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Friday, July 21, 2023

Savoring Summer

Summer is slipping by but one of the highlights this July was designing and hosting The First Ever Kids Summer Fun Fest in our community's grandchildren. After the event, I wrote a blog titled Summer's Magic Comes Alive! and posted it on our community Facebook page and other social media sites. The Lumen5 team noticed it on their site and created a video with the same title and emailed me. The video intuitively captured parts of my writing but let me choose photos and music to accompany the words. As you might expect, Lumen 5 is an AI-powered tool that creates videos to accompany written content." Below you will find what was sent to me before the video.

Introduction: Experience the joy and excitement of a kids' summer fun fest. Watch as children enjoy hula hoops, face painting, water tattoos, and more. See the smiles and laughter as they splash in the pool and receive prizes.

Conclusion: Let the magic of summer fill your day! 

You can see the final 30-second video by clicking here.

I have used Lumen5 for several years and find the experience interesting. It does not replace the writer's creativity apparent during the writing process but quickly generates photos to accompany the text. What it does is create an initial video from the writer's post, and allow enhancements with free photos for a fun experience with video making. The process reminds me of the swimmers I saw in the pool at the Kids Summer Fun Fest. Some splashed around, others floated in a sea of kids but then there were those determined to master the stroke, dunk the ball, or dive into a clear spot. Below is another digital tech-driven image poem created with Canva using free photos found at the Unsplash and Canva sites.


Taking the advice of William Shakespeare, "Summer's lease hath all too short a date", I plan on savoring summer right up to Labor Day.


The Poetry Friday Roundup is a teacher, author, and poet Margaret Simon's website, Reflections on the Teche. Margaret created a yummy post today about delicious homemade strawberry jam from a fellow teacher writer, Molly Hogan. There are photos and an ode to the jam. Now that is a wonderful way to savor summer.

16 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing your resources. Your vivid images gave Lumen5 great material. Interesting video on so many levels!

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  2. Hooray! What a celebration of those summertime kids. They are lucky. I loved the photos and the poeming to them. Whoo hoo! Good job, Nona!

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  3. I couldn't view the video, but thanks for the explanation. I love your poem comparing writing to swimming!

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    1. Laura, thank you for telling that the video link was not working. I did fix that error so thank you. I had the poem in a draft form until I could get it to where I wanted it to be for now. Have a wonderful weekend.

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  4. You amaze me with your connection to technology and how you use it with your poetry. Thanks for sharing the process.

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    1. I got the video to work after clicking through the images and hitting replay.

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  5. Carol, fun post. I learned about Lumen5 for the first time. The Summer Fun Fest sounded great. Good for you! And the summer has a lot more weeks before Labor Day, so enjoy!

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  6. Thank you for all this summer fun, Carol!

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  7. Writing is like swimming! Love that analogy!

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  8. I loved the video and the creation ideas, Carol, & your words "splashing in a pool" for a poet's creating. Happy Summer fun indeed!

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  9. Summer is indeed rushing by! How can it be almost August already! Your swimming poem is fantastic...and TRUE!

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  10. I'd never heard of Lumen 5 before. I love Canva, the little I've used of it. Your poem connecting writing and splashing in a pool is terrific and so unique!

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