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Interactive Multimedia Course Brings Shakespeare to Life for High School Students

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The Shakespeare Project, an innovative interactive multimedia course, has made William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" accessible to high school students in a engaging and immersive way. Developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, telecommunications company U S WEST Communications, and technology developer ThunderWave Inc., the course uses advanced technology to deliver video, pictures, sound, graphics, animation, and text about Shakespeare and the Elizabethan era. The program can store and deliver hundreds of hours of video and other information, making it a game-changer for students who struggle with traditional learning methods.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Shakespeare Project is an interactive multimedia course that brings Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to life for high school students, using video, pictures, sound, graphics, animation, and text to engage learners.
  • The course was developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, U S WEST Communications, and ThunderWave Inc., leveraging advanced technology to deliver interactive content.
  • The program can store and deliver hundreds of hours of video and other information, making it a potential solution for educational institutions and businesses alike.
  • The course includes a wealth of accessible and easy-to-understand information, such as visual glossaries, audio pronunciation guides, and stores of photograph and video clips, that make Shakespeare's work exciting and interesting to all students.
  • Teachers can use the system to make assignments, administer quizzes, and even send finished work to the teacher via electronic mail.
  • The program makes it easier to bring together aspects of learning that are usually treated separately, such as images of disease, history, biology, and epidemiology, to create a more comprehensive understanding of the subject.
  • The course has the potential to connect hundreds of school districts at once, across the street or across the nation, making it a scalable solution for education.
  • U S WEST Communications and ThunderWave Inc. collaborated to produce the course, supporting the integration of learning resources into the desktops of both students and teachers.

Statistics:

  • The Shakespeare Project can store and deliver hundreds of hours of video and other information.
  • The course includes a visual glossary, an audio pronunciation guide, and stores of photograph and video clips to aid student understanding.
  • NetFRAME Systems' ClusterServer technology enables the delivery of interactive content to multiple computers at once, making it a scalable solution for education.
  • The program makes it easier to bring together aspects of learning that are usually treated separately, such as images of disease, history, biology, and epidemiology.

Sources:

  • U S West, Cathy Fowler, 303-793-6509
  • ThunderWave, Bill Stern, 202-333-4040
  • NetFRAME Systems, Peter Dave, 415-882-9905
  • U S WEST Communications, Annette Leal, vice president of Public Sector
  • ThunderWave Inc., Yechiam Halevy, president
  • NetFRAME Systems Incorporated, Bob Puette, president and CEO
  • U S WEST executive vice president of Markets, Catherine Hapka

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