Student Literature Sites (sampler)
Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, believes that poetry is a vocal art, an art meant to be read aloud...
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http://www.dreamtime.net.au/dreaming/index.htmRobert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, believes that poetry is a vocal art, an art meant to be read aloud. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem, according to Pinsky, is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument. His web site, the Favorite Poem Project, allows students to see and hear the poets and their poems.
AHA! POETRY utilizes the Web for posting new verse, collecting hard-to-find books, contests, multilingual and multinational resources, contests and poet-to-poet collaboration -- that is, the familiar uses of the Web to enhance learning that were heretofore unavailable.
For links from Hamlet and Macbeth check out the Falcon Education Link. Illustrations of the namesake of this library are just a small part of the Lewis Carroll pages.
The Encyclopedia Britannica has devoted a site to Shakespeare, including the remodeling of the Globe Theater and Elizabethan life. Different renowned actors read similar passages and it is interesting to compare their "interpretation". The site includes 500 articles and 200 images. Links to current opera, film and music as well as full texts of Shakespeare's work are included.
The authors of Sonnet Central and The Perseus Project sites have amassed a huge collection of known and obscure verse in one place. Such classical and specialized literature will probably not be published in hard copy in the future.
Similarly, current collections of folk tales, in this case, Dreaming Online from Australian aborigines, may never be set to paper. The oral nature of these stories lend themselves better to new technologies which reach all around the world than print media.
The English Server, located at the University of Washington (Seattle), has been publishing humanities texts online for more than a decade. A mere 20,000 works, covering a wide range of interests, may contain some gems not found in the real world.
iteachilearn focuses on literature resources and assessment for diverse learners. The techniques are imaginative.
Advice about using Ebooks in the classroom by Cavanaugh.
Google Lit Trips show photos of actual geography sites from well-knownbooks.
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What might be other activities for expanding students' understanding of literature on the Web?
Students of Buddy Burniske, while a teacher in Malaysia, read Nadine Gordimer's short stories over different decades and generated questions about South African history and politics as well as literature. They corresponded with students in the diverse population groups in South Africa and even this Nobel Laureate herself. (NB: The use of the Web in both schools in Iceland and Malaysia were reported in Telecommunications in Education News, vol 8, #1, published by ISTE.)
