The internet is a growing teaching resource and tool, especially when approaching Shakespeare and literature. Digital Theatre projects like Such Tweet Sorrow and Much Ado About N<3thing doubled as insights into familiar characters as well as cautionary tales regarding responsibility, communication, and cyber-bullying. We’ve discussed Twitter and Facebook’s influence on student-teacher communication before, but one teacher has [...]
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@Hamlet: Twitter in the Classroom
Posted in Activity Idea, Hamlet, Humanities Education, introducing Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom on 03/27/2012 | 1 Comment »
Don’t Miss Out On “Experiencing Shakespeare”
Posted in Folger Education, Folger Library, introducing Shakespeare, Performance, Shakespeare, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom, Uncategorized on 02/21/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Only two weeks to go before “Experiencing Shakespeare”, Folger Education’s first electronic field trip, brings thousands of students in grades 6-12 to the Folger Shakespeare Library. Are you registered? If not, click here to register for this free one-hour program. I wrote about the program in a February 7th blog posting, and it occurred to [...]
Experiencing Shakespeare: An Electronic Field Trip to the Folger Shakespeare Library
Posted in Acting, Activity Idea, Folger Education, Folger Library, History, introducing Shakespeare, Macbeth, Performance, Romeo and Juliet, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom, YouTube on 02/07/2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Speak the speech, I pray you, … trippingly on the tongue,” Hamlet’s advice to the players. When teachers assign their students to perform a scene from a play by William Shakespeare, what should their students do to get ready? How can teachers best support their students in preparing their scenes? Steer them away from “translated” [...]
New Year, Same Class, New Ideas?
Posted in Activity Idea, Technology in the Classroom on 01/03/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year! As we tear into a new Gregorian calendar, we celebrate new beginnings, fresh starts, and new goals. But we returned to our offices and classrooms today to continue a school-year already in progress. How can we infuse our lesson plans with the same fresh fervor as we intend to apply to our [...]
Words, Words, Words (again)
Posted in Activity Idea, Folger Education, introducing Shakespeare, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom on 12/13/2011 | 2 Comments »
I’ve recently rediscovered the joy of podcasts – listening to a story or discussion while I walk to work instead of the eclectic playlist I haven’t updated in 18 months. This past weekend I was enjoying a 2010 Radiolab podcast on Words in which they explored how we use words to think and communicate with each other. To [...]
Lend me your ears!
Posted in Elementary Ed, introducing Shakespeare, Performance, Technology in the Classroom on 09/13/2011 | 4 Comments »
This afternoon, Lucretia asked me if I knew of any audiobooks of Shakespeare’s plays for kids. One of this year’s Shakespeare Steps Out teachers had asked for recommendations for the listening stations for students in her class. When I was a kid (and I think it’s been well-established that young Caitlin had more than a little [...]
Who We’re Reading
Posted in Technology in the Classroom on 07/14/2011 | 2 Comments »
We are definitely not the only Shakespeare-related blog on the internet. Far from it! Here are some of our favorite people to follow for Shakespeare discussions, news, ideas, and insights. Shakespeare Geek – the self-titled Geek asks insightful questions and posits interesting ideas for Shakespeare enthusiasts to discuss and consider. Bardfilm – KJ collects Shakespeare-related [...]
Take a [digital] bow
Posted in introducing Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Performance, Technology in the Classroom on 05/03/2011 | Leave a Comment »
As a follow-up to last week’s post about the Facebook Much Ado, below are my three favorite entries. As you can see, there WAS some original language used! And even when there wasn’t language by Shakespeare, it stayed fairly true to the intent. For example, almost all of Doug Berry and Verges Headborough’s exchanges had [...]
Shakespeare has poked Benedick
Posted in Acting, Folger Education, introducing Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Lit, Technology in the Classroom on 04/26/2011 | 1 Comment »
The big news in Shakespeare geek circles this week is the “production” of Much Ado About Nothing taking place on FACEBOOK beginning tomorrow. Sixteen characters have been added to facebook, and if you “like” all of them you can watch their story unfold in real time on the internet. Benedick Salvador will flame Beatrice Grant’s wall, [...]
Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Posted in Acting, Folger Education, History, introducing Shakespeare, Performance, Shakespeare, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom, videos, YouTube on 04/19/2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’re noticing something around the internet lately: educators are using contemporary music to enhance lesson plans. This may not be up-to-the-minute news. A lot of us remember at least this scene from Renaissance Man starring Danny DeVito where the class of military privates presents the summary of Hamlet as a rap. Or the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s interpretation [...]
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