Greetings students and fellow Shakespeare
fans! I've decided to be more intentional with the information
on the front page of Shakespeare High. My goal is a weekly
"blog" that provides a bit of information about our boy
Bill! The following is an archive of each entry:
-
1/11/07
~ New
-> The fourth podcast
will be delayed a bit.
The third podcast in the Tiddle-Taddle
Pibble-Babble series is up. You can give it a
quick listen with the Odeo player to the right, subscribe
in iTunes, or link directly from the Shakespeare
High Podcast Center in the PAC. Be sure
to check out the show
notes in the Cafeteria and leave comments.
The only way the podcast will improve is if you let me know
what you like, don't like, and want to hear in the
future. Be a part of the show by sending e-mail to podcast@shakespearehigh.com
and/or sending a voice mail through the Shakespeare
High Podcast Odeo page. I look forward to
hearing from you!
-
1/10/07
~ Happy New
Year! The Cafeteria
is finally open! You will have to re-register
with a working e-mail address for verification. I
created my first official Shakespeare
High podcast tonight! Check out the show
notes in the Cafeteria and subscribe to the feed
using the links in the PAC!
Please go back to the Cafeteria
and let me know what you think.
-
12/25/06
~ Merry
Christmas! I'm taking a little break
from my Christmas cleaning to wish you all a happy
holiday! I decided to stay home this Christmas so that
I could get my spring cleaning done early since I'm in the
middle of directing R&J. I know that I won't think
about cleaning anything for the next 8 weeks!
;-) I'm also taking some time to get the new message
board up and running. I was trying to convert the old
board over, but I'm having a tough time dealing with my
ISP. They keep shutting down the old board, so I don't
have a chance to do the backup and conversion. The
good news is that I did a Google search for some of our old
topics, and they have the pages cached. If you really
want to retrieve an old topic, that's the way to do it. You
can simply cut and paste the old posts into a new
discussion. It's a bit of a pain, but at least it is
doable. I hope you all have a lovely day with your
families!
- 12/17/06
~ IMPORTANT NOTICE:
7:30pm
PST Update: My power has been out since the wind
storm in the Pacific Northwest last Thursday. It recently
came back on, so we were finally able to disband the "fort of
warmth" we created in the living room and cook a real
meal! I have over 500 e-mail messages to wade through now,
but I can see that the cafeteria has been down since
Thursday. Again, I send my apologies to the students
studying Hamlet and hope that your teacher will understand
that the technical difficulties were unavoidable. For my
long-term members, please check back at the first of the year for
a new and improved cafeteria!
- 12/13/06
~ IMPORTANT NOTICE: 11:30pm
PST Update: Wow...I can't believe I've spent 2
hours on this tonight! So much for going to bed early.
The good news is that the board is up...for now. The bad
news is that hackers are exploiting it which caused the shut
down. If they continue (which they will...this has been
going on for a couple years now), my entire site will be shut down
for at least 24-hours. I'm running that risk in hopes that
the Hamlet
students will be able to complete their work by Friday. If
the site does go down, I won't be able to fix it until winter
break since I'm directing R&J right now. Whether the
site goes down or not, I must get a new message board, so please
be sure to copy any old messages you want saved, because we will
most likely lose the entire archive. That truly breaks my
heart...we've had a lot of amazing discussions for many years in
the Cafeteria/DZ; I hate to lose that!
- 12/13/06
~ IMPORTANT NOTICE: 9:30pm
PST Update: It appears that the Cafeteria has
been unavailable since approximately 2:30 this afternoon.
I've received many frantic e-mails concerning this as many of you
are trying to complete a class assignment. It's currently
9:30pm PST, and I'm going to do everything in my power to get the
board up and running tonight. The few things I've tried so
far have not worked, so I'm not feeling really confident right
now. I apologize for the inconvenience. I'll post a
message here as soon as the Cafeteria is back in
business.
P.S. In the meantime, I
suggest passing the time by listening to one of my podcasts
in the PAC or
checking out one of the fun activities in the Student
area!
- 6/22/06
~
Shakespeare High
joins
the podcasting revolution! As the school year draws to
a close, the site hasn't had much traffic...including
me. I've been busy finishing my year (only 3 more
days!), attending rehearsals for MOV (opens in a month), and
taking an online podcasting class (2 weeks down, 2 more to
go). I am loving this class. Take a listen to
these podcasts:
I'm currently creating
podcast tutorials for Shakespeare
High and am brainstorming ideas for a SH "radio
show"! Visit the Cafeteria
to help with the brainstorm session. I created a
new "SH
Podcast" forum for our discussion!
- New
> I took the
leap and added a podcast
page to the PAC!
Check it out and then make comments in the Cafeteria.
Thanks!
- 3/25/06
~ Make sure you check out the news
article about Shakespeare Behind Bars! I'm
really excited about seeing this documentary. I'm planning
on seeing it in Seattle on Saturday, April 1, so I'm hoping some
of you will be able to join me. The film reminds me of an
experience I had with one of my former alternative school
students. When he went to the state prison, he wrote to me
and said that there was a long waiting list for the Complete
Works of Shakespeare in the prison library. I sent him
several plays so he wouldn't have to wait! When he got out,
he joined a short-lived Shakespeare company I founded, and we saw
several Shakespeare productions together. He has grown into
a fine adult with a beautiful wife and kids; I'm so proud of the
man he has become! I hope that this film not only shows
people the life-altering power of Shakespeare's language and plays
but also the power of forgiveness. Watch
the trailer to learn even more!
- 3/14/06
~ "Beware the Ides of
March!"
During a Shakespeare exercise yesterday, I asked my
students if they knew what the Ides of March was; although
some had guesses, none of them really knew. I'm going
to put Wikipedia's
Ides of March URL on the board on Wednesday so the
kids can learn the origin of the Ides. At the bottom
of the article, it lists other uses of the phrase. I
knew about the Iron Maiden song and the novel, but I had
never heard of the band or the Xena episode. I
didn't watch Xena, but I'm going to have to try and
catch this episode on the Oxygen
network since I'm a big Shakespeare in popular culture
fan! On a bit of a side note, Lucy Lawless appeared on
Battlestar
Galactica this season and has a 10-episode arc
next season.
- 3/8/06
~ Okay, kids, here is one from the
random file. I don't know how I discovered this...oh,
yes I do! I'm currently procrastinating; I'm messing
around with this site instead of typing up the final I'm
giving tomorrow. So, I guess that finding the
following is fitting. I ran across the official
"Too Much Coffee Man" website, which is a comic
strip created by Shannon Wheeler. I found it while
doing a Google search for Shakespeare images. Here is
a comic
strip that uses a sonnet. I tried to learn
more about "Too Much Coffee Man" on the
website, but I got too distracted by the
comics! Honestly, I don't find most of them to be all
that funny, but a few did hit home and made me laugh.
- 12/5/05
~ Star Trek & Christmas
- 12/12/05
~ Speeding Ticket (this isn't really funny, but I sure
can relate since I just got a ticket in my new car...argh!)
- 2/13/06
~ Technology overload (I can SO relate to this! It
really made me laugh, because I've been feeling the need
to simplify my life. I need to print this one out
and then go read a book!).
- 3/6/06
~ Do cameras steal our souls? This is good!
So, what do you think? Visit
the Cafeteria to discuss this topic.
- 2/28/06
~ In the Shakespeare
News section of the Cafeteria,
I like to include interesting current event articles about
Shakespeare. Each news item is automatically linked to
the front page, so be sure to check it first when visiting
the site. When looking back through the news archives,
I realize that I don't focus much on specific
performances. I think this is because I read Mike
LoMonico's blog, News
on the Rialto, and don't feel the need to repeat
that information here. Although I link to his blog
elsewhere, I'm realizing that some of you may have missed
it, so I'm adding a permanent link to the front page.
Mike linked to a fun Shakespeare
in the Movies quiz a couple of days ago, and I
earned a 9 out of 10. It said that I'm "either
Kenneth Branagh or a English literature student with far too
much time on your hands" like that is a bad
thing! FYI--I missed the question about Peter Sellars;
I guess I know which film
I need to watch!
- 2/21/06
~ It has been nearly a
year since I last updated this section, and that is simply
pathetic! I've been reading a lot of blogs lately and
wondering how people have time to update them; I would not be a
successful blog owner. That being said, I am going to make
more of an effort to add bits and pieces to this site each
week. It won't be much--simply a link here or there or some
interesting tidbit I picked up while reading. So, check this
space weekly. Check the news section. Post in the
cafeteria. Read the plays, go to local productions, rent the
videos, and then come back here and share your thoughts with the
rest of us.
So, for my first
weekly tidbit--check out the Slings
and Arrows topic I posted in the
cafeteria! I'm really excited about the new
season. Each season has only six episodes, but they are
fantastic. If you haven't seen the show, be sure to check it
out! ~ Amy
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