Poetry

=Learning Project with Digital Photography=

For this project I have included digital photography in a poetry writing assignment. The purpose of creating this project is to motivate students to write poetry by incorporating technology (digital photograpy) into the assignment. In my scenario, students are assigned to create a poem that reflects some portion of the life. When they are finished writing the poem, they will type their poem in word or publisher and add digital photos that represents elements of their lives to the document.

In my example I have written a poem about my childhood memories of summer. I have added pictures to the document that represent these memories. You will find pictures of the park I use to play at (different playground equipment now), the zoo I visited, and a picture of a bicycle (it represents my old bike). I think the photographs will help my readers visualize the contents of my poem. The photographs also helped to make the poem more relevant to my own life and helped make the poetry more interesting to write. Take a look at my poem through the oncourse link. https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/tdericks/S603/Summer%20Days.doc