During this time Skellings also experimented with video-poems created by a combination of multicamera switching and cinescope transmission.

The Office of Economic Opportunity even gave the poets a grant to fly out and visit students at fourteen different universities.

He began to experiment with audio amplification and modification to augment his performance of poetry and billed himself as "The First Electric Poet."

As his experimentation continued, Black Box, a cassette magazine, distributed a recording of his sixteen-track fifteen-minute concerto.

Skellings then published three volumes of poetry: Heart Attacks (1976), Face Value (1977) and Showing My Age (1978) with the University Presses of Florida.

After reading Heart Attacks, Robert Penn Warren wrote Skellings poems had, "True imagination, the real flash of language, the living rhythm."

[4] IBM then published Electric Poet along with Comma Cat, and called Skellings' system "the best of the best" in computer-assisted teaching programs.

In 1986, Skellings designed and implemented a microcomputer information system for The Florida House of Representatives and its district offices.

The Florida Center for Electronic Communication achieved an international reputation for the quality of its graduate program and the unique form of award-winning animated computer poems Skellings taught his students to create.

They recorded the audio of the poem and occasionally collaborated with a musician to create a musical score for their animation.

[9] In 1992, Skellings developed yet another way to teach poetry by generating moving pictures to illustrate ideas in lines of poems.

The Evans Library of the Florida Institute of Technology contains digitized Edmund Skellings innovative multimedia archives.