Lake Erie Ink: a place to tell your story
Some of our Ink Spot sixth graders worked on telling and filming their own oral histories this school year. Videos were filmed on iPads provided with the generous support of the Nord Family Foundation.
Teen Digital Media – Winter 2014
This winter our teens worked with Dee Jay Doc to produce a wide variety of digital media projects from beats and lyrics to remixes and songs. Check out their work in the mixtape below.
Teen Voices
In our Writing Outside the Box Summer Ink camp for teens, and at our workshops and open mic’s, teens found the right words for the right audiences.
Check out these videos on our youtube page.
Lake Erie Ink Teen Poets Stand United Against Violence
Teen Writing Camp at Lake Erie Ink
Video from our Digital Media Workshop
Collaborating is so much fun at Lake Erie Ink! Really! But it takes work too. These videos show the results of Ink Spot 4th and 5th graders working together, sharing the decision-making and responsibilities.
The 2012-2013 Digital Media Project at LEI
So many great songs were written here last year. Check out a few on our youtube page.
Lake Erie Ink Teen Digital Showcase
Digital Media End of Year Review Video
Ballad
There was a very poor poor girl
livin’ in a house.
She couldn’t afford the rent.
She lost her house that day.
There was a very poor, poor girl
not livin’ in a house.
She almost froze to death.
She lost a shoe that day.
There was a very poor, poor girl
not livin’ in a house.
She met a wealthy man.
She got married that day.
There was a very rich, rich girl
livin in a house.
She had an argument.
She got a divorce that day.
There was a very poor, poor girl
not livin in a house.
She got very sick.
She died that day
By Lily, 5th grade
Chinchilla poem and pinata
by Kai
Cute and fuzzy as I hop and prance
as I stare with smiling eyes and make you laugh
with great big smiles across your face,
a giggle and a hug you give as sweet
and more than the raisin in my cage.
Love, <(^.^)>the chinchilla
Guinea Pig Opinions (and Guinea Pig Pinata)
Squeak! Hey! Hello? I need water! Gosh. It’s so hard to get good service, being a pet and all. And what do they think I’m saying? “Oh, hello, hi.” This bottle is empty and they don’t even notice! Speaking of “not noticing,” when was the last time they picked me up? When was the last time they pet me? Let me tell you: I am precious, but they don’t even care!
“Hey—what are you doing? Don’t pick him up! Pick me up, pick me up! Ahh! Really? A spray bottle? I don’t think that was necessary. Wait! Where are you going with him? Hey! Come baaaaaack! Where did you go? Ohh—now you pick me up. Where are you taking me? Is that…. Is that RUNNING WATER I hear?! Ahhh!”
Glub blub blub glub splash!!
“Nice and clean you say? Nice and clean? I’ve got water in my ears thanks to you. Wait. So you don’t put water in my water bottle… but you put it in my ears. You know what? I’m done with you!”
Sniff sniff… gasp!
“Watermelon! I love you!”
Basketball poem and pinata
Musty, Sweaty stinky smell
I don’t think I feel too well,
Rough, Aggressive squeaking shoes
I believe that’s awful news,
hotdogs and coco- cola
that’s some really tasty soda,
I can feel the weird vibration
it’s probably spreading across the nation.
I love basketball it’s cool and new,
I have a question do you like basketball too?
By Leilani
Pokemon Haiku and Pinata
Great blue Wobbuffet
Wobbling Psychic Punching Bag
I’ll train you; Wynaut?
By Cody