Reflective thoughts and discussion from your team project meeting so far.

It's always hard to have groups when the title of "arts" is so wide, and a different person in each arts represents part of the group. Twice now, I have been asked to be in a group and to come up with a project with no parameters. I don't particularly like this, and I don't like working in groups either. Granted, as a teacher you need to know what is going on with different teachers, but for the most part, teaching has parameters in the planning process and is often done individually. This being said, I don't like working in groups, and this time was no less difficult. In fact, given the small spaces and lack of computers, it made planning even harder. I think the idea might be good- it's just not really that feasible to have groups in an arts technology class. However, I think that our group came together relatively well and we have worked to create what I think is going to be an interesting presentation. Allowing for individual creation with a connecting theme and an overall emphasis, our presentation allows each person to show what they have learned without a dependancy on another...which is a lot like what I have noticed in the school system.

Your opinion about Literacy Education issue in your discipline, and how technology resources can help in Literacy Education, your discipline, or both.

I have never had a lot of experience with drama beyond the performance, and prior to coming to NYU to get my Masters, I had thought that all the literacy drama consisted of was in the reading of plays and books on theatre arts. However, I am much more aware now of not only how the English academic courses fit in to the drama class, but also how drama can incorporate books and stories into its curriculum. Since taking a course in Storytelling, I am much more aware of how much literacy is a part of the bigger curriculum.
Also, in taking this class, I learned a lot through my online search for literacy based drama. I'm not sure how I would use this in my class, as I prefer more performance based drama classes, but I loved that the resources were so easily available. Also, it was really great to find all the different books that can be used in story telling as well as other teachers literacy based drama lessons. All of these resources are so important, and it's great that technology offers easy access to these sites.