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Creating a VirtualLearning Environment for

ShakespearesPlays:Allthe Webs a Stage

Kyle Stooshnov

EDULEARN12


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Speake theSpeech


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1. To be or not to be, that is thequestion.

2. All the worlds a stage

3. O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore artthou Romeo?

4. Now is the winter of our

discontent5. Is this a dagger I see before me

Jamieson (n.d.) about.com

Top Five Most Quoted Lines


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Top Five Most Studied Plays

1. Romeo and Juliet

2. Macbeth

3. Hamlet

4. Julius Caesar

5. A Midsummers Night DreamLoMonico (2009)


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Problems with High School

ShakespeareLanguage difficulties -Old English

Focus on tests rather than the plays

Reliance on video adaptation

Pile of papers instead of learning


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Mary Hartman on Playing the

PlaysThe Director

of Education

for Bard onthe BeachShakespeareFestival in

Vancouver,Canada


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Shakespeare in Elementary

School

The work of a child is playGee (2004)

Children have the natural curiosity

needed to explore the plays in a fun

and safe environment


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Vancouver Montessori

From kindergarten to grade three,students were working together onthree school productions:

The Tempest (2007)

A Midsummers Night Dream (2008)

Much Ado about Nothing (2009)

Made use of Richard Carters seriesof original verse adaptations


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North Vancouver School

DistrictParent/teacher involvement in the

intermediate grades

Integrated lessons explored Globe

Theatre and 16th century England

Made use of Alain Chirinians retelling

of original text for Romeo & Juliet


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Romeo and Juliet (2008)

Martin Stuiblegives a prologue

to his studentsproduction inNorth Vancouver


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Virtual Learning Environments

The Web allows for more than a contentdelivery platform or reading rooms but

also an expressive medium in itself.Trettien (2010)

the digital world [is] split between high-cost packages and cheap or free-access

offerings.Murphy (2010)


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Virtual Globes

Previous examples of Shakespearesplays performed in Virtual Worlds:

Arden: the World of William

ShakespeareSecond Lifes mShakespeare

Company

Minecraft has several theatres,some on fire
http://youtu.be/WYNlnGFipwA?t=3m42shttp://youtu.be/WYNlnGFipwA?t=3m42s


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Globe Theatre with Actors, from Google SketchUp
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=86a73bea65571dad482171afd151b5c3&prevstart=0http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=86a73bea65571dad482171afd151b5c3&prevstart=0http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=86a73bea65571dad482171afd151b5c3&prevstart=0


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Advantages to On-line

LearningStudents already more familiar with

networks and social media

Same type of learning happening at

home and at school

Semantic mark-up will help to build

the learning environment


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Required Technology

Interactive whiteboards

Desktop personal computer

Laptop/tablet

100 dollar computer


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Affordances and Applications

Viewing plays in 3D Globe Theatre

Text-to-speech/karaoke cue sheets

Performances capture

Classroom collaboration

Building a database


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Shakespeare and Technology

Mary Hartmanexplores the linkbetween 17th

century tech andwhat todaysstudents arefamiliar with in

network devices


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The Design on the VLE

Choose your player

Burbage Kemp Condell Heminges Cooke

Character design Del Col and McCreery 2010


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References

Del Col, A. & McCreery,

C. (2010) Kill

Shakespeare

Gee, J. P. (2004)

Situated language and

learning

Jamieson, L. (n.d.)

about.com Shakespeare

eduction

LoMonico, M. (2009)Shakespeareanruminations and

innovationsMurphy, A. (2010)

Shakespeare goesdigital

Trettien, W. A. (2010)Disciplining digitalhumanities, 2010

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