{"id":18,"date":"2007-06-19T13:49:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/poetry-multimedia-assignment"},"modified":"2016-10-02T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T19:56:00","slug":"poetry-multimedia-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/poetry-multimedia-assignment","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Multimedia Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re teaching students poetry and you want another way for students to react than writing an essay, here&#8217;s an activity you might consider:<\/p>\n<p>Materials Needed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/downloads\/updates\/moviemaker2.mspx\">Windows Movie Maker software<\/a> (available with Windows XP or as a free download)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/\">Librivox.org<\/a> (for public domain recordings of poetry)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> (for public domain images)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Procedure:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Students find a poem they like on Librivox.org and download the mp3 to their computer. (Or, alternatively, they can record their own version of the poem and save it as an mp3.)<\/li>\n<li>Using Windows Movie Maker, students import the poetry sound file.<\/li>\n<li>They then search for images on Wikimedia Commons and import them into Windows Movie Maker using transitions and titles to make the movie more interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Remember to review copyright law and public domain with students.<\/p>\n<p>Make one yourself to see how it&#8217;s done, and post a link to it in the comments section. Here&#8217;s one I made a while back:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In Flanders Fields\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R79oNR8wsOc?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re teaching students poetry and you want another way for students to react than writing an essay, here&#8217;s an activity you might consider: Materials Needed: Windows Movie Maker software (available with Windows XP&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[404,405,181,254,403,402],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","tag-in-flanders-fields","tag-john-mccrae","tag-librivox","tag-poetry","tag-wikimedia-commons","tag-windows-movie-maker","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}