Resources for Video Poetry

General Poetry Teaching Resources

• Outa Ray's Head - The Poetry Page
• PoetryTeachers.com
• Proteacher Poetry Search
• Poetry Class
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Bartleby's Verse
• California Language Arts Standards (PDF)

Lesson Plans for Video Poetry

• Modern Interpretation of Classic Poetry
• Video Poem Project - Capuchino High School
• Creating Poetry Videos - Techlearning
• Did You See That Poem - Education World
• Video Poems - Ulead Education
• Chasing Metaphors
• Poetry in Motion
• Virtual Poetry Slam
• Candles in the Dark
• Nature Poems
• Poetry and E-Motion
• In My Own iMovie

Example Video Poems

• Favorite Poem Project
• Situps
• My Dearest
• Poem of the Month
• The Rumi Poem Book
• Forest Passage
• Freeway Wind
• Zagreb Everywhere
• Neal Bailey
• Steven Ball
• Can I...

Extensions to iMovie

• Virtix
• GeeThree
• geckotribe
• Stupendous Software

Publishing Your Poem

• Ourmedia.org

Video Tutorials

• Framing
• iMovie
• GarageBand
• iDVD
• Fair Use & Copyright Chart

Image Sources

• MorgueFile (new & excellent!)
• Free Photos Bank
• Digital Saskatchewan (and it goes well beyond SK)
• Free Foto
• Stock Vault
• Flickr Stock Repository
• Flickr Creative Commons (new!)
• Wikimedia Commons
• Free Pixels (new)
• American Memory
• Pics4Learning
• Google Advanced Image Search (pick 'large')
• Courtauld Institute of Art (40,000 images of art and architecture)
• ArtServe (art and architecture from the Mediterrean and Japan)
• PBase World Gallery (amateur photos organized by country)
• GeekPhilosopher

Sound Sources

• Freeplay Music (Mac users use Safari, not Firefox)
• Free Goodies for Indie Moviemakers
• SoundAmerica
• Ourmedia.org
• Thinner/Autoplate
• Comfort Stand
• iCompositions (click on GenreJump)
• Internet Archives Netlabels
• Cool Free Web
• Hollywood Edge Sound Effects
• WM Recordings (new)