TTT#609 Poetry Connections - NowComment, Youth Voices, and LRNG
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 2019-04-10

Celebrate National Poetry Month by connecting your students with young poets from around the country who are reading poetry, annotating poetry, publishing poetry, and commenting on each other's poetry. Learn more this Wednesday night at 9E/8C/7M/6P. We will leave a link that you can click to join us in a Hangout 15 minutes before we go live at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt. (Or just follow the links provided below!)

Here are a few places where poetry connections are ready to happen:

--Kiran Chaudhuri's students at Harvest Collegiate invite your students to read poems with them from The Seagull Book of Poems (4th edition), especially the ones they have chosen and have begun to annotate on NowComment. We invite your students to join these conversations by adding their own comments and replies!

--There are 483+ poems by students on Youth Voices: https://youthvoices.live/category/poetry/, and we would love to have youth in your classes connect with these young poets by leaving comments! You might have your students check out these recent poems from King Middle School, Berkeley, CA: https://youthvoices.live/kingms, Okemos High School, Okemos, Michigan https://youthvoices.live/ohs and Harvest Collegiate, NYC https://youthvoices.live/harvest. And, as always, we invite your students to publish with us as well.

--The National Writing Project has published a pair of playlists through which you can invite your students to take photos in important, meaningful, loved, exciting places in their neighborhoods, read place-based poems, then write and publish one of their own about the special place they have chosen. When they use the hashtag #nwpplaces for their photos and their poems their posts end up on this page: https://youthvoices.live/nwpplaces. Check out the playlists here:
Places We Love: Photos

https://www.lrng.org/national-writing-project/playlist/places-we-love-photos

Places We Love: Poems

https://www.lrng.org/national-writing-project/playlist/places-we-love-poems



There are many exciting resources for National Poetry Month! We are listing three that have exciting possibilities for young poets making connections with each other. 

Come join us!

Want to learn more? Join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers this Wednesday night at 9E/8C/7M/6P. We will leave a link that you can click to join us in a Hangout 15 minutes before we go live at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt