CLASSROOM PROJECT(s)

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » July 27th, 2006, 7:55 pm

Great idea Alan! Barbara is doing something similar with poetry by Frost here: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=698. It's been a little while since I heard from her but she drops me a note on occasion to let me know where things stand. I love this idea and am glad to see another teacher implementing it!

Cloud Mountain · Post by **Cloud Mountain** » July 28th, 2006, 12:41 am

Thanks Annie. Glad you mentioned this. Also, it's coincidental that the very thing that gave me thought to do this in the first place was finding the two Frost publications on gutenberg! Teachers do often think on similar paths. I'll look into contacting Barbara. Thanks for mentioning her?Alan

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » July 29th, 2006, 4:20 pm

Well, and Frost poetry is very accessible so its not so intimidating to students. It all makes sense!

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » July 30th, 2006, 2:15 am

We had another volunteer here, I think she's a librarian at Winnacunnet High School. She helps her students do recordings. She manages the whole LV and technical side; her students just show up and record (I think). I got a lovely recording (their very first one, though they've done others by now) by Amanda for Andersen's Fairy Tales: http://librivox.org/andersens-fairy-tales-by-hc-andersen/ (The Elderbush).

Let me see if I can find the librarian... yes, here: http://librivox.org/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=873 - perhaps you'd like to get in touch.

Alan, your project sounds great and I'm sure will get everyone excited. We did several such projects in high school - in music we were split in groups for a project and each team had to produce a music collage (with sounds, bits of music, etc). We did one on the Holocaust. It was only 3 minutes or so, and crudely put together with a tape recorder, but I remember it being absolutely haunting, with glass breaking for the Kristallnacht, and one girl playing a short piece on the piano (all blended in), etc etc. It was fun, and we learned a lot.

I like the idea of letting everyone do what they enjoy most - certainly that's the easiest way. If you have artistically inclined students, perhaps someone could design a CD cover? Or you could team up with an art teacher and they could produce something in an art project?

If you posted your project on the forum, I'm sure you'd get a lot of feedback and encouragement from volunteers here, whilst the project is running.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » July 31st, 2006, 11:26 am

Look what I just found hehe...

Poems Teachers Ask For:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18909

ceastman · Post by **ceastman** » July 31st, 2006, 9:11 pm

Oh, I am SO bookmarking that.

-Catharine

Cloud Mountain · Post by **Cloud Mountain** » August 9th, 2006, 2:31 pm

thistlechick wrote:Look what I just found hehe...

Poems Teachers Ask For:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18909

This is an odd item for Gutenberg.org, as there is no publication info, no dates, no publisher, no author, no provenance, nada.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » August 9th, 2006, 3:37 pm

cloudmountain wrote:
thistlechick wrote:Look what I just found hehe...

Poems Teachers Ask For:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18909
This is an odd item for Gutenberg.org, as there is no publication info, no dates, no publisher, no author, no provenance, nada.

Actually that's quite typical of the books on Project Gutenberg... I don't know if it's a product of old technique or just carelessness.

However, here is the bibliographic information about the from the earliest record I could locate:

Poems teachers ask for. book two / selected by readers of the Instructor.
Dansville, N.Y. : F.A. Owen Pub. Co., 1914.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » August 9th, 2006, 3:39 pm

I know we have been brainstorming about how to assist teachers on how to create a LibriVox project with their students... has anyone started a wiki page yet on the topic? I think it would be really helpful to have a page to which we can direct educators.

kri · Post by **kri** » August 9th, 2006, 4:55 pm

thistlechick wrote:I know we have been brainstorming about how to assist teachers on how to create a LibriVox project with their students... has anyone started a wiki page yet on the topic? I think it would be really helpful to have a page to which we can direct educators.

That's a great idea Betsie, and something I will mull over (and try to do) in the next few days. If anyone beats me to it, by all means don't wait for me

DSayers · Post by **DSayers** » August 9th, 2006, 5:14 pm

It'll really be great to have a wiki on education. I teach teacher education classes, and one of the big reasons I joined LV is to figure out ways to introduce recording and listening into classroom, in my case, at the elementary school level.

Also, I never helped build a wiki, and this will be just the motivation I need to navigatge that learning curve.

-denny

kri · Post by **kri** » August 9th, 2006, 5:18 pm

DSayers wrote:It'll really be great to have a wiki on education. I teach teacher education classes, and one of the big reasons I joined LV is to figure out ways to introduce recording and listening into classroom, in my case, at the elementary school level.

Also, I never helped build a wiki, and this will be just the motivation I need to navigatge that learning curve.

-denny

Excellent Denny, it's a very short learning curve

Honestly, all I can offer is examples of what's been done before. Perhaps I should start a thread asking for volunteers that have done something with the classroom to tell us about it.

Cloud Mountain · Post by **Cloud Mountain** » August 11th, 2006, 7:24 pm

DSayers wrote:It'll really be great to have a wiki on education. I teach teacher education classes, and one of the big reasons I joined LV is to figure out ways to introduce recording and listening into classroom, in my case, at the elementary school level.

Also, I never helped build a wiki, and this will be just the motivation I need to navigatge that learning curve.

-denny

I'd be willing to work with you on the formatting and planning,

?Alan