A New Experience in English 12

   

    One new experience I got the chance to have this semester in English 12 was working with an app known as "Book Creator App." We were given the chance to pick our groups and create a digital short story on the famous "To Be or Not to Be..." soliloquy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The objective of the assignment was to recreate the famous soliloquy into a modern language read for the class. Since I am a creative person, I really enjoyed being able to create a short story by recording our voices and adding images to represent the dialogue. It is always great when teachers assign different types of projects to allow students who are not usually strong in one aspect of the curriculum, to be able to show their strength in something else that is different to the "norms." More fun and different projects like creating digital books? YES PLEASE! 

A clip on the Book Creator App: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F4JFCyQ3vc

An interesting article on the success rate of ios apps in this generation: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/ios-app-success-is-a-lottery-and-60-of-developers-dont-break-even/