| Digital Literacies |
Visual Literacy |
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Students recontextualized Shakespeare’s poetry for a modern audience by creating a digital poem, a PowerPoint-based piece which combines music, images and animation. Click here or the thumbnail for more. |
| Inventive Thinking |
Self Direction |
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Students appropriated Shakespeare's poetry to experience it in personal way. They recontextualized it in terms of individual and shared experiences. “They won’t experience [the poetry] unless they feel some sense of ownership over it. They have to play with it themselves and the lecture format just isn't going to do it." –Laurel Amtower |
| Effective Communication |
Interactive Communication |
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Students appropriated PowerPoint as a multimedia studio for their projects. "Powerpoint is an excellent medium for communication. It allows students to focus and distill their readings of literature coherently for an audience." - Laurel Amtower |
| High Productivity |
Effective Use of Real World Tools |
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Students used a common program (PowerPoint) in extraordinary ways, allowing them develop confidence and self-efficacy with technology. Click here or the thumbnail for an excerpt of one student's project. To download the complete project go here. |
