The Web Helps High-school Students Learn Poetry


New York, Tuesday, May 8, 2001 –

Can a high-tech medium like the World Wide Web help our high school students learn basic humanities, like poetry?

That's the idea behind the Online Poetry Classroom (http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org), a site built by Juxta Digital for The Academy of American Poets, and launched today.

Employing technology to encourage the development of new poetry curricula and teaching strategies by high school English and Language Arts teachers, the Online Poetry Classroom is a virtual community that enables classroom teachers across the country to find poetry resources online.

Teaching tools include archives of innovative, classroom-tested curricula, a searchable database of poets and poems, links to additional online resources, a notebook feature that allows teachers to save poems, essays, and other materials, and discussion forums in which users can post strategies for and ask questions about teaching poetry at the high school level.

Juxta Digital has provided publishing tools for The Academy of American Poets to easily update the content of the site: they can publish new essays and transcripts from teaching institutes, update poems, and include new resources and links as they become available.

Juxta Digital builds database-driven websites for education, publishing, business, and media; examples include www.lang.edu for Lang College, www.pshares.org for Emerson College, www.poets.org for the Academy of American Poets, and www.bbcfootage.com for the BBC.



About Juxta Digital

Juxta Digital is the professional services division of Juxta Media LLC, a privately held company with offices at 5 Penn Plaza, 23rd Floor, NY, NY 10001. Juxta Digital helps both domestic and international companies extend their brands online, and offers strategic planning, content management, and social network and web 2.0 marketing and development for clients in publishing, media, entertainment, education, and business.

Clients include The Academy of American Poets, the British Broadcasting Corporation, PEN American Center, BusinessWeek, Guideposts' Positive Thinking Magazine, The Financial Times, The Online Publisher's Association, Logicworks, and NextWave Wireless.
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