1. The Collaboratory Project 21 st Century Poetry Slam: National Poetry Month April 2006, 07, 08 Bonnie Thurber b-thurber@northwestern.edu The Collaboratory Project Northwestern University 1800 Sherman, Suite 600 Evanston, IL 60201 http://collaboratory.nunet.net collaboratory@northwestern.edu

2. The Collaboratory Project Sponsored Projects Introduce newcomers to the Collaboratory by participating in an engaging collaborative project with experienced users Provide a starting point for developing class projects and school initiatives.

3. The Collaboratory Project 07/12/993Northwestern University National Poetry Month 2007 Over 500 students in Illinois, Canada, and the United Kingdom shared and discussed poems in English, Spanish and Chinese.

4. The Collaboratory Project Collaboratory.nunet.net Students log in with their Collaboratory account.

5. The Collaboratory Project The Project Page Activities  Take a Survey  Learn about Poems  Write a Poem  Share & Discuss Resources  Survey Studio  Cybrary  Nexus Community

6. The Collaboratory Project Take a Poetry Survey 849 students shared their poetry interests and attitudes.

7. The Collaboratory Project Survey Results Who is reading and writing poetry?

8. The Collaboratory Project Learn about Poems

9. The Collaboratory Project The Cybrary Students learn about different types of poems they might write.

10. The Collaboratory Project Write a Poem

11. The Collaboratory Project Nexus Document A Web document template has placeholders for text, graphics and sound that are used to create a poem.

12. The Collaboratory Project Class Work Areas Each participating class has its own Work Area for creating, sharing and discussing student poems.

13. The Collaboratory Project Revise and Share

14. The Collaboratory Project Poetry Galleries Student poems are shared in public Galleries by genre

15. The Collaboratory Project Discuss Poems

16. The Collaboratory Project Threaded Discussions Students can read and discuss each other’s poems.

17. The Collaboratory Project Where are the Poets? Participating classes can be found on an interactive Google Map.

18. The Collaboratory Project Short Poems

19. The Collaboratory Project Foreign Language Poems

20. The Collaboratory Project Thoughtful Poems

21. The Collaboratory Project Serious Poems

22. The Collaboratory Project 21 st Century Poetry Slam: National Poetry Month April 2006, 07, 08 Bonnie Thurber b-thurber@northwestern.edu The Collaboratory Project Northwestern University 1800 Sherman, Suite 600 Evanston, IL 60201 http://collaboratory.nunet.net collaboratory@northwestern.edu