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Monday 28 May 2012 in , , ,

Poetry and VoiceThread


VoiceThread is a cool little online application that lets you record via your computer's mic and upload the audio along with accompanying images, video and documents. It practically screams oral poetry recitation. Talk to the kids about poetry slams and then get them to upload a reading - of their own or someone else's work. Maybe someone would like to conquer Lewis Carrol's indomitable 'Jabberwocky':


`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.


`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

From Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872

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