Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 08, Poetry Apps

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[00:00:00.156]Coming up, on Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
[00:00:02.640]Poetry Apps.
[00:00:06.333](upbeat music)
[00:00:17.327]Hi, my name is Guy Trainin and this is
[00:00:19.185]Mobile Learning in the Classroom
[00:00:20.462]and today we're going to talk about some poetry apps,
[00:00:22.772]an opportunity to integrate poetry into
[00:00:25.593]teaching reading and writing, and
[00:00:28.031]the first place I go to every time
[00:00:29.889]I think about poetry is Read Write Think.
[00:00:31.991]Read Write Think is a great website,
[00:00:33.546]and if you search for it, actually on Google
[00:00:36.855]you'll immediately get one of the main categories
[00:00:39.189]which is what we're going talk today about,
[00:00:41.673]is student interactive, so if you click on
[00:00:43.914]Student Interactive it's going to take you directly into
[00:00:47.316]web enabled interactives that allow kids to create
[00:00:50.416]straight on your chrome book or if you have
[00:00:53.097]any other laptop, but the same are available on your iPad
[00:00:58.181]as app, so you can download them and use them as apps,
[00:01:01.163]or you can use them on computers, and use them
[00:01:06.151]with whatever you have available and you can then choose
[00:01:09.328]the Writing Poetry section, which will lead you to
[00:01:12.454]a whole slew of interactives that help kids
[00:01:15.676]and adults potentially, create poetry
[00:01:18.509]and walks them through a few steps as you do that.
[00:01:22.154]So let's go to one of these,
[00:01:26.312]one of these options, and we'll start with Theme Poems,
[00:01:30.174]used to be called Shape Poems, we call them Theme Poems,
[00:01:32.937]and the first think you do, is you plug in your name
[00:01:35.073]and you don't need an account, you don't need
[00:01:37.453]to even give your real name, you just need a name,
[00:01:39.682]a nickname, or a first name would work,
[00:01:41.378]and this is what I love about these, is that
[00:01:44.013]you don't have to save them, you don't need an account
[00:01:46.695]so kids at all ages can just create without worrying
[00:01:49.899]about privacy or any other features
[00:01:52.860]and the minute they're off of it, it disappears,
[00:01:57.016]unless you want to save the file, and then
[00:01:59.152]if you save the file you save it actually on your device
[00:02:01.880]so it doesn't get saved on the cloud,
[00:02:03.796]unless you create a picture out of it.
[00:02:06.594]The first thing that they ask me to do
[00:02:08.394]was choose a shape, so I can choose a shape.
[00:02:12.016]Right now I can't go back because I chose the shape
[00:02:14.837]as an example, I chose a drop, and then you can think
[00:02:19.260]of words, and these words are just part of your brainstorm,
[00:02:22.454]they don't have to be in your poem, but they can be,
[00:02:25.321]and it's a good way to get vocabulary words going
[00:02:28.359]and recently we did a number of episodes
[00:02:30.727]on vocabulary so this is a way to start.
[00:02:32.782]And now you can see I've started creating.
[00:02:34.837]There's a title to the poem, I used the word rain,
[00:02:38.541]your words are right there, so they're there
[00:02:40.967]to think about, to use, but they don't get placed
[00:02:44.938]inside the tear immediately, and as you write
[00:02:47.643]the text conforms to the shape of the tear
[00:02:50.418]eventually creating thus tear-shape
[00:02:55.414]poem, and then when you're finished, you can print this out,
[00:02:58.678]which is one way to do it, and it shows you
[00:03:00.315]exactly what it'll look like on the page,
[00:03:02.150]you can save it, or you can share it,
[00:03:05.075]so you can actually email it to a teacher, to your parents,
[00:03:08.256]to your friends, so there is a way to communicate
[00:03:10.578]without actually saving it online.
[00:03:13.156]And then if you want, you just go to New Poem,
[00:03:15.629]I didn't save it and it's telling me I didn't save it,
[00:03:18.032]and then you can see lots of options
[00:03:21.004]to start with a theme,
[00:03:23.362]so if you're teaching poetry this is a great way
[00:03:25.417]to get kids creative but also give them a topic
[00:03:28.946]because the shape does dictate a topic to a degree,
[00:03:31.442]so this is one poem.
[00:03:35.329]The next one I want to share is called Word Mover
[00:03:39.334]and this is basically the same thing as
[00:03:43.026]you do with magnets on a fridge, or on a board,
[00:03:46.714]it just a lot more open ended because you're not dependent
[00:03:49.249]on physical magnet, and what this does
[00:03:52.084]is it allows you to have a selection of words
[00:03:54.452]that then you put together and create your poem.
[00:03:57.483]Very much like the previous one, you can put in
[00:04:00.210]a title and your name, you can also
[00:04:04.123]create new word banks,
[00:04:05.900]lots of opportunities here, and when you're done
[00:04:10.637]let's say this is my poem, again you can save as a draft,
[00:04:13.911]you can send it to printer, you can email it,
[00:04:15.989]so lots of opportunities to share it without actually
[00:04:21.387]interfering with privacy or anything else.
[00:04:23.378]Again, to get in you don't need much
[00:04:27.431]so if we go back to the tool just to show you
[00:04:31.912]how it works from the beginning,
[00:04:37.316]we'll go back in and go to the Student Interactive
[00:04:45.819]Word Mover.
[00:04:49.755]And just wanted to show you how it actually gets started
[00:04:54.241]and you can see that it comes up, in this case
[00:04:57.522]on the chrome book, you can start a new poem,
[00:05:01.354]and the word bank can come from,
[00:05:03.884]a few famous works that were included here,
[00:05:06.241]not very many, just as an example
[00:05:08.598]this is the way I think about it,
[00:05:10.142]but you can also create your own words,
[00:05:12.000]so even if you use something like America the Beautiful,
[00:05:14.496]and it gives you some words, you can actually click
[00:05:17.074]on this plus and add any word you want.
[00:05:19.441]So, the fact that you're limited to a subset
[00:05:22.101]of words does not need to dictate exactly
[00:05:24.260]what's going to be in your poem.
[00:05:25.700]So this is Word Mover, and again,
[00:05:27.301]it has a fantastic app that is really easy to use
[00:05:30.204]on the iPad as well.
[00:05:32.619]The next one I wanted to talk about
[00:05:36.160]is the Acrostic Poem, and in the Acrostic Poem
[00:05:39.202]what you do is you put in your name,
[00:05:41.756]you put in your topic, you generate, again,
[00:05:45.019]a list of words connected to that,
[00:05:47.421]so the brainstorming aspect is supported.
[00:05:49.941]Then when you continue you actually write it out
[00:05:53.239]and each word needs to start with,
[00:05:55.677]obviously the first letter needs to be
[00:06:00.994]part of that original words you used,
[00:06:04.787]and if you click on it, you'll get
[00:06:07.317]some sample words that'll give you an idea,
[00:06:11.020]so if kids are stuck on those letters,
[00:06:13.296]it gives them a way to get out of it and start a sentence,
[00:06:17.080]and then when you're done, it'll show you what the poem
[00:06:19.891]will print like and what it'll look like saved.
[00:06:22.119]So this is Acrostic Poem.
[00:06:23.710]There are other poems, like the Diamante Poem,
[00:06:26.715]that's another option, Haiku, which I personally love,
[00:06:30.808]if you want to see it, go and explore,
[00:06:33.315]it's a great website, lots of options, and lots of ways
[00:06:37.217]to really share poetry between kids in your classroom
[00:06:41.420]and support that creation of poetry.
[00:06:44.218]The next thing that I want to talk about is Rhymer.
[00:06:46.899]Rhymer is an app on the iPad, but it also has a website.
[00:06:51.567]What it allows you to do is
[00:06:55.347]write in the word that you're looking for a rhyme,
[00:06:57.956]so if you are writing rhyming poetry, and I don't
[00:07:00.290]necessarily recommend that all poetry will be rhyming
[00:07:02.949]because obviously it's not, and more than that
[00:07:05.050]kids sometimes get hung up on their rhyming
[00:07:07.465]and don't make as much sense because they're really
[00:07:10.147]fixated on that, on the other hand,
[00:07:12.051]rhyiming is a great way to teach basic word skills,
[00:07:16.370]so there is benefit to that as well.
[00:07:18.460]What you do in this case is, just write down a word,
[00:07:22.685]let's write a word like train, and say Rhyme,
[00:07:26.900]and what it's going to do is it's going to generate words
[00:07:29.605]that rhyme with train, in this case it's a very common word
[00:07:33.645]and they found 159 end rhymes with one syllable,
[00:07:37.721]and then you get two syllable options,
[00:07:39.265]and even three syllable options and more,
[00:07:42.063]and so what you're seeing is this is a way,
[00:07:44.721]if kids are insisting or you want them to do some rhyming
[00:07:49.307]this is the way to do it.
[00:07:50.828]The one thing about this website,
[00:07:52.271]it doesn't pop up as badly on the app,
[00:07:54.525]is that it does have ads, so this is a great way
[00:07:58.616]and a great moment to talk to kids about
[00:08:01.786]focusing on the main thing and knowing that
[00:08:04.630]ads are sometimes there, but they're not
[00:08:07.266]necessarily connected to what we're doing
[00:08:09.182]so we're going to ignore them.
[00:08:10.676]So this is really a way
[00:08:15.933]to generate those rhymes quickly, and again,
[00:08:19.985]it's very important if kids are stuck
[00:08:21.796]and they really want that rhyme,
[00:08:23.828]it's a really good way to do that.
[00:08:25.709]So this is Rhymer,
[00:08:27.973]and this is a great tool for all kids.
[00:08:30.550]So today we talked about some tools
[00:08:31.874]that will help kids write poetry,
[00:08:34.145]and I'll see you next time
[00:08:35.400]on Mobile Learning in the Classroom.
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