4. 2. Why Shakespeare and
Technology
4. Three Big Trends in
Technology—Technical Stuff
and Ethos Stuff
3. Ideas and Technologies:
Performance-Based Approach
Production-Based Approach
6. Shakespeare Shakespeare
is NOT important can be powerful
7. Shakespeare as a tool for growth
Linguistic Growth
Cognitive Growth
Emotional Growth
Social Growth
Shakespeare offers language and situations
can be amplifiers and extenders for kids--
linguistically, cognitively, emotionally, and
socially.
“Literary Legos”
8. Shakespeare and Technology as a Tool for
Growth
• Kids Make Shakespeare with Tools
• In Authentic “Shakespeare” Ways
• In Authentic 21st Century Ways
9. Big Trends in Technology…
• Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Media
• Participatory Culture
• Remix and Appropriation
10. • DIY Media
• Participatory Culture
• Remix and Appropriation
12. DIY Ethos
Allows ordinary people to
pursue what had hitherto
been professional tasks.
It’s the empowerment of
non-specialists…from home
improvement to media
production.
(Knobel and Lankshear, 2010)
14. Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 10 Macbeth Act 5, Scene 1
It is a few hours later that night.
Blanche has been drinking pretty steadily Enter Lady Macbeth with taper
since Mitch left.
She has dragged her wardrobe to the center
of the bedroom. It hangs open with flowery
dresses thrown across it. As the drinking. As
the drinking and packing went on, a mood of
hysterical exhilaration came over her and
she has decked herself out in a somewhat
soiled and crumpled white satin evening
gown and a pair of scuffed silver slippers
with brilliants set in their heels.
Now she is placing rhinestone tiara on her
head before the mirror of the dressing table
and murmuring excitedly as if to a group of
spetral admirers.
15. • DIY Media
• Participatory Culture
• Remix and Appropriation
16. Participatory Culture
Specatory Cultural Participatory Culture
Few media providers Citizens provide media
Strict control of stories Citizens take control of the
stories and characters.
31. Remix is how Shakespeare has ‘gotten done’ for
the last 400 years
Remix is what people do today with
Shakespeare.
32. Guttenberg Parenthesis
Sampling and remixing; borrowing and reshaping; appropriating
and recontextualizing—accurately characterize the way that
some university students now think they should write academic
essays. But…those same key terms accurately characterize the
way plays were achieved, and by which plays were treated in
the Elizabethan popular theatre (Pettitt, 2007).
1600 ( ) 2011
33. Thomas Friedman on Mashups,
Globalization and Education
Let’s say you work for CNN as a computer
specialist. It’s very likely you will be asked to
integrate different kinds of content with
different kinds of technology platforms. If
schools can actually produce people who are
good synthesizers, they’re going to be more
effective and innovative workers...[Kids] get
mash-ups. They do it naturally. And today,
he who mashes best will mash most and be
wealthiest…
--Thomas Friedman
From School Administrator Feb, 2008
34. Shakespeare and 21st Century Literacies
DIY Media
Participatory Culture
Remix and Appropriation
38. Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2 Thriller
it's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
Tis now the very witching time of night, You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, You're paralyzed
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother. 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike
The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: You know it's thriller, thriller night
Let me be cruel, not unnatural: You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites; You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
How in my words soever she be shent, You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
To give them seals never, my soul, consent! You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time
39. To Beat it or not to Be
By Michele C.
Tis now the very witching time of night.
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart.
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it.
Contagion to this world, now could I drink hot blood--
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
Never, my soul, consent
You're out of time!
40. • Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, • "There must be some kind of way out of here,"
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my Said the joker to the thief,
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we "There's too much confusion,
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to I can't get no relief.
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man Businessman they drink my wine,
to have had so much blood in him. Plowman dig my earth
• The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?-- None will level on the line, nobody offered his word,
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o' hey"
that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with
this starting. "No reason to get excited,"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
41. “All Along the Castle Halls"
by Lisa White
There must be some way out of here; will these hands ne'er be clean?
There's too much confusion here; I can't get no relief.
Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie.
What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?
There are many here among us who think that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that; and that is not our fate.
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Fie, my lord, fie.
So let us not talk falsely now; because the hour is getting late.
Here's the smell of all the blood still; I can't get no relief.
44. From Othello Act 1, Scene 1
IAGO
Call up her father,
Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight.
RODERIGO
Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud.
IAGO
Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell
As when, by night and negligence, the fire
Is spied in populous cities.
RODERIGO
What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!
IAGO
Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!
Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!
Thieves! thieves!
BRABANTIO appears above, at a window
BRABANTIO
What is the reason of this terrible summons?
What is the matter there?
RODERIGO
Signior, is all your family within?
46. Other Foley Techniques
• Marching army: boots on hard surface (repeated, echo,
looped)
• Shovels: spoons in cups of sand or pebbles (change the pitch
or speed)
• Airplane engine: fan starting and running
• Helicopter: opening and closing an umbrella very fast
• Bones breaking: cracking celery or carrots
• Walking in snow: patting corn starch
• Large person or animal eating: chewing watermelon or apple
• Boiling water: blowing bubbles in water with straw
• Plucking/ripping hair: tearing a piece of paper
52. Cinna: dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar,
And things unlucky charge my fantasy:
I have no will to wander forth of doors,
Yet something leads me forth.
Enter Citizens
First Citizen What is your name?
http://youtu.be/iWwja7XAdEw
53. Abstract Audio Project
• Select a passage from the play
• Chose a leading line (e.g. “When the hurlyburly's done/when
the battle’s lost and won)
• Use about ½ the lines from the passage, feel free to
reorganize them
• Mix in the sounds from something nonfiction (news
broadcast) and something fictional (movie clip) that extend
and amplify the themes of the leading line.
59. Common Elements of a Movie Trailer
Stuff from the Movie Added Narration
a.k.a
a.k.a
‘The’ Content
a.k.a
Explanation
a.k.a
Source Material
a.k.a
Analysis
a.k.a
Primary Source
A way of organizing and
contextualizing the Content,
Source Material, or Primary
Source
What’s “There” What Gets Put There Afterwards
67. Lego Macbeth FAQ
• Over 150 “Lego Macbeths” on YouTube
• Most indicate that they were chosen as an
optional projects/choices for HS English
classes
• Most demonstrate a great degree of care
and concern for quality and audience
• How can we help kids do this better, even if
we don’t know how to do stop motion
animation?
Show Mike Shepis Lego Macbeth
http://youtu.be/w6jOuV0-dGw
69. Lego Macbeth
Creative
endeavor that he Naturally edited,
is invested in though doesn’t
seem to think it
is “natural.”
Cares
about
quality.
Cares about the
audience.
Considers the
book report
inconsequential.
70. Performance
Boatswain
Take in the topsail!
Alonso
Good boatswain, have care.
Mariner
I pray now!
Gonzalo
Nay, good, be patient.
Boatswain
Silence! trouble us not.
Alonso
Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower!
Gonzalo
Shall we give o'er
and drown?
SEBASTIAN
A pox o' your throat, you bawling, incharitable dog!
72. Notes for Shakespeare and New Media
• Performance-Based Foundation
• Kids “make” Stuff
• Shakespeare’s Language
• Lead to Ownership
• Low Barriers/High Ceiling to Creativity
• Low Barriers/High Ceilings to Shakespeare
Notas do Editor
That’s been the credo of performance-based approaches…creation by non-experts using material at hand and Shakespeare’s words.
Insert Enter Ghost. Questionable shape video
This is an extension of DIY technology and has been cited as a major cultural shift brought about by digital technologies.
Who Owns Shakespeare…technology helps give Shakespeare back to the people. Folk.
The Grey album was named the best album of 2004 by Entertainment Weekly . The Village Voice 's annual Pazz and Jop critics poll ranked the album 10th for 2004. [3]
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AF5FE856762CBA8C Use one or two to focus on remix
Question—how can we do justice to these technologies and to Shakespeare vis a vis kids?
Examples of audio and of digital stories. Bring in ideas of connotation and denotation. Have two soliloquy things from Youtube.
Connotation and denotation; representational and abstract, ways of going deep into those long soliloquies and speeches.