Getting students to work with lighting can sometimes be very daunting and difficult. There is a big jump between simply designing what you want from a lighting design on a piece of paper, to actually using the lanterns and creating lighting states. Here are five activities that will help you make the jump into getting students to work realistically and productively with lanterns and lighting states. Continue reading Shining a light onto Lighting Design
Scene Saver is a treasure trove of theatre and a great resource for Drama teachers and theatre lovers. Described at the Netflix for off West End and Fringe Theatre performances, it has something for everyone and bound to please. Continue reading Technology in Drama: Review of Scene Saver
A 15 minute CPD session on using Flipped Learning in Drama will help you achieve more time in the Drama Studio working on creating theatre with students. In this session you will learn the essentials of Flipped Learning and a model of how it can be successfully applied in Drama at all levels. Continue reading 15 Minute Drama CPD: Flipped Learning
Flipped learning isn’t such a new idea but it is still an awesome idea. Flipped Learning as a concept is an easy one to understand. Essentially you are taking out the traditional learning element of the lesson and placing it into the homework via a video which you, as the teacher, previously prepared. Then, during the part of the lesson where the learning once took … Continue reading Flipped Learning in Drama
Screencast-O-Matic is an excellent way of creating Flipped Learning videos and it really couldn’t be any easier either. It is really once you load up the webpage, click START RECORDING. It’ll download the programme onto your computer. This is where the only possible negative of the website comes in as, unless you sign up, the download is only temporary and everytime you want to do … Continue reading Screencast-O-Matic
I like technology in the classroom and I’m very much in favour of BOYD – Bring Your Own Device. I think where possible, as long as the school are buying reasonably priced devices which are no better or no worse than the average device owned by the students, a mixture of BOYD and school owned devices is a happy medium to ensure that everyone in … Continue reading Mobiles in the Classroom
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