Final Project

Target Audience- Junior-level college students, taking their first Directing I course. These are students that have had experience with theatrical elements before. They have been in or been a part of several productions. They have also had experience with a class wiki and screencast sessions on Google docs’s presentation application.

Context- This is the first part in a two-part process. The second part of the process will be to direct part of an actual show. In order to do this however, consideration must be given to several issues. These issues are covered in the first part. They are: overall design concept for the show, the setting, sound/lighting and costumes. Most of this work will be done in the technical lab in the Theater Department on-line and on-line from remote areas (as students will be able to access the applications).

Learning Objectives-

Students will put together a design concept for a show.

Students will use a wiki to collaborate on their designs in order to put them together.

Students will use that design concept to develop the set, sound/lighting and costumes for a show.

Students will present their design concepts for their show to the class using the presentation application from Google docs.

Description of Lesson-Students will collaborate with group members, which I have previously assigned to create a wiki. Using their wiki, they will create four pages; each page will be dedicated to a different element. The first page will be the overall design concept. The second will be the setting design. The third page will be the sound/lighting design and the fourth will be the costume design. Each individual page will explain how the individual concept supports the overall design concept. Each individual page will also show (on that page) or have links to examples of other concept designs for that particular element.

The group will then use the Google docs presentation application to present this information to the class. The presentation should include all of the elements with visual examples incorporated.

Artifact- This is the link to a “sample” of what the students would produce. http://docs.google.com/Presentation?docid=dftjfhc5_16s57zgd5&hl=en

Justification- I chose to have students work with wikis to collaborate because they are much more efficient when it comes to group work. This way, students don’t have to physically be together to work on their projects. They can do their part and submit it to each other for editing etc. It affords them as much time as possible to work because even if they only have a few minutes, they can work on it.

I also chose to have the students use the presentation application from Google docs because they can save them and use as examples of their work; for web-folios and things of that nature. It is important that they use the technology that is effective and efficient and I feel that using this application will allow students to put their presentations together quickly. This will also help to ensure that the presentations are relatively alike in the way that they look and students will be able to focus on the content rather than what one group used that another may not have.