I was reading the article Teacher Shake Up Shakespeare with Mixed Media from the google RSS reader from Edutopia and I was really impressed with the videos the students created of a rap they wrote to further explore MacBeth by Shakespeare. This gave the students a real outlet to showcase their understanding and allowed the students to be creative. Together they collaborated their ideas and differentiated Shakespeare's word and revised his literature into a modern day terminology.

I remember studying Romeo and Juliet in my 9th grade English class and it simply went in one ear and out the other. However, as I read and viewed the video clips associated with this article, I questioned...would I have been more motivated to understand Shakespeare if I had the ability to create a rap, song, or play promoting the key ideas that present in the literature? Heck Yea!