Keep Drama Alive

"Consider social media in your subject area"
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Well my subject area is DRAMA so this matter of social media lies close to my hart. Social media can be used so creatively in drama and in ways that other subject areas might not be able to use it.
Here are just a few ideas that I would love to try when I teach Drama.

1. Let the learners make videos as a form of journaling the year.
I am a fan of journaling and sometimes I feel that a open and paper or a keyboard just does not let me say what I feel so passionately about. Making videos can let the emotions and information fly out of a person in a way a pen maybe can not. It is also a evidence to reflect on and to see how much you have grown. This will also give the learners confidence in front of a camera and an invisible audience

2. Podcasts are also a great way of encouraging the camera-shy learners to journal and become more at ease with hearing there own voices. If their assignment is to put it on the internet (which it probably should be) you can teach them the importance of having a voice and letting it be heard. With that I should obviously state that teaching them to be 'internet-safe' is also very very important.

 3. Instagram can be used in drama to unlock creative outlooks on life. I would give my learners a monthly or weekly assignment to post a photo on Instagram which they consider as photographic and maybe say why.

4. All the social media types like Facebook is a fantastic medium to encourage the learners to develop their writing skills. Poems, stories or even just quotes that they have read.

Social media in a drama class in important because the drama curriculum can so easily just focus on only on the history of drama and not invite media (which ever media) in. Inviting it in will keep drama alive because it will make it interesting.