I’ve been pushing the Drama and IT connection for a decade now. I am using Process Drama as the basis for my work – basically it entails role playing around given pretexts – situations, issues, problems or other stimulus – but drawing upon a variety of expressive modes – including the artistic, non-verbal, and dramatic […]
SLATENIGHT reports on some interesting performance events happening in Second Life. Border Art Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment – Monday, 22 January 2007 © Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment Shakespeare Comes To Second LIfe Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment – Monday, 22 January 2007 © Slate Magazine: Second Life […]
Well, having solved some of my bandwidth issues (now I have 60Gb monthly limit!) I have been able to better use my time in Second Life and really started to establish a presence. SL is a real bandwidth slurper. Like many newbies I wandered aimlessly around the SL world seeing what I could see, and […]
I’m wondering how many other researchers have encountered Edward Tufte? This man is referred to as the “Da Vinci of Dataâ€.. his ideas on data representation are amazing. He offers this in relation to PowerPoint: In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points […]
Thanks to an entry at Jean Burgess’s creativity/machine I found my way to Museumr. I’m not sure of the potential at the moment beyond ‘vernacular’ pleasure and artistic expression. But it is vaguely subversive and as Jean comments its a bit like “sneaking into the master’s house”. I generated several images in my first few […]
  OK – finally have my little parcel of land upon which to develop the basics for part of the Interdisciplinary Practice unit I’m teaching at university this year and to accommodate some of my explorations for my research. You can find it over at Maceday 121,143, 152. It looks a bit like a […]
http://simteach.com/simteach12_06.pdf Jeremy Kemp at SimTeach has published an interesting overview “The Who, Where, When and How of Second Life as a Teaching Tool in 2006” Well worth tracking and perhaps a very useful starting point for anyone consodering venturing into Second Life.
Well, it seems I’ve attracted the attention of some folk in the USA who are also interested in online teaching/learning and, hurrah, drama! Tom, aka ArthurConan Doyle, has an entry over at the CATE Life blog. (http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/7321876) We’ve started talking about some possibilities of running a high school drama project on the Teen Grid at […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cWF438HgJAThis is a short sample of an online play presented recently in Second Life. I am currently working on a two-pronged approach to the use of Drama in Second Life. The first is my primary research interest of Process Drama (improvised drama around a theme or issue to learn about your relationship to that issue) […]
One of the legends and founding reseachers in ICT in education, Seymour Papert, is in a coma after a traffic accident in Hanoi “Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus Seymour Papert, 78, was among more than 100 international experts from 30 countries who had gathered in Hanoi this week for conference on teaching mathematics with […]