Day 4

At the beginning of English class we were experiencing technical difficulties.  The application, Fotobabble, which we needed for class today was not on the iPads.  When searching the application we couldn’t find it either.  Mrs. K tried downloading it onto the Ipods and it worked there perfectly.  The students created a digital presentation of one of their poems using Fotobabble.  They had time to work on their six poems from throughout the week.  They used their time wisely.  One of the students that is normally very talkative was hard at work the entire class time!  The students also took some time to create their poem book cover so we can assemble the books tomorrow. 

We took some time to go through a digital poem presentation.  We looked at a few different ways to digitally present poems using YouTube and discussed the advantages and disadvantages to digital poetry readings. The biggest thing the students noticed was that you cannot hear the author’s voice in certain digital poems.  You cannot tell what they are feeling.  I am excited to hear the students read their poems tomorrow.