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December 2000 THIS MONTH 1. Christmas
Presents
2. More Presents 3. Information
Station 4. Irish Drama
in Education Association (ADEI) 5. Centre for
Applied Theatre Research 6. BECTa Conference
Reminder Novenber 2000 Westminster
Drama Teachers This research report presents the results of a detailed and rigorous examination of the effects and effectiveness of secondary school arts education in England and Wales. The three-year study included questionnaires to over 2000 Year 11 pupils; an interview programme with employers and employees; and in-depth interviews with pupils, arts teachers, senior school managers, as well as observation of arts lessons at five case-study schools. The aims of the study were to:
In response
to these aims, the report offers a revealing insight into the impact
of the arts on learners and describes illuminative accounts of effective
teaching and learning in the arts. The study provides a thorough
exploration of art, drama, dance, and music education in secondary
schools. It should be relevant and have practical value for teachers
and school managers, as well as for researchers, policy makers and
others interested in young people's experiences of the arts at school. Unfortunately,
connection to this site from the UK can be slow.
How to Join. October 2000 EDUCATION LINKS
A
to Z of School Leadership and Management website Just
for Teachers
September 2000 EDINBURGH FRINGE Those of you who wish you were still on holiday might like to take at look at the Edinburgh Fringe web site . ********************************************** ICT IN SCHOOLS Looking for ammunition to argue for more IT in the Drama Department? Take a look at the annual Statistical First Release (last published 27 August 1999) based upon information collected from a school level sample.It provides data on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in maintained primary, secondary and special schools in England. Data from previous years are also included. If you want to build your written argument see what English teachers are saying. Or look at my new ICT in Drama: Policy and Practice book . ********************************************** LESSON PLANS At the start of term are you looking for lesson plans? You might try the Drama in Education Lesson Plan site. Why not contribute some plans yourself? Here are some others: Classroom Connect is American but useful. The UK equivalent would be the National Grid for Learning. But also take a look at the English materials at the VTC. These will be gaining more Drama references. I am working on it! Also Siobhain Archer has written to me. She is the editor of Teachit, an online library for Secondary English teachers . Currently the library contains over 400 high quality photocopiable resources together with useful links. It's completely free - you simply need to register. EDÕs OASIS is another Lesson plan collection. ********************************************** EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE Satsoft Educational Software IS UK BASED . Here you can purchase any or all of our products FOR ONLY £1.99 EACH. You can also use their FREE Educational Resources including, software linked Worksheets, a resource designed to help your child with their homework. Looking for software for Mac or PC? Take a look at Kids Domain Software . They offer shareware, freeware and demos. Educational Software Institute Parents and teachers are always on the lookout for good software. Finding the right tool that teaches a lesson AND keeps a student's attention can be a challenge. Well, no longer. This site boasts more than 8000 software titles from over 350 publishers. ********************************************** PLAY TEXTS Looking for a Play Text this term? The Internet Theatre Bookshop offers virtually every play currently published in the English language, particularly for those of you choosing a play for performance - browse Plays by Genre, where most titles include a brief synopsis and basic casting requirements They also stock several thousand out-of-print plays and theatre-related books, any of which can be securely purchased online & despatched within 24 hours. ********************************************** MUSICALS Patrick Carswell, who is a teacher/librarian, has written to me announcing three musicals for schools. If you want to see his work take a look at his web site . ********************************************** DANCE I am looking to add some Dance links to the site and have discovered the Merce Cunningham pages. Let me know if you have any links or lesson plans for Dance. August 2000 BOOKLISTS
FactCity
is a Web answer service or ‘fact-finding engine’ You type
a question and get an answer within a fraction of a second. It works
with other search engines and portals, those showing the Power By
Fact City label, but tries to return answers, not just links to
pages that might contain the answer. Could be useful for those facts
you need for that scheme of work you have been polishing over the
summer! July 2000 UPDATING Over the summer
I will be working on updating the Drama in Education site. This
is your chance! If you have any comments or contributions to make
send them to
BOOKLISTS When people have asked me to recommend Drama books I send them to my pages. I intend to update these soon, but two interesting books that have come my way recently are both published by Hodder. They are ÔDrama and Theatre Studies at AS/A LevelÕ and ÔTheatre DirectionsÕ both by Jonothan Neelands and Warwick Dobson. Some other good books (though expensive) can be found the Education Resources GroupÕs pages in Australia . Talking about books, how about a guide to free books! Take a look at the Free On-Line Library. Or perhaps even text books at Varsity Books. THEMES & ISSUES Bullying is an issue that often features in Drama Classrooms as content for a lesson. Guardian Unlimited (which I recommend) have a useful collection. To stay up to date on Education issues I recommend you read the Guardian Education Unlimited. Drama and Therapy also gets discussed. This site offers some useful guidance. It is written by Dr. Sandra Katz and was her thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for theÊdegree of Doctor of Education Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute of Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. I should like to build an ÔIssuesÕ section on the web site so send ideas in. THEATRE GROUPS ON THE WEB Kids Week in the West End August 25 - September 1 2000 Kids Week in the West End, is a new audience initiative run by The Society of London Theatre, which allows kids to experience live theatre for free! Throughout the week many of the shows/theatres will also be running free events for kids, including a peek behind the scenes at The Lion King to snake charming at Whistle Down The Wind. The Society has also adopted the NSPCC FULL STOP Campaign for the week of Kids Week to help stop cruelty to children, and is supported by American Express. Pilot Theatre have changed their home page. The Guardian calls them one of the best touring companies. What do you think? ARC Theatre are based in Essex. They claim: ÔARC's work is widely respected for it's power to reach people - touching audiences visually, emotionally and at intellectual levels of learning. We make high quality theatre experiences, engaging the audiences whether they are in the classroom, workplace or even a football stadium -there is a unique opportunity for learning. Our theatre touches many themes from race awareness in schools to developing relationships with commercial clients. It looks at interpersonal skills and communication, and significantly enhances curriculum and training techniques. Most importantly, our work invites audiences to challenge their thinking and question their assumptions. In this way, they take responsibility for their own opinions. Whether it is the playground or the boardroom - this is a most effective and long lasting way to learn.Õ Steve the Mime GuyÕs pages are at . He covers mime and physical theatre. FINDING SCRIPTS TO PERFORM I often get asked to recommend scripts for GCSE or A Level students to perform. Rather than get stuck with scripts everybody uses why not look a little further. For example, try this American site Kidsplay with scripts aimed at 7 - 17 year olds . BECTA I have been
invited by the British
Education Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) to run
a Drama and ICT project during the second half of the Summer Term.
I would be delighted if you would contribute your experiences to
this project. To find out more go here
and navigate to the BECTA folder. You will find a document called
'Invitation' which explains the project and one called 'BECTA ICT
Proposal' which explains the aims of the project. Alternatively
email
IDEA Now for some International flavour. Another reminder about the Fourth Annual IDEA Conference to be held in Norway in 2001. You can book your place now. Canada has been awarded the right to host the IDEA 2004 conference in July, 2004 in Ottawa. Wayne Fairhead and Francine Chaine made the bid at the IDEA General Council in Washington DC on June 1. eGROUPS eGroups is very pleased to announce that we are joining the Yahoo! family of services! To learn more about the announcement, you can read the press release. June 2000 This month
I thought I might draw your attention to some projects that are
taking place. I have been invited by the British Education Communications
and Technology Agency (BECTA) to run a Drama and ICT project during
the second half of the Summer Term. I would be delighted if you
would contribute your experiences to this project. To find out more
go here and
navigate to the BECTA folder. You will find a document called Invitation
which explains the project and one called BECTA ICT Proposal
which explains the aims of the project. Alternatively email
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is calling for entries for the third BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards, held in association with ICL. There are 21 categories, including one for children. See the ACTIS site. Also take a look at the projects being run by the British Library especially Storybank. I have received several new lesson plans and have now put these on the site. Take a look at the work Andy Kempe has done on the play Stone Cold or the lesson Paul Slater has written about Devising. Danny Brooker has contributed his scheme of work on the Stephen Lawrence Case. Tilly Aguirre has prepared a lesson using Music and Drama. Also Gill Chesney-Green has contributed some notes on the new AS Level. You can find all these on the Lessons Pages. I have mentioned the Dorothy Heathcote Video Archive before, but it is well worth another look. If only I could persuade David to digitise all the videos and make them available online! Now for some International flavour. Another reminder about the Fourth Annual IDEA Conference to be held in Norway in 2001. You can book your place now here. The International Drama in Education Research Institute also hold an annual conference in July see the IDERI home page. Anyone who has not looked at the Council for Drama and Dance in Education CODE pages should do so. They run an excellent annual conference in our Autumn Term for anyone heading that way. For anyone interested in what is happening in Drama in Education in Hungry try this staring point Hungarian Drama and Theatre in Education Association (HUDEA). Finally, OnstageWORLD is an independent,Ê completely volunteer, non-commercial Internet entity owned and managed by Robert Demers whose motivation is a deep respect and admiration for those who are involved in or who have a passion for any aspect of theatre and performance. OnstageWORLD's various projects encompass a number of individual theater-related lists. May 2000 There have been some exciting finds this month. I am often asked for help with finding appropriate scripts to use for examination purposes. A new site to me is Scripts for schools. Take a look you may find something for your group. I have also commented before about how useful the Internet is for panning a school trip. To my mind this has just got even easier with this meta-site Eventselector: UK arts and entertainment list. All Drama Teachers should be aware of the next IDEA Conference which will take place in Norway. IDEA stands for the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association. They run a World Congress every three years and this takes place in alternate hemispheres. Details of the last Conference, which was in Kenya in 1998, can be found here. Why not take a look at their site and start looking for a sponsor so you can attend IDEA 2001 Bergen? This month
I have become aware of some Drama Workshops offered online Drama
in Education - workshops for schools. I am also continuing to
run my ICT workshops for London Drama. For further information on
this contact
If you find others let me know. May is seen as the run up to the exam season and so many of the traditional Revision sites have started to raise their advertising profile. Take a look at: April 2000 This April Fools day I suggest you take a look at the history of the tradition online at The Daily Revolution. In Shakespeare Birthday week why not visit the ACTIS site Shakespeare Man of the Millennium. This year due to sponsorship all activities are free. The Drama Magazine will have its own web site from the middle of this month so check this link then. Also note that National Drama now have their own web site. As we move into conference season note that the National Drama Conference take place 16 - 20 April 2000. You can find more information on the National Drama web pages. The National Association for the Teaching of Drama Conference 2000 is on 14 - 16 July 200. More information is available here. On the Drama_UK list there has been much discussion about finding the right play. If you have not yet seen it Samuel French web site is well put together and may help you decide. Talking about searching Ask Jeeves has got into trouble over copyright of the name and so has changed its name simply to Ask. For those of you who like words the Oxford English Dictionary has a very impressive web site where you can find definitions, derivations and many other interesting word facts. Unfortunately you need to pay to access the site. There may be an educational discount in the future. March 2000 This month I have decided to inject some humour into the feature. Take a look at the site How to Annoy your Drama Teacher before your students do! I have discovered a new Drama Lesson plan site called Creative Drama & Theatre for Youth which is owned by Shalynn Reynolds. Although this has an American focus there is interesting stuff here. As I am often searching for new stories I can also recommend the following story site. Absolutely Whootie: Stories to grow by is a great site that collects folk and fairy stories from around the world. If you know your stories the title will not sound unfamiliar. To return to the serious side of things … anyone that has not yet registered for the National Drama Conference in April should take a look at the site The Shape of Things to Come. February 2000 This month you will have read about the Computers for Teachers Initiative and that you can receive up to £500 to assist you with your purchase. There are some requirements though. Find out more at the CFT site. As teachers become more ICT literate they may look around for new multimedia to use with their classes. The concern will be 'how do I know what software to use?' There are two places to start looking. One is BECTA the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency. The other is TEEM Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia. January 2000 Happy New Year to all our Readers! Where else should this feature start but the Millennium Experience! Here you can find out everything you need to know to plan your visit. IDEA - The International Drama in Education Association have a new web site. If you have not seen it take a look. The site is available in English, Spanish and French and thus seeks to be widely accessible. Look out for their next conference in 2001. The Performing Arts Data Service I have mentioned before but they have recently added some new Theatre Resources including on-line Journals so it is worth revisiting. The EASEA Project is the DFEE's way of maintaining Electronic Communication with Schools. Is your school taking part? The EASEA project aims to build on the opportunities created by the National Grid for Learning. The NGfL will ensure that all schools, colleges, universities and libraries are connected to the Internet by 2002. The EASEA project has tested the potential to largely eliminate paper based administrative communication with schools and LEAs. |
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