use is assumed.
Learning Outcomes
In this course you will learn how to
- characterize the video poem medium along a number of dimensions;
- use a storyboard to plan a video poem;
- find images and sounds appropriate to video poetry;
- explain the aesthetic and cognitive processing impacts of different combinations of images, text, sound and visual effects
- create video poems of your own;
- design a lesson that engages your own students in video poetry.
Resources
A growing list of course-related links is available here and will be maintained after the course is over.
Course Outline
Session 1: October 30, 2004
- Overview and analysis of existing video poems by kids and adults.
- Review of possibilities
- Introduction to iMovie
- Exercise 1: create a short video segment using images given in class
- Exercise 2: storyboard a poem that compares two things that would ordinarily not seem similar
- Brainstorm ideas for your two poems
- Setting up Moodle accounts
Week-In-Between
Read and discuss in forum on Moodle:
- How can you make use of metaphor in a video poem?
- What are the video poem equivalents of assonance, alliteration, and meter?
Do the following:
- use the storyboard example provided to plan your two poems;
- round up all the graphics and sounds you anticipate needing and bring them to the next class on CD, portable hard drive, iPod, Zip disk or nerd stick.