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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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Software Recommendations for Use in Drama and Theater
Software must be tested for CCSD server compatibility
before it is purchased. Please contact the Department of Educational
Technology for information on software purchasing information.
Elaine_Berry@charleston.k12.sc.us
 Photo
Editor
This software is available on most CCSD computers. It is a simple
photo editing software that allows students and teachers to crop,
enlarge, and edit digital pictures to use for the web, for PowerPoint
presentations, on bulletin boards, and in many other ways in the
classroom.
Netscape Composer
This software for creating web pages is available within the Netscape
browser. Students can create web pages on any given topic they
have researched. These web pages can be attached to eChalk class
pages, in addition to a teacher’s web site.
Microsoft Publisher
This desktop publishing software comes with CCSD computers as
part of Microsoft Office. In this application students can create
newsletters, brochures, flyers, and more.
Microsoft Word
This software is available on all CCSD computers. Students can
word process all written work, adding clip art, digital images
an more. Check out the standard templates for letters, memos,
and other written works.
PowerPoint
This presentation software, available on all CCSD computers, allows
students to develop presentations for many subjects. Many of the
language arts standards have to do with research and oral presentations.
PowerPoint is a must for meeting those standards.
Access
The data base, which is an application in the Microsoft Office
suite on CCSD computers, can be used in language arts for collection
of all kinds of data. The data can be organized into forms and
tables for easy access, management, and querying.
Excel
The spreadsheet program in Microsoft Office is useful in language
arts for creating charts and graphs with collected data. These
graphs can be inserted into PowerPoint presentations or Word documents.
HyperStudio
This authoring program allows students to create slides with student
created animations, pop up windows, scroll boxes, and programmed
buttons. Student reports and presentations can contain these added
features.
Inspiration
This organizational software allows students to create their own
organizers to help clarify thinking, deepen understanding of content,
and increase retention in a creative way.
Kidspiration
This is a user-friendly, open-ended graphic organizer program
for students in grades K-3. It allows students (and teachers)
to create their own graphic organizers for any content area. It
develops organizational skills, helps clarify thinking, deepens
understanding of content, increases retention and taps into creativity.
Kid Pix
More than just an art program, Kid Pix is also a powerful, easy-to-use
multimedia program. With the slide show feature, students can
prepare animated reports and create slide shows with special effects
including sounds and screen transitions. This powerful feature
lends itself to applications all across the curriculum, from book
reports, to science projects, classroom documentaries, and more.
As students interweave text, sounds, and graphics, they expand
their sense of narrative from static images to storytelling sequences.
Timeliner
This easy-to-use software allows students to create timelines.
These timelines can be used to sequence stories, identify characters,
or create plot structure for language arts students.
eChalk Email
eChalk allows all students to have an email account. This service
is provided by CCSD to enable teachers to meet the standard of
electronic communication for students.
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