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July 5, 2009

"Playing Fast and Loose" with Web 2.0 Pixton and Shakespeare



Michael LoMonico, Senior Consultant on National Education for the Folger Shakespeare Library, blogs about using Web 2.0 tools such as Pixton to help today’s students engage with The Bard.

Advances in technology have given Shakespeare teachers excellent tools to help students explore the texts more closely. He believes that Web 2.0 tools empower students and give them real-world tasks that they can post for the whole world to see.
 
"Using Pixton to create scenes from a play is a simple way for students to explore Shakespeare’s texts in a graphic format. With Pixton’s built-in graphics and templates, the user can make the most subtle facial expressions, as well as detailed hand and body positions."

Here’s a passage from Macbeth created by one of his students.

To read the entire article on PBS Teachers, click here

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June 9, 2009

Teachers Win Big with Pixton Shakespeare Project


Congratulations to the Doris Miller Junior High School teaching team for winning the Time Warner Cable's Spotlight on Education Award for their project called “Pixton with Shakespeare.”

The project made it all the way to the national finals for the National Spotlight award.

The team of Kelly Blanks, Melissa Dupré, Grace Mueller and Roxann Tull each received $125 and a plaque and will split a $500 team award, in addition to Miller receiving a $1,000 technology grant.

The Miller eighth grade Language Arts Department was studying “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, and the teachers wanted enrich the experience through the use of technology. They used Pixton to create a scene from "The Tempest”. Team member Mueller said, “Using their own interpretation of the scene, students developed the cartoon.”

We are very pleased that Pixton is making a difference in enriching students' experience of Shakespeare. Interactive web comics are a valuable tool in the classroom, to supplement conventional reading materials as well as to give students another way to express their ideas.

The success of this project will undoubtedly be an inspiration to others - again, well done!

To read full article click here.

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