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Shakespeare's Hamlet with commentary, from your trusted Shakespeare source.
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Advice, advice, advice: Laertes advises Ophelia; Ophelia advises Laertes; Polonius advises Laertes; Polonius advises Opehlia. From the brother to the sister and the sister to the brother; from the father to the son; from the father to the daughter. Delete the scoop?
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Shakespeare's Hamlet with explanatory notes and study guide.
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Listing of Acts and Scenes within Acts of Hamlet. Delete the scoop?
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Join the Wattpad community to read, vote and chat with readers and writers for free. " Wattpad is a New Way to ReadAn unlimited, ever-growing library of free books and stories all in the palm of your hand! On Wattpad, millions of people are discovering great fiction, sharing stories with friends and following their favorite authors chapter-by-chapter. Get started with Wattpad and find your next great read!
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This story, _Out of the Box_, looks really interesting, too. I like the way the stories are readable by pull-down menu of chapters. Delete the scoop?
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Ray Eston Smith Jr.'s website, containing his often politically incorrect (according to Shakespearan scholarship) readings. Delete the scoop?
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The De Vere Society is dedicated to the proposition that the works currently attributed to
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The best source for those who would carefully examine the evidence. Although it is biased, it is biased given the facts rather than being biased towards Shakespeare without grounding. Delete the scoop?
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Index to detailed scene summaries of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Best breakdown of the play I've seen so far. Delete the scoop?
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Tracey Lien: "In most video games, players are entrusted with performing actions: run, jump, shoot, swing, slash, crouch and curb-stomp. The developer sets the scene, establishes the context and the player is released into the world with an arsenal of actions. In Loveshack Entertainment's Framed, things work the other way around."
"So I had this idea," Joshua Boggs tells Polygon, "I thought, what if there was a guy who was trapped in someone else's work of fiction? What would that look like as a game?" Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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Reminds me of Led Zeppelin's _In Through the Out Door_ interior album jackets. I realized a few years ago that story arc is particular to the character's point of view, and should be talked about in that way, so this really adds a dimension to the analysis that could help students imagine stories from multiple perspectives. 
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May 8, 4:22 AM
A detailed look at the creative process behind a new approach to interactive storytelling in video games. 
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May 8, 7:40 AM
With Graphic novels being vogue and interactive media sought after- this is a great game by Loveshack Entertainment. It puts the audience in control to craft the story. Delete the scoop?
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Desdemona Bandini: "Not just a new film, “The Cosmonaut” is a labor of love four years in the making, crowdsourced and created with a plan to test the boundaries of transmedia content distribution worldwide." Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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Great new possible processes of being a contemporary playwright are explored in this project; with the script available online (although not through this link, beware), this might make an interesting "play" to study, if the students had not said that _Hamlet_ was such a boon... :) 
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May 11, 10:47 AM
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May 13, 8:32 AM
That will be interesting to check them out in a while and see if it caught up, found its audience, and eventually generated worthy user interaction. Because that's what it always come down to: is there a perceivable added-value to all these? - except the PR bragging right of doing things differently. Delete the scoop?
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"Romenesko readers love the “Things We Do Not Say in Outlook” list from the Washington Post." Here he tells us the story behind his list of words and phrases to avoid.
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This would make a great assignment for a writing class: to watch the world for current cliches and to discuss what they really mean and why they are so often used, like "in today's society." In a literature class, it would tie nicely into a discussion of stereotypes used in stories as shorthand kernels of meaning, anticipating quick understanding by audiences.
I think about the Definition paper assignment that I used to give, asking them to collect definitions of one word or phrase all semester long and then to write a paper at the end telling what they found; this would have made a great ancillary assignment for that semester. Delete the scoop?
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A line-by-line dramatic verse analysis of Hamlet's speech in Act III, scene 1.
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Shakespeare's _Hamlet_ "To Be, or Not To Be" speech, line by line, with poetic scansion, and explanations of phrases like "slings and arrows" and "outrageous fortune." Delete the scoop?
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David Tennant as Hamlet in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's greatest play. Directed by Gregory Doran Broad...
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By about 1:30, he's made my heart hurt. Beautiful. Delete the scoop?
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LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 30,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.
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Audio books for auditory "readers." There are free downloads here as well as the "dollar today" downloads that are frequently bestsellers (that have admittedly usually already shown up on listserv or newsgroup DL packs, but nonetheless!).
If you are my student, I encourage you to not just listen, like a passive potato, but to read along with the reader, annotating your text to show your active reading. Delete the scoop?
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Jessamyn West's Donald Barthelme collection. Stories, bits of stories, essays -- all done with permission.
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I can't express enough thanks to Jessamyn.com for keeping these stories up. Barthelme's writing makes me feel all wobbly in my architecture. Delete the scoop?
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We have a romantic attachment to skills from the past which are no longer relevant on a curriculum for today's children Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES
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Why we sit in groups around computers when we do research in my classes. :-) 
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June 16, 7:36 PM
At the centre of this article there is truth, which is that our children need "new" skills and new ways of developing and using the "old" ones. However, I think there is room for them all, if the curriculum is formulated the right way. Inquiry-based learning, letting the kids ask a question and then search for the answer using a number of resources, is definitely the way to go. Personally I think there will ALWAYS be a place for being able to do maths the old fashioned way, so you understand how it works, but there is also a time to let the technology take you further, to increase that understanding. Room for both. 
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Linda Alexander summarised my thoughts beautifully!
'While I agree with the basis of this article, we do have a romantic attachment to the past, especially parents who want their children to experience schools as they DID, I don't completely agree with this article. There are reasons for understanding the "way things work" and there are reasons for knowing one's history--as Winston Churchill said, "Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it." That said, this article really speaks to the way we go about learning and, yes, that has really changed.'
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Linda Alexander summarised it well!
'While I agree with the basis of this article, we do have a romantic attachment to the past, especially parents who want their children to experience schools as they DID, I don't completely agree with this article. There are reasons for understanding the "way things work" and there are reasons for knowing one's history--as Winston Churchill said, "Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it." That said, this article really speaks to the way we go about learning and, yes, that has really changed.' Delete the scoop?
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The University System of Georgia and big university systems in nine other states have announced a joint partnership with a large educational technology company to offer massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
“In time, the Georgia efforts will serve as a clearinghouse of high quality, affordable, complementary credit pathways developed by USG institutions and utilizing MOOC and MOOC-like resources,” according to Thursday’s university system announcement. "Those pathways might include core courses, high-demand associate degree completion options, master’s and undergraduate degree programs, and support courses, according to the announcement."
Deanya Lattimore's insight:
Oohh yes, "support courses" might be offered in MOOCs? You mean the courses that help students deal with the courses that they already can't deal with?
Here's what I see happening with this: the cost of these courses will be much less, and students who don't do well in online environments will have to drop out of them to take more expensive face-to-face options. The idea of throwing "support courses," which in my mind are math and writing, into the mix seems ridiculous and wrong-headed to me.
And just--by the way--why is everyone conflating teaching online with teaching asynchronously? They are NOT the same thing by default.
(And yes, the only pictures available on the site show lots of people together in people-centered activities, like sports and learning together in classrooms, so that's why this scoop has a baseball player's picture there. Maybe they will take baseball into MOOCs.... Why not?) Delete the scoop?
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"The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader." Delete the scoop?
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From its premiere at the turn of the 17th century, Hamlet has remained Shakespeare's best-known, most-imitated, and most-analyzed play. The character of Hamlet played a critical role in Sigmund Freud's explanation of the Oedipus complex and thus influenced modern psychology.[1] Even within the narrower field of literature, the play's influence has been strong. As Foakes writes, "No other character's name in Shakespeare's plays, and few in literature, have come to embody an attitude to life [...] and been converted into a noun in this way."[2] Interpretations of Hamlet in Shakespeare's day were very concerned with the play's portrayal of madness. The play was also often portrayed more violently than in later times.[3] The play's contemporary popularity is suggested both by the five quartos that appeared in Shakespeare's lifetime and by frequent contemporary references (though at least some of these could be to the so-called ur-Hamlet).[4] These allusions suggest that by the early Jacobean period the play was famous for the ghost and for its dramatization of melancholy and insanity. The procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama frequently appears indebted to Hamlet. Other aspects of the play were also remembered. Looking back on Renaissance drama in 1655, Abraham Wright lauds the humor of the gravedigger's scene, although he suggests that Shakespeare was outdone by Thomas Randolph, whose farcical comedy The Jealous Lovers features both a travesty of Ophelia and a graveyard scene.[5] There is some scholarly speculation that Hamlet may have been censored during this period: see Contexts: Religious below. Theatres were closed under the Puritan Commonwealth, which ran from 1640–1660. When the monarchy was restored in 1660, theatres re-opened. Early interpretations of the play, from the late 17th to early 18th century, typically showed Prince Hamlet as a heroic figure.[citation needed] Critics responded to Hamlet in terms of the same dichotomy that shaped all responses to Shakespeare during the period. On the one hand, Shakespeare was seen as primitive and untutored, both in comparison to later English dramatists such as Fletcher and especially when measured against the neoclassical ideals of art brought back from France with the Restoration. On the other, Shakespeare remained popular not just with mass audiences but even with the very critics made uncomfortable by his ignorance of Aristotle's unities and decorum.
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A good wikipedia page to hold on to, as we move into the many different ways of reading that good literature affords us. Delete the scoop?
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Hamlet Navigator for Shakespeare's famous play Hamlet.
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And boy, the Hamlet Navigator landing page is fantastic, so it deserves a full scoop here as well. Delete the scoop?
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E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages Via Susan Bainbridge, Deanya Lattimore
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Reading literature in digital environments.
But for the record, consult also the journal, _Computers and Composition_, at http://computersandcomposition.candcblog.org/default.html , which has been publishing research into the effects of computers on reading and writing since 1983. 
Deanya Lattimore's curator insight,
May 14, 8:29 AM
Nicely written bibliographic essay by Ferris Jabr in the _Scientific American_, with some links to additional research in the comments. When I was first reading, I like the first commenter was struck that studies from my field and its journal, _Computers and Composition_, did not make the article.
But multidisciplinary scholars can only come at what they know from their own disciplinary perspectives, and it's the "outsider's" job to make more people aware of the research that their disciplinary foreparents did so long ago in their own fields.
To that way, a link to _Computers and Composition_, a journal whose purpose has been to study the effects of computers on reading and writing since 1983. http://computersandcomposition.candcblog.org/ ;
Jabr has additional very well written articles, coming from psychology and cognitive brain research, on the _Scientific American_ site as well. 
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I like and dislike the e-readers. The idea is fantastic but I think Im going to hold of using them as I just love the smell of paper books. Delete the scoop?
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"For as much as $20,000 per script, Mr. Bruzzese and a team of analysts compare the story structure and genre of a draft script with those of released movies, looking for clues to box-office success."
"'Demons in horror movies can target people or be summoned,' Mr. Bruzzese said in a gravelly voice, by way of example. 'If it’s a targeting demon, you are likely to have much higher opening-weekend sales than if it’s summoned. So get rid of that Ouija Board scene.'" Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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Literary analysis becomes a big business. :-)
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Free-eBooks.net is the internet's #1 source for free eBook downloads, eBook resources & eBook authors. Read & download eBooks for Free: anytime!
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Looks promising. Delete the scoop?
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A list of phrases that the _Washington Post_ encourages its writers to avoid. The journalistic equivalent of "in today's society" is on the list. Delete the scoop?
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Perform a textual analysis of Hamlet, or any of Shakespeare's other plays and poems, using the tools on this website. Great primary research website. Delete the scoop?
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In this lecture Professor Michael Drout focuses on language as a whole and how it develops and is learned. He points out the amazing ability that children have for speaking and comprehending a language...
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Listening to the host's introduction of the professor is a great exercise to identify bias in scholarship. I have not yet heard whether the professor has a decidedly English and greater European / dominant culture spin on the history of language, but I'm betting the answer is "yes." Delete the scoop?
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Useful citation guide for social media tools! COOL TOOLS! Delete the scoop?
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An online reprint of a story, "The Jazz in Her Soul," by Darlene Cah.