Shakespeare and Digital Storytelling

FAIN: ES-267034-19

Agnes Scott College (Decatur, GA 30030-3797)
Toby Emert (Project Director: February 2019 to October 2023)

A two-week institute for 25 school teachers on Shakespeare and adaptation, from folk tales to digital storytelling.

Located outside Atlanta, Agnes Scott College (ASC) proposes “Gen Z, Shakespeare, and Digital Storytelling,” a new two-week summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 9-12. The theme of “translation,” as a means to contextualize Shakespeare’s art and to construct contemporary meaning, underpins ASC’s institute. It will be taught by an interdisciplinary team composed of a Project Director in English Education, a Professor of English and Shakespearean scholar, a Professor of Art, and an Associate Professor of History, supported by a consultant digital curator, an experienced theater educator, and two accomplished K-12 teachers. The institute will guide participants in an in-depth study of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and Hamlet, exploring the plays’ folk and fairy tales roots as well as 21st-century approaches to teaching Shakespeare, including digital storytelling (DST).

Associated Products

Teaching Shakespeare in the Digital Age (Article)
Title: Teaching Shakespeare in the Digital Age
Author: Toby Emert
Abstract: Twenty-five teachers from across the United States spent two weeks in a virtual classroom studying the folktale sources for Shakespeare’s plays and creating digital stories about what they learned.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://library.ncte.org/journals/ej/issues/v111-4/31705
Primary URL Description: Link to the article through the English Journal website
Access Model: subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: English Journal
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English

Digital by Necessity: An Interview with Dr. Jane Wanninger (Article)
Title: Digital by Necessity: An Interview with Dr. Jane Wanninger
Author: Julia Carey Arendell
Abstract: In the summer of 2020, Dr. Jane Wanninger participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute hosted by Agnes Scott College to learn about implementing digital storytelling in the classroom, which ironically, had to be completed digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her experience was the inspiration for this issue of Early College Folio as she pitched her ideas using the phrase “digital by necessity.” Issue Editor Julia Carey Arendell interviewed Jane, captured here, on all that she learned to think more deeply about using the virtual tool of digital storytelling as a teacher, a student, and a medium.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/earlycollegefolio/vol1/iss2/9
Access Model: open access
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Early College Folio
Publisher: Early College Folio

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