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2009 Virtual World Best Practice in Education Conference

29, Mar 2009

Well, I was just saying in my blog post this morning that had I a chance to redo my Dramatically Different workshop presentation from NMC I would implement some changes.  Now, thanks to a last minute cancellation at the 2009 Virtual World Best Practice in Education Conference and the fact I was following organiser chat [...]

Taking Drama conventions into new territory

28, Mar 2009

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As mentioned in other posts, I recently offered at session at the NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning (keyword tag NML2009). One of the key aspects of my presentation was to examine, practically, the different expression of conventions that are afforded by the new environment.
I have begun a series of [...]

Winding up a great event

28, Mar 2009

Yesterday morning in Perth I presented the final workshop in the New Media Consortium Symposium on New Media and Learning. The session went quite well but I did experience one small glitch and had to reload the software.. they was a delay of a minute or two… as is often the case when you’re [...]

NMC Symposium on New Media & Learning

17, Mar 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, the thirteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore the impact of new media on teaching, learning, research, and creative expression, especially in higher education.
NMC Symposium on New Media & Learning
http://www.nmc.org/node/6565
The NMC have just advised that my presentation proposal has been accepted.
Dramatically Different: Strategies [...]

Some reminders about the basics in Second Life

21, Feb 2009

Today I conducted a small tour of my research island, Godot, in Second Life.  The visitors were all people involved with, or interested in, Psychodrama.
As one of the virtual hosts for the event I would like to thank everyone who attended the session.  It was nice to have people back on the island.  Thanks once [...]

Invisible Theatre under the microscope

2, Jun 2008

An interesting article appears in the latest issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education – I have wondered for a long time about the ethical aspects of invisible theatre. Typically the standard response is not dissimilar to the Marxist “The end justifies the means” and to some extent I’m personally satisfied with that – [...]

Learning in, with and through Drama.

5, Jan 2008

Learning in, with and through Drama.

“ In the book Drama of Colour Saldaña discusses a study done by researchers Gourgey, Bosseau, and Delgado (1985) with lower socio-economic Black and Hispanic students in elementary school. After a six month improvisational drama [...]

The Drama of Lost City #1

29, Nov 2007

I’m pleased to say we launched this ship today. It’s taken a long time to organise but thanks to a few interested people we had a stab at it.
It was a very different exercise than the small drama Anya Ixchel and I undertook at the last NMC Symposium.
We had 12 people to [...]

Drama ready to go – I need you!

13, Nov 2007

Well, the Process Drama I’ve been developing is well and truly ready to go. I’ve been trying for a while to drum up a gropup of interested volunteers to participate in the project. Unlike many reserach projects that simply require delivery of a syurvey, this project is a bit more complicated.
Think of trying [...]

Godot development

12, Sep 2007

As advised recently, I took delivery of my shiny new Second Life island called Godot. My initial excitement started to give way to the pragmatics of getting Godot into a state where it can serve my research needs. Reading about island development in other forums could leave you believing you need a hefty [...]


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