Students (and anybody else) can create a “Poem Flow” for Valentine’s Day.
Without having to register, users choose a line from a classic love poem, design a card, write a message and all of sudden you have a neat animated movie online card that you can send to someone and paste its url address on a teacher or student website. It’s pretty neat.
I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day.
And, while I’m at it, I’m also adding Valentine’s Day Across the Curriculum from The New York Times Learning Network, which has a lot of good lesson ideas.
Larry,
Thanks for the post! We’d love to talk more to you about PoemFlow and how it can help your students learn poetry differently and easier. We’re launching Poem Flow, poem of the day, iPhone application soon
TextTelevision presents a new way to read and write using animation. The TextFlows software makes reading like watching a movie. Poem Flow features a new way to experience poetry on a handheld screen. Poem Flow introduces readers to poems they haven’t read, and lets them see (and share) old poems again. We think that this application will allow us to deliver poetry to a new generation of readers. As readers approach texts increasingly through the screen (and not the printed page), TextFlows are a tool that will engage and focus their attention while improving their comprehension and enjoyment.
We’d love to hear your thoughts about it and what you think it might do for poetry as well as how it could help with your poetry teaching efforts!
Thanks,
Laura
laura@textflows.com
Hi Larry,
I wanted to let you know that the Poem Flow application is now available for the iphone for free on the iphone app store!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/poem-flow/id339835648?mt=8