Delicious Tags as Poetry
In this morning's random blog browsing, I came across Beth Kanter's blog with a post about her work in children's literacy. She wrote about Delicious Bird Tags and Technology IntegrationIn addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming ...
In the pre-tea morning haze, I wondered aloud via a comment about taking #1 and using the tags students create out of their poetry to create collective poems.
1. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons"
2. Use of tags to organize and bookmark Internet Resources related to subjects
Beth quickly responded positively in an email, so I started thinking, what could I do with my tags? (I have lots of tags. I'm a messy tagger.)
Here is my first quick try. I wanted to use only the tags, but time pressures me.Potlucks with Imaginary Friends
When I meet my online friends F2F,
We cease to be distributed.
in the collective freedom of food and friends,
geeks and expats,
we change out of our archetypes.
There is the emergence, fuller identity
in the comfort of shared history.
For a moment, we’re an insider with each other;
full access, more than an event;
free of evaluation, laden with multimodality.
What boundaries we cross, knitting together
in community.
Facilitation of food and friendship.
(Who brought the chocolate?)
This is more than a sharing economy
Then we dinnercast back out,
connection to the rest of our invisible friends.
p.s. For an added treat, check out Beth's Flikr page.
>poetry, tags, tagging, collaborative
posted by Nancy White at 8:24 AM
4 Comments:
Nancy:
Wow, I love the poem and saves me from trying write one as an example.
What if you linked your tag words to something? Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks ....
For the student work (and this is the culmination of the project as it is more advanced ... don't even know if we can get there until the fall ...) They would:
* Write a poem
* Bookmark in delicious using selected words as tags
* Find another student's delicious bookmarked post with the same tag
* Link to it from their poem
So the final result would, hopefully, be having all the poems linked together to produce a collaborative work.
Oh my, I hadn't even THOUGHT of hyperlinking. You really want to help me not get my work done, eh? It is such a, dare I say, delicious proposition. Maybe tonight after dinner. ;-)
So what you are proposing is actually creating a network of poems. Did you ever seen the Noon Quilt project that was done by trAce online? http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/quilt/
It was pre-tag days, but another look at hyperlinked poetry. The theme was the tag, in some sense.
You have got my mind going, Beth!
Nancy:
Yes, that's what I was thinking of exactly! It's funny you should mention the quilt - as I did a student online writing project, in collaboration with a writer. Students shared their poems online - the students were from two different remotely located classrooms. They shared their poems via journals in Caucus. We stitched the collaborative poem together as web page. Unfortunately, the project is no longer online.
More later ...
Christian Crumlish is wondering about poetry too
http://xianlandia.com/te-amo/2005/05/01/names_matter.html
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