Prospero

Creating a smartscript in Prospero is designed to feel as natural as planning and structuring an in-person learning session.

First you’ll create a series of ‘scenes’. Scenes can be any content that will stimulate learning, thinking and creativity. You can incorporate your existing digital content - videos, music, photographs or text, and mix-and-match it with live content from anywhere on the internet.

News websites, Google Maps, Images, Wikipedia or Youtube can all be incorporated, meaning your Smartscripts can be ever-changing and always up to date.

You’ll then layer each ‘scene’ with instructions, tasks and guidance that learners will need to explore and engage with the materials. Within a Smartscript you can ask questions, provoke conversations, and get learners up on their feet interacting with tasks and activities.

Want to give learners a fixed time to complete an activity? Include a timed section. Or give control to the session facilitator and learners, and let them progress through the Smartscript at their own pace.

Perhaps you want to carefully structure your Smartscript with a beginning, middle and end, and a specific order for activities to be completed. You can do that in Prospero. Or maybe you prefer to let groups choose their own pathway: you can do that too, with Prospero’s interactive ‘choose your own adventure’ style options. Create characters, pose dilemmas, set challenges to solve.

Have fun gamifying your Smartscripts in infinite ways, to make them playful and engaging.

You can even create multiple versions of your smartscripts, aimed at different levels, abilities or interests, or developed for specific schools or groups. And unlike a traditional downloadable resource pack, you can tweak and develop smartscripts over time, as you learn more about how they are being used in the real world.

When you become a Prospero Producer, you’ll get your own customisable Prospero channel in the Prospero Library. Here you can share all of your smartscripts, and choose whether they are available publicly or shared privately with your contacts. Make them available for free, or choose to monetise your smartscripts seamlessly, using our inbuilt payment system

Prospero is designed to work seamlessly on (almost) any device, using a simple browser extension. This means that both Producers and educators can access and use the system on the computers and tablets they already have in their classrooms and organisations, bypassing any IT headaches and getting straight on with the creative learning.