Alex J. Hollis

Hollis' "iPoet - Digital Poets for the 21st Century" project gives students at Chapman High School an opportunity to conquer the often difficult subject of poetry by using one thing they have conquered: technology. Students will use digital cameras and camcorders to record "poetic" images from their lives. These photos and video clips will be used to inspire various types of poems. Students will digitally combine their edited collection of images and poetry to create a digital poetry anthology for publishing. While giving approximately 100 students an opportunity to work with high-end digital equipment, this project also addresses state standards in ninth-grade English Language Arts: reading and writing poetry. Hollis believes today's high school students are products of the digital age, and this project will allow them to explore themselves through poetry and deliver results through their most familiar medium