You may be interested in these sites emerging from the Drama and New Media SIG at the IDEA WORLD CONGRESS in Hong Kong http://dramaNmedia.wikispaces.com http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3481320636 Also C&T are building an archive of Drama related podcasts http://www.candt.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemid=31 We also managed to make a bit of a splash during the Keynote session today. When was the last […]
Dan Zellner in collaboration with the NMC is offering his drama workshops for a special Aussie and NZ friendly time zone. A few of us have already signed on to participate and there are probably a few places left. The commitment is 5 weeks on Sunday 8PM SLT – that’s 9AM Monday in Perth (Singapore […]
This sort of work really shifts us into the realm of Interdisciplinary Practice – I believe this sort of investigation should be a part of Drama Education – although I’m still finding a lot of other Drama teachers who don’t seem to want their paradigm to develop. Interdisciplinarity, Theatricality and Performance Studies are yet to […]
OK, so I’ve spent time working out how all this Second Life stuff works. Just as I am about to launch into constructing the space that will accommodate my process drama Second Life upgrade their browser and I find my computer will not longer function with the SL software. I’ve made do until now with […]
I was quite surprised today when I was reading through the materials arriving from the Second Life Educators mailing list. Someone referred to Boal’s concept of “metaxis”… my stunned response follows… Yay!! See I told everyone drama was useful for something in the realm of technology.This phenomenon is discussed briefly in a recently released book. […]
I’ve recently been playing with an EmoterHUD – a device that allows me to animate the facial expressions of my avatar in Second Life – I believe this offers some very interesting possibilities for expression in role-playing scenarios as well as in regular SL interactions – the interface is still quite clunky to develop much […]
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 […]
  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 […]
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) […]