I doubt you’ll find the phrase “grip, fix, turn” anywhere except in my recent writing and the transcript of the speech I deliverd at the 2006 Drama Australia conference in Sydney. The turn of phrase was intended to invoke the spirit of the Mac campaign a few years ago – “Rip, Mix, Burn” that seemed […]
This is just a quick notification that the IDEA2007 World Congress website is now in place and accepting registrations. IDEA 2007 – plAnting humAn ideas glObal visiOn in lOcal knOwledge 6th World Congress for International Drama/Theatre and Education Association First time in Asia The world’s educators, theatre workers, teachers, social and community workers converge to […]
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. […]
In response to some of the recent coverage of Second Life in the Australian press I posted this: I think there are some unresolved issues about what Second Life is. Interestingly, many gamers (such as Tim who commented earlier) find that SL does not match their vision of WoW… they find the controls and interface […]
Well, I’ve been back in Perth for a few weeks now after delivering my keynote at the Drama Australia “Turning the Tides” conference. I was presenting on Monday morning and was first up – there were quite a few latecomers as the conference dinner was held on the Sunday evening. My topic was This drama […]
In the face of recent developments in the Western Australian education system, political lobbyists have successfully undermined the introduction of Outcomes Based Education… joining forces with PM John Howard and the current Minister for Education, the lobbyists have found two expert consultants fully representative of the proposed modifications to the system Ollie : Now isn’t […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]