Personal Learning Network

Here are my 5 links. There are actually 7 on the list, but The Exponent, and A Perfect Brightness of Hope are things i follow anyway.

Applied & Interactive Theatre Blog: http://www.tonisant.com/aitg/blog/
This sight deals specifically with applied theatre, or Theatre in Education. It is a theory that theatre can be used to teach anything. NYU has a big applied theatre program. Since it is a useful way of teaching and understanding theatre, and one that i am interested in, I tagged this blog.
Drama Teacher's Diary | Contemporary Drama: http://contemporarydramanewsletter.contemporarydrama.com/public/blog/203097
This site just looked like a lot of useful commentary on finding and choosing plays for high school production.

Drama Teaching: Free Lesson Plans and Resources for Drama Teachers: http://dramateaching.teacherlingo.com/
This website provides lesson plans. Although they are designed for 6th grade, they could be altered to high school classrooms.

Education and Training: http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/education/
This blog deals with a specific institution, but also discusses general theatrical concepts, like directing, as well as some useful insights on teaching.

The Drama Teacher: http://www.thedramateacher.com/
Again, this site discusses theatre in general, but asks some pertinent questions about teaching theatre, as well as gives useful information about theatrical forms that could be incorporated into lesson plans.

Screen Pictures

So, in class we were told how to take a screen picture. I thought that might be useful, so I wrote it down. Shift -Command -4. And here is a demonstration that I might use it in a class room. This is a frame from a video of a Theatre Mitu performance. Pulling a single frame from this video could be used to discuss specific directing choices, lighting choices, or any specific moment, outside of the full context. It allows me to focus in on a smaller section of the frame, instead of just pausing it at a certain moment.

What I want to get out of IP&T

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.