Best Educational Website Winners 2009
Moyle Park College Dublin
Filming the Poem was a collaborative e-twinning project involving classes of students in different schools in different countries each making a literary film. Each class selected a poem in their native language and made a film of the poem. Between them, the classes translated the poems into each of the project languages. These translations were then uploaded to our website where they can be heard and read on the Poems page.
The idea for the web site came from the need to find a way of keeping all the resources of the project together and also from the need for a space to store links to the six films made. Our own film of Seamus Heaney’s poem “Mid Term Break” was made in the school, the school grounds and a nearby residential house. Over five hours of filming produced eighteen minutes of “stock” which was edited by the students to about two and a half minutes of finished film.
The project involved the use of digital cameras, movie making software and e-mailing between classes. Some of the films were sent back and forth though the regular post on DVD for collaborative work.
All the completed films were uploaded to YouTube with links embedded in the Filming the Poem website. While the operational language was English, the website is multi-lingual and many of the translations and readings on the website were provided by the non-national students in the school.
We were delighted to have our work endorsed by receiving a Junior Spiders award and the students are keen to enter the competition again next year.
Conor Kelly (Teacher)
