Technology in the Theatre Classroom

Episode 180: Technology in the Theatre Classroom Have you wanted to find some new ways to enhance your classroom with technology?  Have you been told you need to integrate technology in your classroom but don’t know where to start or what would even make sense to use in the drama classroom? Anna Porter was in the same boat. She started by getting an endorsement in educational technology and a whole world opened up. Listen in to find out how you too can incorporate technology into the theatre classroom. Show Notes Drama Teacher Academy Google classroom Canvas Assessment Quiz Applications Quizalize Socrative Quizizz Formative Kahoot! Classkick Nearpod Google Forms - quiz Episode Transcript Welcome to the Drama Teacher Podcast brought to you by Theatrefolk – the Drama teacher resource company. I’m Lindsay Price. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening! This is Episode 180 and you can find any links to this episode in the show notes which are at Theatrefolk.com/episode180. Today, we are talking technology in the theatre classroom. Oh, say that five times fast – “technology in the theatre classroom.” Hands up, how many of you have expectations put on you to integrate technology? Right? Right? Hands up. Hands up – lots of hands up, I’m sure. How many of you have no idea how to do that? Our guest today, Anna Porter, was in the same boat. Let’s find out what she did and how technology in the theatre classroom is totally possible and totally doable. Let’s get to it! LINDSAY: Hello, everybody! I am here with Anna Porter. Hello, Anna! ANNA: Hello, everyone! LINDSAY: Anna, tell everybody where in the world you are. ANNA: I am currently in Virginia. LINDSAY: Awesome. Very good. We’re talking today about technology in the Drama classroom. For some Drama teachers, I think that technology can be – well, I’m not going to say it’s a dirty word but it’s a weird word, isn’t it? Technology and Drama might not seem on first glance to go together. ANNA: Yeah, definitely. It’s the tool that we want to use but sometimes feels like it gets in the way. LINDSAY: Oh, I like that! How does it get in the way? ANNA: Just in the sense that we’re often told we need to be using it but we don’t necessarily know how it works in our specific context. LINDSAY: Yeah, totally. And so, the reason I’m talking with Anna is she does a lot of work for Theatrefolk at the Drama Teacher Academy. She’s done a lot of lesson plans for us. She’s going to be doing something on technology in the Drama classroom with some Google tools. We’ll talk about Google tools in a second. Now, Anna, when we were talking about something else,