1.+Introduction

Introduction to the English Wizard... This wiki is a planning guide for teachers wishing to implement ICT's into their **//year nine English//** classroom in order to enhance student engagement and learning experiences whilst encouraging students to become competent, discriminating, creative and productive users of ICT's. The learning activity this wiki focuses on is within the **//'writing and designing'//** of the English Essential Learnings by the end of year nine with a particular focus on **//poetry//**. In doing so, students will be able to, ‘express and creatively represent ideas, information and thinking in innovative ways’ (QSA, 2007). Students will select a poet from the following list:

1. Shakespeare 2. Robert Frost 3. Emily Dickinson 4. Walt Whitman 5. Sylvia Plath 6. Henry Lawson 7. Judith Wright 8. Andrew Barton Paterson

After selecting a poet they will complete the following task.

Task 1. Students will produce an interactive poster via [|Glogster]that incorporates a particular poem from the poet they have chosen. They are to include useful facts about poet around the poem along with pictures. From the chosen poem, they are to choose 5 words to explore various synonyms for.

Task 2. Student in order to demonstrate their knowledge of language, are to create a word cloud using the web 2.0 tool, [|'Wordle.']Through Wordle, they are to make 5 'word clouds' with the 5 words they choose from task 1. The 'word clouds' are to consist of at least 10 synonyms. 10 is the minimum and 15 the max.

Task 3. After creating a Wordle, students are to produce a poem of their own using at least 3 of the words they chose or synonyms they discovered using the 'Wordle' tool. Students are to create their own poem with a minimum of 10 lines and a maximum of 15. Students are required to post their poem on the class [|blog site.] They are to also upload a written reflection about their poem focusing on what they felt were some strengths and weaknesses of their poem. Through the use of the commenting tool, students are to respond to each others poems and reflections and give each poem a grading out of 5.

Belinda Tomarchio ED3441