{"id":2706,"date":"2014-07-18T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2014-07-24T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:06:28","slug":"elaines-second-media-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/2014\/07\/18\/elaines-second-media-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine’s Second Media Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my second media project, I decided to create a fake twitter page for Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott”. <\/p>\n

Here is the project:<\/p>\n

faketwittertemplate<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought of this idea because I think we can relate to the Lady of Shalott’s isolation. Whereas she is trapped in a tower and can only view the outside world from the reflections in her mirror, we sit at our laptops with our eyes glued to our screens from which we glean bits of news. I also saw us posting tweets and facebook status updates as us “weaving” our own personal narratives. Originally, I had planned on creating an art installation, but the logistics were too complicated, so I decided to focus solely on the modernized aspect. I googled “Twitter in the classroom” and found a teacher’s blog where the teacher had posted a twitter page for William Shakespeare (http:\/\/ichooseawesome.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/17\/choose-a-fake-twitter-template\/). I downloaded his template and changed all the pictures and text to create a page for the Lady of Shalott. I chose to create a fake twitter page instead of creating a new twitter account because not all students have twitter and they may not be comfortable with posting their assignments publicly on the “twitterverse”.<\/p>\n

I think this could be an engaging way for students to try to relate to a character and see things from his or her perspective. I would evaluate students on their ability to capture the tone and theme of the literary work in the tweets and hashtags. Please do feel free to use this fake twitter template if you so wish.<\/p>\n

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Here is the template itself in editable form:<\/p>\n

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