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The "Alas, poor Yorick!" department:
By Terry Freedman
Mon, 22 May 2006, 18:01

Hamlet scenario: a different context for Google jockeys etc. I have answered some comments made about my post about live blogging etc. But here I wish to explore whether that stuff works in a completely different setting to the usual speaker-audience one.
    
1.  Live production of Hamlet
2.  Live forum discussion projected on stage covering issues such as the merits of using the Folio version as opposed to the Quarto version, the directing, the acting, the scenery.
3. A goggle jockey is looking up words like "poltroon" to define them for the audience.
4. The actors are sent sms messages asking them questions about their characters, so that they can interact with the audience after the final scene.

My questions are:
1. Would this represent a legitimate use of the technology to (a)
     an ordinary audience and (b) a school audience?
2. Why/why not?
3. Are there non-technological limits to the successful application of such technology, such as:
            a) Our capacity to so-called "multi-task"
            b) cultural mores?

There is an expanded version of these ideas on my Technology & Learning blog.


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© Terry Freedman Mon, 22 May 2006