The Japanese Haiku is a short poem of only three verses that contains a fixed metric structure: the thoughts and images that flow through the heart become a poetry. During the lessons in the class 1D (Grade 6) the pupils have made these short poems dealing with themes of natural events or feelings. Under the guidance of Professor Claudia Paternoster, who writes the blog "PAROLE BLU" (that means … [Read more...]
Silhouettes of chairs for poetic evocations
April 26, 2013 by 4 Comments
PRIVATE GIG With some students we choose some different shapes of chairs to cut out from different sorts of paper in order to create a suggestive composition. The students tried to give an evocative title to every composition, assembling the chairs with different backgrounds and colours. A LULLABY MISUNDERSTANDINGS READING A … [Read more...]
Discover the hidden poems
December 7, 2012 by 17 Comments
On a page of an old book you draw any object and choose some word in order to create a little poem... You'll be surprised to discover what is hidden in a page. Do you have three minutes? Have a look at my video tutorial: … [Read more...]
Website for Word-Clouds
February 11, 2012 by 2 Comments
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your … [Read more...]
