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Photo shoot, make-up and corsets!

8 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: fluzwup A night off from rehearsals but valuable nonetheless; the cast were called for the program photo shoot. It was a chance for us to see one another for the first time in costume, and to realise how powerful a role the element of body adornment plays in visual story-telling. Body-masking is the

Acting Notes, Asides, body-masking, Cabaret, Costume, rehearsal

The State of e-learning in Early 08

8 April, 2008
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Collaborative Learning
Posted by Kate Foy

Image from WikipediaOne of my favourite sites is The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies which contains a link to Jane Hart’s blog. Jane keeps a finger on the pulse of e-learning and she’s doing some great longitudinal research into who is using what tools and where. I’ve been signed up via her blog this

blogs, Collaborative Learning, del.icio.us, e-learning, great tools, Jane Hart, research, survey, tools, Web 2.0

Auf wiedersehen Sitzprobe

7 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

And with 10 days to go it’s sounding and feeling good! Tonight’s sitzprobe finished up the play. So we’ve been through all of the songs, interludes and dance numbers with the orchestra. It was not as daunting as I had expected; thrilling, yes! One or two intervals … picking your note from a great concatenation

Cabaret, sitzprobe