Kathleen Gibbs' class was creating "found poems" and wanted a way to manipulate text. This is a perfect application of technology. I created a template in Microsoft Word that is comprised of text boxes that have no borders, can be moved and placed on top of one another, and can be re-sized and rotated (somewhat like those refrigerator magnets that people arrange into poems).
Here is what one student did with it (using text from
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest):
Would you like to try this with your students? I can't attach the template file here, but I will do so in a post to the faculty & staff forum.
I was asked if it would be possible to create this sort of thing with random words. This is certainly possible. Check out http://magneticpoetry.com/pages/play-online.
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