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Flipped Learning In Drama
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 place you have the opportunity to focus on activities that concrete the learning, develop and apply the learning further or test the students knowledge of the learning more..
Shining a light onto Lighting Design
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
Technology in Drama: Review of Scene Saver
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
15 Minute Drama CPD: Flipped Learning
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 in Drama
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 … Continue reading Flipped Learning in Drama
Screencast-O-Matic
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 … Continue reading Screencast-O-Matic
Mobiles in the Classroom
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 … Continue reading Mobiles in the Classroom
6 reasons to use flipped learning.
For my dissertation last year I looked at using flipped learning as a tool for my class of Year 12 Drama and Theatre Studies students. Flipped learning is a model of teaching that literally flips the normal relationship between the classroom and homework. Traditionally, the learning has been done in the classroom and a part … Continue reading 6 reasons to use flipped learning.
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