This document discusses using technology to teach Shakespeare. It argues that technology brings Shakespeare's world to life for students and helps them visualize plays, understand poetic structure, and translate texts. Examples provided include blogs about Shakespeare, a podcast discussing adaptations of Romeo and Juliet over time, and a YouTube video exploring connections between Shakespeare and rap music. The document also provides examples of online resources for teaching Shakespeare, such as apps, worksheets, and searchable collections of Shakespeare's plays.

1. Introduction to
Shakespeare
Amy Solomon
Freshmen English

2. Technology Integration
Rationale
It’s important to integrate technology when
studying Shakespeare and his texts because
technology helps bring to life Shakespeare’s
world. In the study of Shakespeare, technology
assists students in visualizing plays,
understanding poetic meter, and translating
texts. Technology can draw together key ideas
and concepts to understanding Shakespeare
through creative and interactive methods.

3. Internet Content
All internet sites that have been used in this
presentation have been evaluated as reliable
sources and will be cited in the notes section
for each corresponding slide.
The following three slides show a blog, a
podcast, and YouTube clip that are reliable
sources to help understand Shakespeare.

4. Blog Content
http:///theshakespeareblog.com
This blog posts different articles relevant to
Shakespeare and his works. Posts include
insight on new play adaptions, new
interpretations of his works, and tours of
Shakespeare’s world.

5. Podcast: “Romeo and
Juliet Through the Ages”
http://www.folger.edu/documents/ShaxUnlimited_Rand
JThroughTime.mp3
Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare Unlimited
Episode 12 “Romeo and Juliet
Through the Ages”
This podcast considers how the play
Romeo and Juliet was perceived
through different times in history, as
well as why it is relevant to readers
today.

6. YouTube Content
Hip Hop & Shakespeare: Akala at
TEDxAldeburgh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY
• This clip explores similarities between
Shakespeare’s works and other rap songs in

7. Internet Resources
No Fear Shakespeare
Though this site needs to be used with caution as
it is a branch of SparkNotes, it can be helpful for
students who are struggling to understand certain
scenes in Shakespeare plays. It gives a transcript
of Shakespeare’s plays side by side with a more
modern translation.
Shakespeare Words Glossary
This site is helpful as it provides definitions of
different Shakespeare terms commonly used in
his works.
PBS Shakespeare on Films
This source is useful as it gives many different
sources on how to incorporate Shakespeare film

8. Inspiration: Hamlet Web

9. Teaching Materials:
There’s an App for That!
App:
PlayShakespeare.com
• This free app puts all of
Shakespeare’s plays and
many of his sonnets at your
fingertips!
• This app also features
advanced search methods
that can bring users to the
exact act, scene, and line
number of a play.

10. Teaching Materials:
Contextual Definitions
Worksheet
This worksheet is useful
because this reading
comprehension activity is
similar to what is seen on
standardized tests and
specifically, the SATs. The
website also provides
other worksheets for
different Shakespeare
plays.

11. Teaching Materials:
Figurative Language
WorksheetThis worksheet presents a
figurative language activity
using famous quotations
from Shakespeare’s plays.
Students are asked to
identify similes, metaphors,
personification, and
hyperboles and then
explain their answer. This
activity is useful in a
classroom because it not
only emphasizes
Shakespeare but figurative
language as well.

12. Teaching Materials: Using
Textual Evidence
This worksheet
allows students to
focus on textual
evidence to support
different claims
about
Shakespeare’s play,
Macbeth. Practicing
activities such as
this will help
students better
support their claims
for other English
class writing

13. Subject-Specific Internet-
Based Resource
This search engine for e-
books has multiple
versions of each of
Shakespeare’s plays.
This site can be useful in
a classroom because it
would allow the class to
quickly find passages
through key word

14. Uses of the Internet:
Interactive Websites

15. Uses of the Internet:
Primary Source Materials
Folger Shakespeare Library The National Archives
(UK)

16. Web 2.0: