Overview Once you’ve managed to get the right students in the place at the right time, rehearsals can begin. Very often, students are asked to practice in their own time too, so this activity describes how digital media and Web 2.0 can be used to enhance and enrich the rehearsal process from beginning to end. Full Article…
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Greasing the Skids
Overview A performance by the theatre or music group is often a highlight in the school calendar. But for those responsible for organising and co-ordinating such an event it is a huge undertaking. Cancelled rehearsals due to no-shows, finding rehearsal rooms and informing the cast of changing dates, times and locations for practices are the Full Article…
IT’S SHOWTIME!
PROJECT Curricular Areas: Rehearsing and Performing. Learning Opportunities & Skills: This unit shows how e-learning platforms can be used to make the whole process of preparing a concert or theatrical performance much easier. Students also begin to learn about the practical and every-day use that can be made of applications previously thought of as places to Full Article…
Design Your Own Font
Overview In the final activity, students will learn how fonts are deigned by creating their very own! www.fontstruct.com is an excellent tool for creating complete fonts in upper and lower case lettering. Description Tell students that they are going to design a font to be used when submitting their next project, portfolio, assignment or essay. Full Article…
Word Power
Overview Using everything they’ve learnt, students use graphic illustrations as a campaign tactic to publicise an issue that is important to them. This could be a local cause e.g. the building of a new road or houses on the site of ancient woodland or a global issue e.g. the impact of palm oil production on Full Article…
Animal Alphabet
Overview In this activity students learn how to create digital images and pictures using words. Unlike regular word cloud software, the image isn’t created by the software… they must plan and draw it themselves. Students will learn to focus on typographic composition and make appropriate changes to their work as it develops. Description Using the Full Article…
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