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Virtual theatre-going
By Mark A. McCutcheon April 15, 2011 - 2:17pm Comments (2)
The public course website for one of the drama courses I teach, English 303, has been updated to include a link to the new Productions page here in the Landing, where in-course students (and other Landing users) can view full-length theatre productions that are freely available online.
This is one of a few ideas I've been developing to make drama, theatre, and performance studies more concrete and vivid for the digital, distance-delivery student. (It also plugs into other AU digital initiatives and imperatives, like drawing undergrads to the Landing ... muhahaha!)
It's no Such Tweet Sorrow, but it's a start.
Mark A. McCutcheon
Professor of Literary Studies & Chair of Centre for Humanities, Athabasca U
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Great idea!
Did you know that there is an AU Second Life island available for free your students and yourself to use for immersive experiences? Please contact Dr. Bob Heller <bobh@athabascau.ca>, for more info.
Here's some pictures of an in-world psychology lab research project that Dr. Trevor Gilbert from AU's centre for psychology is working on:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arcane333/SecondLifeAthabascaUniversityPsychologyLab#
Dr. Bob Heller is also working on a Freudbot project and the business school held a small convocation event on the island a few years ago - info here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AthabascaUniversity#p/u/3/9UVDvPYXUiE
http://auspace.athabascau.ca:8080/dspace/handle/2149/1488
This might be an excellent way to, as you mention "...make drama, theatre, and performance studies more concrete and vivid for the digital, distance-delivery student"
Have fun!
Thanks, Carmen. Maybe it's time to explore Second Life. (One production I didn't list on the Productions page is a Kent State U production of the Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play ... in Second Life. (I didn't list it because I think there are enough issues of media and adaptation for students to consider in the fixed-shot and televised "real life" performances, without asking students to consider or interpret the additional layers of remediated and collaborative dramaturgy that go into a Second Life performance.)