This blog was created for a technology class required by the education department. The word technology has multiple meanings to someone studying theatred and education. Theatre has its own technology: lights, sounds, set design. These are the areas of technology that are important to me, because I will have to know how to run lights and sound.
As far as what most people consider technology, I have a fairly decent working knowledge. I can use the internet, most commonly used programs like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc., and can general figure out how to do most things that I need to. I am more confident on Macs than on Windows. I have a decent understanding of social networking sites, but Twitter and that stuff makes no sense to me
Frankly, I don't enjoy using technology, and rarely use it to teach. The most I do is show clips from videos as examples of what we're working on. For example, I used this clip from City Lights to show how actors can communicate without words. If this class is going to be useful to me, I want it to show how the technology we use can be productive in the classroom, not just assume I know how it can be used.
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I agree with you, Liz---I hope we can focus more on how technology can be used productively. It's a little tricky with theater arts because that's such a different subject than most of the others, but I'll try to give some ideas your way. I've put you in a group with some theater majors in the face to face class so you can hopefully talk about how to apply the technologies we learn about to theater education.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to having you this semester!