Updated Video

I felt that my video was pretty good
for the technology and things that I have

I went back through and added text and links though

I feel that if we are going to do more with these videos
we all need access to better technology
and make them more uniform

Lost Labours of Love

as i mentioned in this post
i was very excited to go see the play
of Love's Labour's Lost

Overall I really liked the play
I thought they did a terrific job of
adapting it to the stage
and adapting it into the 40's era
(it made me wish i was in the 40's)

As for my thoughts and critique on it

the first thing was that is was way too long
i felt like it dragged on
and they made some of the scenes
unnecessarily long and boring

i thought that this was interesting and
semi related to my final project topic

the cast did a good job drawing in the audience
and making everyone engaged
but had they just shortened the play
and made thing a little more accessible
that it would have made things better

i felt like that there were a lot of
"non shakespeare folk"
that where asking their shakespearean friends
"what just happen, what is going on, etc"
and then people explaining the entirety
of the play as they were leaving the theater

this leads me to the idea that no matter
how accessible and exciting and hip
your content may be
you still cant tackle huge boring things

even as a "shakespeare folk"
i felt like they talked really fast
and sometimes it was hard to follow
one thing that made things hard to follow
was that i was unsure who some of the cast was supposed to be

some people in our class mentioned
this may just be because we were
 looking and knew the characters better

I asked my husband what he thought
and his smartypants self said,
"it was kinda racy for BYU"
(he's a BYU hater)

over all i thought it was a good production
the set was amazing
the live band was amazing
it was pretty awesome production

my sister is in town
and i almost want to go again
so she can go

Shopping Market Study

So i tried to brain storm all of the prospective audience outlets
of where we could post or present our project

I think something that could be an actual presentation would be best
but i suppose we could do a written submission

Dr Burton suggested Classroom 2.0
They have a call for submissions for their book and also for a virtual conference they are hosting

NCTE takes submissions for journal articles, this is probably a little more formal than we are looking though

UCTE/LA every year they have their conference where teachers present ideas. I attended last year and it was great. we could definitely probably present there and it would be a very appropriate situation to do it at

Central Utah Writing Project has workshops that they do through out the year as well as during the summer. they are more gear towards writing but being as the officers are all our english teacher professors, we may be able to pull something

Secondary Solutions has a blog about teaching that we may be able to submit something to

readwritethink  is a website that takes lesson plans that might be good to submit our ideas to

We also could try to get something with Folger Education  either their blog or their teachers' cite

We could maybe present to one of the BYU classes here on campus
Or there is club/interest group  that i have been trying to facilitate that we could

i think i have exasperated all my teaching ideas.

If all else fails we could just do a you tube video!

The Comedy of Errors

I am planning on and excited to go see "The Comedy of Errors"



Wednesday Mar 28, 2012 7:30PM tickets are only $3 !

Education for Everyone

I am taking a social problems class right now
and for extra credit we could watch
a documentary about education

I watched Waiting for "Superman" on Netflix

Now i am already passionate about education
but this more just supported those feelings
it was a really moving film

i strongly urge you to watch it

But one of the things i wanted to talk
about was how this is semi applicable to
my Shakespeare and what I am looking into now

One line that stood out to me was about
these charter schools --called Kipp Academies
Their big "slogan" that the man described their schools as doing is  

"closing the achievement gap and shattering
the myth that some students can't learn"

This article talks about Harriet Ball
the woman who helped to inspire these charter
schools by the way she taught
in the article it is is described as
"a 'multisensory, mnemonic, whole-body teaching technique'
designed to 'propel at-risk students toward excellence,'
 though she insists her method works for all children.
In simpler terms, she calls it Rap, Rhythm, and Rhyme."

the way i saw her approach was just
making the material accessible for students!
-breaking up the material

I want to look more into her
suggestions that she had given
and maybe work them into our "Shakespeare-ience"

but over all this film was so moving
especially the last half hour
i seriously got choked up

it is so sad to me that all of the students
want to be in these good schools
and they want to learn
but they dont get chosen for the "lottery"

i really hope to see our education
system change in my life time
and when i am a teacher

that way everyone can have an education

This film completely renewed my wants 

to be a teacher (not that they were fading).
It also helped me remember 

the importance of being a good teacher.
Half way through I was starting to question

 if i still wanted to be a teacher because

 it is such a huge responsibility and challenge, 

but by the end it just strengthened my wants.

Just thought I would share :)

and it was semi relevant 

Coming soon to theaters....

Here is my video!
definitely rough

but it wasnt too time consuming
--i only spent 5 minutes between take one and this take (5)

I kinda feel like a valley girl

i dont know how i came out so enthusiastic 

but it works!

lodge you in the field!

Elizabeth E Schuch 

I agree with everyone that

i am enjoying this play tremendously

i am so excited to go see it on the 24th!

which have you seen the pre production pictures?
and the video?

theres also a study guide

looks fabulous!

i found this article that discussed

the relationship between men and women

in the context of this play 

now that ive looked at this and found this

i would have loved to look into this

for a research project

its is intriguing!

i also found this activity 

that has students act out 

the "Winter's Song" poem from the play 

i love this activity because it focuses on 

what i have been looking into with my research

this idea that students should look 

more in detail at smaller chunks of the play

and this is exactly what it is doing

and it is a really hands on activity which is good too