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Project Blueprint

Project Blueprint. Lisa Rampton Halverson IPT 560: Dr. Rich Winter 2011. Purpose. Goal: To help users better understand a text, in this case, the “Quality of Mercy” speech by Portia from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.

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Project Blueprint

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  1. Project Blueprint Lisa Rampton Halverson IPT 560: Dr. Rich Winter 2011

  2. Purpose • Goal: To help users better understand a text, in this case, the “Quality of Mercy” speech by Portia from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. • Audience: Advanced high school or university students of Shakespeare. • The tool, using Flash animation, will help users pay closer attention to patterns and motifs in a text.

  3. Approach • Technologies: • Flash for animated text activities. In addition, within Flash, the product will include • Video clips for users who want to see the passage acted out • Audio for users who want to hear the passage read • Paradigm: The learning tool will provide an instructional experience that has different layers depending on what the user wants • Some choices will be driven by the design. • Some choices will be user driven.

  4. Flow & Function • Flow: a story-board of how users will progress through the learning product • Function: the way different aspects of the program will work when clicked on or through other interactions • See ensuing slides for both flow and function.

  5. This will be animated, the one which users should click to move forward Layer by Layer: Beneath the Surface of a Literary Text Opening Page Function: Captures interest. When they click on the gold casket, the users are taken to “Introduction to the Text.”

  6. Audio option The passage itself (with mouse-over options for difficult vocabulary) Video option Context/ Plot Summary Introduction to the Text Function: Gives reader the text to read, and offers additional options to hear and/or view it. Also offers vocabulary assistance and basic plot summary.

  7. Sometimes from her eyes / I did receive fair speechless messages” Notice Exact Repetitions Strands of Related Repetitions Binaries (organizing contrasts) Anomalies • My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! • Salario & Solanio? Wordle w/ strands? • Antonio vs Shylock, or justice vs mercy • Thus ornament is but the guiled shore / To a most dangerous sea Layers/Analysis Splash Page Function: Users may choose between a variety of ways to analyze the text. Each option will feature a video clip (or an image?) of a single line that fits the pattern featured, which plays as the option is clicked/chosen. Once users click into an option, the type of analysis will be explained briefly. Then the passage will appear with highlighting featuring that type of patterning in the text.

  8. The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:'Tismightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe thronedmonarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway;It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself; And earthlypower doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,Though justice be thy plea, consider this,That, in the course of justice, none of usShould see salvation: we do pray for mercy;And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy. An audio (textual?) explanation can explain the concept of “strands” Analysis: Strands of Related Repetitions Function: After a very brief explanation (audio?) of what “strands of related repetition” are, the text will feature animated highlighting of a couple of different possible strands in the passage. At the end, students must select what they think are the 3 most significant strands, and are then encouraged to write a paragraph about what they have found important.

  9. So What? Function: I just want to include a place for students to write about their more overarching / most interesting insights. *** PER IN CLASS DISCUSSION – MAKE ALL WRITING STEPS SHOW ON THIS PAGE ***

  10. So may the outward shows be least themselves… On Your Own If you prick us, shall we not bleed? Function: Here users may choose between two other important passages in The Merchant of Venice. They will then be prompted to use the steps of analysis covered before, though without all the highlighting provided them.

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