Monday, 9 December 2013

USINGIN THE CLASSROOM!

This is a great webpage where you can create your own poetry or stories. Where you use pictures given by many artists. Once you have finished creating your story you can publish them for others to see. It is a great idea involving children to use the website, with this, you are encouraging them to read any kind of stories between them and the peers.
This could be done individually or in groups.

During the class, Raquel gave us a username and a password on a piece of paper:
Username: class201349
Password: xxxxxxx 

Later on we had to choose the images of a certain artist: The art of Alina Chau. Then Raquel explained to us the purpose of this activity and what type of poetry she wanted us  to write about. There were 4 types of poetries:

  1.  Letter poetry: There are poems read as letters where you can think of writing in a formal or colloquial way, the subject could just be anything (a complaint, love letter, philosophical letter)..



2. Haiku poetry is the way of looking the physical world and see something deeper that really means a lot to you.


3. Guessing poetry are rhymes where you have to figure out what is the poem talking about.


4. Cluster poetry is poetry where you collect things in different ways.


Hope that you liked my poetries!
We could do so many things with students, could you give me more ideas?
Thanks a lot...
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2 comments:

  1. Anne12 December 2013 at 13:30

    First of all I must say that the poems are great so do not worry. I really loved this product too. Is what has caught much attention of this product has been drawing the authors note is that most of them are hand-made. I also think that the drawings are very suitable for all ages; there is none with something inappropriate for children. Also I think it would be a good idea to print some pictures so that they were creating the story even be a good idea to do so in groups with computers and print that expose class. It's funny but my case, the drawings helped me steer the subject I wanted to talk to each poem. I just love it.

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  2. Patricia Ripple17 December 2013 at 23:37

    Hi Marina!! I really like how you explain this topic on your post.
    Poetry promotes literacy and creativity and its a good way to express feelings. Sometimes we have the curious and the creative inside ourselves and the only thing what we have to do its to express and bring to light. Children for example, will look into themselves and then they will take out their feelings and creativity, but only in directions they prefer. Children cannot be expected to know where to direct their talents until an innovative teacher appears and gets the good out of their students. And that includes, in my opinion, poetry.
    Regards,
    Patricia

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