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"...above all, a work
for young people must not talk down to its audience, because they
can always tell. Kids are tougher than any theatre critic. They
will easily expose a playwright who doesn't deliver a story that
is tight as a trap but also lyrical, focused while being fast-moving,
believable but still fantastic, while it challenges them and makes
them question . . .."
Frumi Cohen
"The nervous system
of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And
if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,
the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances,
sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness."
Tennessee Williams
"The health of a nation,
a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted
of television and our movies that they not have anything to do
with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand
this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the
visual-auditory arts -- save the dance (in which nobody talks)
and music (to which nobody listens)?"
Edward Albee
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Technology Integration Ideas for
Drama and Theater
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Videotape students during class as they perform monologues or
scenes. Students can then analyze and critique their own work.
2. Develop a multimedia teaching
experience, using HyperStudio which allows students to view separate
"stacks" of knowledge for various instructional units,
plays, or stagecraft skills and concepts. Stacks can include digital
video clips or still images. At the end of each stack, include
a quiz, which enables each student to test his or her knowledge.
Students who utilize this program enjoy learning in a multimedia
setting.
Students can create their own projects in HyperStudio to support
and build on concepts learned in class.
4. Email parents a positive message about their child. Include
a picture of him/her participating during drama class.
5. Create or use an existing WebQuest that allows students to
research a specific drama topic on the Internet. Then create a
final project or product using that research.
6. Create and display a slide show of photographs of theatre
topics for discussion or a game.
7. Create a web page in Composer or Dreamweaver.
Post it on eChalk. It can display class rules, class
projects, contact information, and resources for students and
parents.
8. Students rotate (alone or in groups) to a computer and go
to a specific web site to perform a specific task, or research
a specific time period or character. This can also be done in
a computer lab with the whole class.
9. Students use mapping software (Inspiration) to map ideas for
creating monologues, scenes, or plays. Students use Inspiration
to map character research and exploration ideas.
10. Prepare a spreadsheet for students to fill out information
on characters or historical research.
11. Students create a photo essay by collecting digital images
from the Internet depicting a theme, such as a time period, an
emotion, or a scene idea. Insert these images into a PowerPoint
or HyperStudio presentation and add music or text. Present the
photo essay to the class.
12. Students create a brochure in Publisher promoting a play
or theme.
13. Students keep a daily log of character development, scene
ideas, notes and thoughts.
14. Check out the video streaming web site http://streamlinesc.org
accessible to CCSD teachers beginning in the fall of 2005. Search
for videos on drama, theatre, dance, creative movement and plays.
Digital pictures are also available to help illustrate a topic.
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