Multimodal+poetry+presentations

Trying out tools such as Glogster and PowerPoint to present poetry in a digital, multimodal way, made me eager to apply my recently acquired knowledge and enthusiasm in my own English class. According to the curriculum the students at their level are supposed to be able to read,interpret and discuss literature from the English speaking world. Another curricular aim is that they should show a certain level of digital competence at the end of the school year. I thought having the students create multimodal poetry presentations would be a clever and inspiring way of meeting these requirements in the curriculum.

School Poetry Project
To introduce my students to this project I created my first wiki. I wanted to trigger their enthusiasm for the project, and also showing them various ways of solving the task at hand. I presented multiple examples of multimodal poetry presentations, ranging from a scene from a film, animations on YouTube, to my self-made glog and powerpoint presentations. I also included a success criteria list; a checklist to remind the students of what was expected of them. Poetry Project

Assessing multimodal poetry presentations
For my assessment class I wrote a text describing this poetry project. The text focuses on assessment, of course, but being a digital project, it is a text that just as well could have been written for the digital competence class. For this reason I would like you to read the paper. [|Assessing multimodal poetry presentations]

How to assess multimodal texts has been a topic in our class, and also on our blogs. Edith wrote a [|blogpost] on the topic,which we commented, and of course, I treated this subject in the text mentioned above. I also thought it would be interesting to see what other teachers in Norway thought about my [|poetry project], and how to [|assess] students individually when collaborating on a project, so I started discussions at [|D&B], a social digital network of teachers and others interested in social web. Being able to discuss interesting topics in networks such as this is very useful. Browsing through D&B you immediately get an updated overview of what are the hot topics in teaching the the web 2.0 way

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