Illuminated Texts

This forum was created to spark discussion on the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.  This is a general forum to discuss Mary Shelley.

 My students used Animoto or Goanimate to visually present their written essays to the class for The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Their assignment was to write an  essay explaining which character was responsible for the deaths.  It was a neat way to use technology in the classroom and have the students reinforce  their reading of the text. They had to use text that specifically showed that the character was guilty. The needed to carefully choose images and music as well.

What do you think. Do you use Animoto or Goanimate?

Greetings:

As a newer teacher, I am grateful for any suggestions on teaching high school students about the potato famine, Ireland's then economic class system, and its geography, through the literature/art of the time.

I am trying to stay away from the middle class, genteel perspective, and to really focus on the very poor, gaelic population, which was just about erased, due to the famine.

I am looking for narratives, films, biography, poetry, short stories...

Many thanks for your help,

Opaque

While messing around with Flash a little I noticed a "Scenes" option. Does anyone know how this component works, and could it potentially be helpful in organizing the Illuminated Text line-by-line?

I'm trying to make a word grow with an Emphasis...Grow/Shrink animation, but when it grows it becomes distorted and pixelated. Does anyone know a way around this?