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Teachers Win $1000 with Pixton Shakespeare Project

June 9, 2009

Congratulations to the Doris Miller Junior High School teaching team for winning the Time Warner Cable's Spotlight on Education Award for their project called “Pixton with Shakespeare.” The project made it all the way to the national finals for the National Spotlight award.

The team of Kelly Blanks, Melissa Dupré, Grace Mueller and Roxann Tull each received $125 and a plaque and will split a $500 team award, in addition to Miller receiving a $1,000 technology grant.

The Miller eighth grade Language Arts Department was studying “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, and the teachers wanted enrich the experience through the use of technology. They used Pixton to create a scene from "The Tempest”. Team member Mueller said, “Using their own interpretation of the scene, students developed the cartoon.”

We are very pleased that Pixton is making a difference in enriching students' experience of Shakespeare. Interactive web comics are a valuable tool in the classroom, to supplement conventional reading materials as well as to give students another way to express their ideas. The success of this project will undoubtedly be an inspiration to others - again, well done!

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