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Campbell, Coleman, Law, Lee, Solis – Macbeth and Twitter

For our media project, we decided to paraphrase Macbeth Act 2, Scene 3 into tweets. See rationale and presentation attached.

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TMD // Jul 16th 2014 at 10:26 am

Dear Kara, Roberta, Adrienne, Angela, and Kevin,

Thanks very much for this humorous and creative contribution! I enjoyed your in-class performance very much, along with the interesting discussion it generated on the rhetoric of hash tags.

I appreciate your uploading the pdf facsimile of the project, which offers an exemplar for those wishing to replicate this assignment with their own students.

The write up is clear and comprehensive. I suppose one question I might have concerns the meaning of “creative” on the assessment rubric. Presently it appears hashtags are somehow synonymous with creativity. Why is that so?

You seem to have adapted your assessment rubric from the one here: http://www.teacherstechworkshop.com/2013/10/assessing-twitter-rubric-for.html , which doesn’t really fit the bill (the only commonality in the nature of the assignments is Twitter). I wonder if it would be better to adapt your rubric from one designed simply to assess assignments involving modernization of Shakespearean language and then add the Twitter elements. For example, there’s one here: http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=R95798&sp=true .

Thanks again for your contribution!

Best regards,

Teresa

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