Check out: http://www.tagxedo.com/
A great idea we discussed in class for a poetry unit for students was to allow students to use Tagxedo to create concrete poems using descriptive words about themselves. It would also be a useful tool for teachers to create his/her own concrete poems or to create class poems.
I made this one from a friend's blog about her trip to South Africa.
Today's writing assignment was to create a concrete poem using words and phrases from the text. We created a clock because time plays a large role. It was easy to pull keywords and ideas from the text to create an image to help supplement the words used to create the poem.
Oh, I love the tagxedo you made! What an excellent example. I hope your friend liked it. I also thank you for posting the concrete poem here. It makes me happy to see people using their blogs for all kinds of purposes - you even describe the process, which lets readers know how they can do it, too!
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a lot of interesting resources to post, too!
beth