Drama Education with Digital Technology

Michael Anderson works in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney where he teaches and researches in Drama and Teaching and Learning. John Carroll is Associate Professor in Communication Research at Charles Shurt University, Australia. His research area is mediated performance and Drama and role, focusing on the relationship between production and performance. David Cameron lectures in journalism and social media at Charles Sturt University.

• 1. Changing teaching and learning: how drama pedagogy and technology can change our schools; 2. Theatre in education; 3. Create, connect, consume: exploring the links between process drama and educational videogames; 4. Stituated role and mediated communities of practice: a commission model of drama; 5. Drama, games, phones and social learning; 6. Drama and game design; 7. Theatre for young people: Rose Myers and Angela Betzien in conversations with Noel Jordan; 8. Digital theatre and online narrative; 9. Process drama and digital storytelling; 10. Second life/simulation: online sites for generative play; 11. Encouraging reflection on practice through blogging; 12. Interactive drama using cyberspaces; 13. Digital video: aesthetic control of film production and distribution; 14. Podcasting and museums: informal learning, drama and technology; 15. 'Dude, where's my flying car?' Speculation on drama, teaching and digital technologies.

This volume presents a rich and stimulating set of accounts of the convergence of drama education and new media.