The Spoken Word Project
The Spoken Word Project was an educational research project based in the Britain in the United States which ran from 2003−2008.
The multi-million dollar project is part of the JISC/NSF funded Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme and aimed to provide tools appropriate for the digital classroom by exploiting the educational potential of the interests and activities of the social networking generation.
Partners
The project is a partnership between Glasgow Caledonian University, Northwestern University, Michigan State University and BBC Information and Archives.
The lead British institution was the Glasgow Caledonian University, with the team based at the Saltire Centre.
The project has a unique ‘legal deposit’ agreement with the BBC that allows access to the BBC archives "for educational uses only". Television and radio programmes from the BBC archives and other sources are then made available in a digital form through the website to educational users across the UK, the EU, the USA and beyond. These digitised materials can be put to varying educational uses.
Podcasts:
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by AFI
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by Tea Party
Spoken Word
by: AFIWe held hands on the last night of earth. Our mouths filled with dust, we kissed in the fields and under trees, screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves. It was empty on the edge of town but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river. So we walked through the waste where the road curved into the sea and the shattered seasons lay, and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease. In our cancer of passion you said, "Death is a midnight runner."
The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide. We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress. The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn as the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop. The few insects skittered away in hopes of a better pastime. I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall, but you made me realize that my ticket wasn't good for two.