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In the connected era, students will be most successful after college if they have a digital presence that promotes their unique abilities and strengths. Online instructors are poised to play a powerful role in the development of our students’ digital footprint. Students aspire to be like their instructors who actively model safe and professional use of digital tools and resources. Effective online teachers understand that engaging students in the web is an important part of becoming digitally literate and, as such, learning is not tied to a textbook.
Reflections
Reflections
Where I was.
Where I was.
Digital Citizenship was my first @ONE course and opened up my eyes to what the role of the online instructor truly entailed.
I realized I needed to model ethical digital behavior in my courses, and make that modeling more transparent.
Where I am.
Where I am.
My entire department has moved away from assigning textbooks, and we're focusing on Open Educational Resources. We also purchase the rights for our students to be able to read the plays the department is producing, so they don't have to purchase them individually.
I also use a lot of different tools such as Pronto, Flipgrid, Studio, Youtube, and more to engage in different ways with my students and teach them how to leverage skills they have from social media in other digital tools.
Where I'm headed.
Where I'm headed.
As we progress in the development of online theatre classes, I want to move forward with helping students build social media presences with an eye toward professional work. This is absolutely essential for acting students as they begin to work outside of the college setting and are submitting themselves for work.
The entire theatre world is trying to figure out how to do theatre live, but safely so investigating "zoom theatre" with students is on the digital horizon.
Examples
Examples
#GettyMuseumChallenge
#GettyMuseumChallenge
This assignment engages the social media challenge of recreating artwork with items around a person's home. It embraces the culture of "social media challenges" that is prevalent on Instagram and TikTok, and explores what these challenges can tell us about performance.
Students have to learn how to engage with the free digital collection from the Getty Museum, and learn about artwork from around the world.
Then translate artwork to a 3D space and then capture it on their webcam or phone camera and upload it to class. I encouraged them to post the challenge to their social media, and I did as well.
Flipgrid to Self Tape
Flipgrid to Self Tape
With Flipgrid, students are submitting video rehearsals and performance of monologues. They have to learn how to engage the format of Flipgrid, but also about how to record themselves in low stakes professional setting. They have to consider volume, angles, recording, reading something off screen, and then the post production of editing the video before posting.
These are important skills to practice as actors have to self tape their auditions for theatre, film, and tv. Especially now in COVID, there are almost no in person auditions so all audition material must be prepared and recorded by the performer. Flipgrid helps them develop these skills before they transition to self taping.
Play Catalogue Creation
Play Catalogue Creation
One of the assignments that I've developed for my Acting classes helps develop a learning culture, encouraging the class to work together to create a Play Catalogue for use for the rest of the semester.
This assignment asks each student to read a digital copy of a play, and then summarize the play including character information and possible monologues for other students' to use. They currently use a Discussion Board to share this information with their classmates.
Students then make their performance material choices based on their classmates' summaries. This means students have to read 1 play, but have an idea if 29 other plays have potential material for them. They are leveraging the digital space to save time finding performance material.
Performance practitioners have to stay up on scripts and other materials in order to find potential audition material, or scripts to produce.
They also learn about copyright, citing sources, plagiarizing, and owning the workload of learning. This catalogue is used throughout the semester by the class, and usually ends up with a few students asking for additional plays to read because of the summaries.
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