1. Multimedia Inside & Outside
the Classroom
Teaching with Technology Conference 2013:
Learning in Motion
Tech Ideas from Paula Cizmar’s THTR 365 class

2. Media use rampant--but only for socializing
CollaborationCollaboration limited/revisions
compromised
Paper inflicting a deadly stranglehold on the
writing class
Stagnation in thinking about the art form
Crisis of resources
The Situation:
which, of course, includes the death of metaphor and the threat of global climate change...

3. How
can
100
percent
of
students
collaborate
when
we
only
have
one copy
of
the
script?

4. Does
each
revision
require
still
more
paper??????

5. The Challenge
Remember that this is the 21st century
Enhance collaboration
Improve writing and rewriting skills
Save paper
Revive metaphor, create works of significance,
risk new forms
PLUS
Explore ways to continue class in case of campus shutdown

6. • 21st-century communications
including
• Projecting scripts
• Public, editable documents
• Videoconferencing
• Toys Tools
THE SOLUTION

7. projected docs
avoid
expense
waste
the “my printer broke” excuse
offer
attention
collaboration
instantaneousness
the satisfaction of going green

10. video conferencing

12. making it part of the art

13. text message plays

15. google communities

17. twitter & pop-up plays

19. multimedia + live
theatre experiments

25. What I’ve Learned
• the attempt to incorporate technology challenges me to strive
to keep rethinking how i teach and how i view the theatre
• students respond to both the environmental protection
element as well as the opportunity to imagine the future of
the art form
• the line between offering enough training/guidance in the use
of tech and allowing enough room for imagination and
innovation is often hard to distinguish
• some things work and some things don’t...

26. but we preserve a tiny bit of a tree