Secondary school pupils can now access a live performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ thanks to an audio recording from the National Strategies. A performance of the play, produced by Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, has been captured as an audio recording to help pupils experience this tale of ‘star-crossed’ lovers. It can be downloaded free onto an MP3 player, iPod or computer and it appears on a dedicated teaching Shakespeare area which also boasts Secondary National Strategies resources on the Bard and his works.

Alternatively, for those students wanting to experience Shakespeare through augmented reality, ConnectED Education are working with Cambridge University Press to add a new layer of information to Romeo and Juliet by placing semacodes within the text. Using a PSP (PlayStation Portable) the student can activate these codes and play a related piece of media including audio tracks and video enactments of particular scenes.

For more information on this project and the potential of augmented reality for learning, check out the latest Futurelab podcast ‘Augmented reality‘, available online now.

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