Most English teachers are familiar with this technique — in which students turn a text, often part of a novel, into a script, and then perform it in an impromptu setting — but we think it is a strategy that teachers can use to help students elucidate sophisticated nonfiction on topics in science, history, civics, politics, education, technology, health and the arts as well.
The biggest change coming: the ability to seamlessly turn a text chat into a voice or video chat will begin testing "very soon".
Betty's credit is that she not merely published a powerful brief for women's rights at the right time, but that she spent a lifetime helping turn a text into a major -- indeed worldwide -- social movement that already had and continues to have major socially-transforming effects.
You can turn a text chat into a video chat at any time.
In this Q&A, John Metcalf explains how he turned a classic text into an opera.
To give the actors a sense of what excited him about the musical, Timbers turned to a text published in 1896: the preface of Mark Twain's "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," a fictionalized retelling of her life.
But, just how do you go about turning a classic text into an interactive app?
Continuing in the rodent theme, Greenlee turned a 12th-century Latin text, "Regarding the Man Who Was Torn Asunder by Mice," from the "Gesta Regum Anglorum" ("Deeds of the Kings of the English") into a children's picture book.
Text messaging turned a box that could make phone calls into something that you could use to - for example - surreptitiously flirt with someone exciting while having a really dull day at work.
"The world turned a blind eye," an opening text insert reads, explaining that Indonesia invaded East Timor nine days after the country declared independence following 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
