Using image resources in Theatre Studies

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Using image resources in Theatre Studies

• Mark Childs,
• Centre for Academic Practice,
• University of Warwick

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Based on three projects

• Externally-funded projects at Warwick with School
  of Theatre Studies
• ANNIE project a variety of different
  technologies to provide access to expertise
• ARCHES project making digital resources
  available to students and lecturers
• THEATRON project creating 3D models of theatres

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Purpose of session

• Brief introduction to the resources used
• Description of how we used them
• Some of the issues with using image and VR model
  resources in teaching

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Stand-Up Comedy

• Web-based activities
• Examples drawn from face-to-face class
• Studio-based work using resources
• Videoconference follow-up
• Final show

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Lest We Forget

• Web-based resources
• Web-pages
• Scans from newspapers
• Links provided by students
• Webconferenced tutorials
• Students presentations uploaded for assessment
• Discussion board for feedback on work

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Performance Spaces

• Course website
• 03 reviewing websites and commenting on reviews
• 04 answering questions in blogs and commenting
  on others blogs
• Classroom presentations using Internet-based
  resources

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Examples of blog use

• Students answer questions using resources from
  gallery
• http//blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hesterbond/entry/the_eu
  menides/
• Students look up webpages and comment on them
• http//blogs.warwick.ac.uk/lmatthews/entry/sst1_st
  uffargh_work/
• Blog examples ppt

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Romanisation of Greek culture

• Students in groups create presentation in ARCHES
• Draw on images and metadata in ARCHES
• Add own ideas from their reading
• Store in repository
• Present work to rest of class
• http//arches.luminas.co.uk/

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The ARCHES repository

• The ARCHES project draws on private collections
  of slides owned by lecturers
• It should be easy to use
• It should work through a standard web browser
• All but the minimum of metadata to be
  autogenerated because we want students to learn
  by creating learning objects.

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Places of Performance

• The software THEATRON
• The situation - second year undergraduate module
• The activity students select a theatre and
  present information to rest of class

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THEATRON

• 3D reconstructions
• Nineteen European theatres
• Earliest 1st Century B.C.E.
• Latest 20th Century C.E.
• http//www.theatron.org
• Theatre of Dionysos

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RBL in Theatre Studies

• Issues with process not content
• Information skills demands
• lecturers acting as mediators
• Lecturers acting as authorisers of knowledge
• The issue of spoonfeeding

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Prerequisite skills

• IT skills (minimal)
• Collaborative working (moderate)
• Activity-based learning (moderate)
• Information skills (most important)

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The issues

• Creating metadata for resources
• Making accessible
• Structuring activity
• Providing prerequisite skills
• Integrating activity into classroom work

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ARCHES phase 2

• Aims
• Make more accessible?
• Improve support
• Expand range of subjects supported
• Involve more institutions
• Improve workflows for creating repository

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m.childs_at_warwick.ac.uk

• http//www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/arches/