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by Joana lamy 12 years ago

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Remixing Shakespear for 21st century learner

Innovative educational methods are being employed to make Shakespeare accessible and engaging for modern learners. Various resources and lesson plans, including videos and activities, are available to educators.

Remixing Shakespear for 21st century learner

Teacher pick the scene and students edit the lines

Acting - Movement that represent the scene or character vocalization

Analysis methods

Developing listening and speaking skills

The BBC also has great animated Shakespeare tales.

Take students to relate the content with their context.

The webinar is about four innovative ways to teach Shakespeare

Creating storyboard

Viewing video clip

To come up with a symbol and to be able to explain it

The students become active in their learning process

Making use of Physical and vocal engagement, to make students get on their feet, speak the language of shakespear and have fun while learning

Remixing shakespeare for 21st century learner

Making use of several types of software such as

Flick.com
Photo sharing

Working under creative common licenses

Rockstar
Finding music that connect to text
pbwiki.com
Voicethead.com
To create a presentation where people can leave text and voice comments on each image
soundzabound.com
musicovery.com
Jamstudio.com
students can create their own music for the scene
wetpaint.com
windows movie maker
rubistar.com
audacity.com
Can edit sound clip & Sound effect

Studnts turns the music in mp3 then relate it to the photo on voicethread or photo story sound

wikispace.com
Google doc
To make research about the work of shakespeare or on a specific theme of scene
Real play
Alloz them to play songs and make them analyze the text

which ressemble the literature text

Free YouTube downloader
Flash drive
To play the movie in class without Internet connection
Zamzar.com
To convert clip at home

The pedagogical aspect with these new concepts in teaching

Writing features

Make a scapbook page/pages or a diary fro, characters point of view
Rubrics
To promote writing

To unlock the language

Moodle
Teacher use this platform to bring students to createscene using the text and language of shakespeare and will have to practice

Students will act in class.

They will print act 1 for example containing four lines and will learning it more in detail.

Bringing innovative ways in the learning of Shakespeare

imovie
students can create movie poster - cast the characters/ makes slogan - an alternate title or give a review
Soundtrack
Relate or which represent the scene of act, and they will have to explain why they choose it.
Filming
They will be involve in the creation on the scence
Movie Maker
promote creativity of the students

For a scene / an Act

Voicethead
A discussion tool

Students can give their opinion for example on each picture

Digital story board
Allows the creation on a scene with the writing of text in bubbles
YouTube
students can view different film version to compare, so as they don't get locked into one interpretation.
Podcast
Students can listen to a scene an act more specific to what they need.

They can even remix it example - podcast of the Weird sister's scene in Macbeth

Using Multimedia

where to get resources and lesson plan samples, videos, activities?

Every month new features are released
The Royal Shakespeare company
From Shakespeare library on the website

Have you use Podcast before

No!

Where does teachers use technology?

In their classroom