Free Inquiry

For my final inquiry post, I’d like to share something I wrote connecting the stance of inquiry to my own childhood. So here it goes:

For this weeks’ inquiry, I decided to research some resources to help me engage students in middle and high school in playing with language in a poetic way (which as I found out recently was the point of my inquiry … Read More

While talking to Guillaume about my inquiry project last week, it occurred to me that my exploration of poetry in this class came from my desire to show students that anyone can play with language, and that words have power … Read More

For this week’s inquiry, I created a simple video with captions (given we have been discussing accessibility in tech). The poem I read in the video is called “The World I Live In”, by Mary Oliver.

I have found that over the last several weeks, my mind has been racing with much information and novelty, and that this hasn’t been very conducive to poetic experimentation (remember this reflection about the importance of idleness for creativity?). So, … Read More

This past week in my Link2Practice we had a wonderful guest speaker who happens to be both a professional TOC and a poet. Her name is Marie Metaphor (could this actually be her name? I mean, last name “Metaphor” and … Read More

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” Hafiz How do you begin to write a poem? There is no single answer to this question, so all I … Read More

I could have spent hours using Screencastify.

Why choose poetry? We’ve been talking about the concept of inquiry a lot in class. It’s new to me, but I think it’s safe to say that poetry is a great place for inquiry. Firstly, because poetry is by definition … Read More