This is a YouTube video that was a project for a high school public speaking class. It's a good example of how we can use technology to allow our students to use a little creativity and have a little fun with their assignments. Also, many of us may be asked to teach a speech class at the school where we are hired!
This video is really cool! And there are many more like it on youtube. Essentially the videos are of pictures of poets with animated mouths. They move corresponding to the words on an audio track of the poem, so it looks like they are speaking the poetry outloud. It's a good way to listen to a poem or reading your version while listening to the audio. Perhaps the listener can also see how others would approach reading and vocalizing the poem.
When working with different plays in high school, I think it can be very beneficial for students to recreate scenes from the play. In high school, I had to do this several times and it was a creative outlet to further understand the play while having fun. This is a nice model for students to create their own video.
A link to the TED video about the team-building exercise we did in class. In case you want to use this in a future classroom or at a workshop, you might want to keep this.
Link to the video we watched in Willis' class that shows the vast improvements one school has made by incorporating writing into every class period (even P.E.).
Watch the video before reading the article. While watching, count the number of passes by people wearing white. I won't spoil it for those of you who haven't seen this before, but read the article. Our surprisingly intense level of "selective attention" will be useful to understand about our future students.