Breath and Depth
Former ATD Nic Balkum rigging at Fenway Park
Four semesters: Design Your Learning Plan:
1) Discover: how everything works and what area you enjoy
2) Explore--try something else, or deepen your focus
A summer Internship-- work in the biz somewhere
3) Focus: Re access and focus after real world experience
4) Synthesize: Put your portfolio together for presentation and take the next step as a leader, designer, or any other of the diversity of positions in the disciplines related to to our craft.
Summer between semesters Internship Suggested for at least 6 credits. There are options on and off campus, paid and degrees of unpaid.
1) Discover: how everything works and what area you enjoy
2) Explore--try something else, or deepen your focus
A summer Internship-- work in the biz somewhere
3) Focus: Re access and focus after real world experience
4) Synthesize: Put your portfolio together for presentation and take the next step as a leader, designer, or any other of the diversity of positions in the disciplines related to to our craft.
Summer between semesters Internship Suggested for at least 6 credits. There are options on and off campus, paid and degrees of unpaid.
Theater Lab 2020-4050 Syllabus Fall 2012
Please refer to the Production Schedule for weekly events and assignments
Instructor: Jan Herder
[email protected]
Dibden Stage Fridays 1:00- 3:45 and the Midi Lab, Dibden 207 as needed. You are required to work for a total of 6 hours a week on average throughout the semester. You must maintain your portfolio, professionalizing and deepening your reflections each semester. If you are on work study or non work study you must complete your 6 hours of Theater lab before you can log hours on your time sheet.
There are 2 aspects of the syllabus—this document and the Production Schedule.
Course Objective: To deepen and extend students knowledge, practice and expertise in the primary disciplines of Technical Theater and the infrastructure of the stage in the 21st Century.
Learning Outcomes and Competencies: Students are expected to master, demonstrate and document the competencies of the Associates in Technical Theater Program. For a complete list of competencies please refer to the degree wiki: http://tha3130.pbworks.com
Grading: 25% attendance, attitude and class participation, 25% documenting your work in the ePortfolio and contributing to the Learning Community, 50% Working events (fulfilling your job positions and the average of 6 hours a week). Strike from the Departmental Productions are mandatory for all students in Technical Theater classes. If you miss more than 2 classes your grade will go down a point for each additional class you miss. Please speak with me, email or Facebook me if you are going to miss more than 2 classes.
Our Learning Community. Rapid changes in education and learning are occurring. We will be using Facebook, social media, emerging technologies and real time internet to enhance our class work and address Competency #1: 21st Century Literacy’s. Here is the link to our group: Dibden Learning Community: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/119631374802531/
Your Portfolio: All assignments will revolve around the creation and documentation of your work in your weebly.com site! This will be your repository and a place to make meaning and show direction and competency in your work.
. You may want to create a Page on Facebook as another face, or facet of your ePortfolio and aggregate the content that you wish to share as an emerging professional. Take a look at Bonnie Cleverley's Page as an example: What other professional pages can you find on Facebook?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bonnie-Cleverley/272829932737112
Someone like Vin Diesel
Collecting Artifacts, reflecting on experiences, comments and reading, and creating content.
The creation of your ePortfolio is critical to supplement your degree qualifications, verify your competencies, and show a track record of your development and experiences. You are required to attend and document your experiences, your role and the event. You must do this with at least 12 events for Fall 2012. Any event is eligible as long as you document it and follow the guidelines for collecting artifacts and reflection. If there is an event off campus, you may use it for an entry, please discuss it with me first. That is a little less than an event every week—the idea is to get you into the habit of recording and reflecting on your experiences.
Texts, Resources and Developing your Personal Learning Network
Texts: Recommended to purchase:
Backstage Handbook, An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information, available used $14.95 (as of 8/20/11) Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Backstage-Handbook-Illustrated-Technical-Information/dp/091174729X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313884505&sr=8-1
Sound: Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook , Available used $10.99, Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reinforcement-Handbook-Gary-Davis/dp/0881889008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314301867&sr=8-1 Primary On line Resources:
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theatre/Stagecraft/
Stage Series by HSTECH: http://www.hstech.org/
For more in depth information on Stage Lighting --and the resources we will use for Intro to Lighting and Scene Design in the spring semester, see Jeffery E. Salzberg’s fantastic:
http://stagelightingprimer.com/index.html?slfs-right-frame.html&2
Developing Your Personal Learning Network
Increasingly Open Educational Resources (OER) and access to experts, specialists, educators, artists, visionaries and peers are occurring globally on line. This is very important for students in a rural institution with limited faculty, a lack of diversity and resources. How do you organize this new type of ‘research?’ How do you connect to the latest ideas, information, resources, jobs, people, and places? How do extend your learning into a lifelong pursuit? As part of this class you will learn how to construct a personal learning network to connect the dots, which is the foundation for learning in the 21st Century. You will be creating accounts in http://twitter.com , http://hootsuite.com , and http://delicious.com to provide you with the digital infrastructure to build your personal learning network.
Instructor: Jan Herder
[email protected]
Dibden Stage Fridays 1:00- 3:45 and the Midi Lab, Dibden 207 as needed. You are required to work for a total of 6 hours a week on average throughout the semester. You must maintain your portfolio, professionalizing and deepening your reflections each semester. If you are on work study or non work study you must complete your 6 hours of Theater lab before you can log hours on your time sheet.
There are 2 aspects of the syllabus—this document and the Production Schedule.
Course Objective: To deepen and extend students knowledge, practice and expertise in the primary disciplines of Technical Theater and the infrastructure of the stage in the 21st Century.
Learning Outcomes and Competencies: Students are expected to master, demonstrate and document the competencies of the Associates in Technical Theater Program. For a complete list of competencies please refer to the degree wiki: http://tha3130.pbworks.com
Grading: 25% attendance, attitude and class participation, 25% documenting your work in the ePortfolio and contributing to the Learning Community, 50% Working events (fulfilling your job positions and the average of 6 hours a week). Strike from the Departmental Productions are mandatory for all students in Technical Theater classes. If you miss more than 2 classes your grade will go down a point for each additional class you miss. Please speak with me, email or Facebook me if you are going to miss more than 2 classes.
Our Learning Community. Rapid changes in education and learning are occurring. We will be using Facebook, social media, emerging technologies and real time internet to enhance our class work and address Competency #1: 21st Century Literacy’s. Here is the link to our group: Dibden Learning Community: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/119631374802531/
Your Portfolio: All assignments will revolve around the creation and documentation of your work in your weebly.com site! This will be your repository and a place to make meaning and show direction and competency in your work.
. You may want to create a Page on Facebook as another face, or facet of your ePortfolio and aggregate the content that you wish to share as an emerging professional. Take a look at Bonnie Cleverley's Page as an example: What other professional pages can you find on Facebook?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bonnie-Cleverley/272829932737112
Someone like Vin Diesel
Collecting Artifacts, reflecting on experiences, comments and reading, and creating content.
The creation of your ePortfolio is critical to supplement your degree qualifications, verify your competencies, and show a track record of your development and experiences. You are required to attend and document your experiences, your role and the event. You must do this with at least 12 events for Fall 2012. Any event is eligible as long as you document it and follow the guidelines for collecting artifacts and reflection. If there is an event off campus, you may use it for an entry, please discuss it with me first. That is a little less than an event every week—the idea is to get you into the habit of recording and reflecting on your experiences.
Texts, Resources and Developing your Personal Learning Network
Texts: Recommended to purchase:
Backstage Handbook, An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information, available used $14.95 (as of 8/20/11) Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Backstage-Handbook-Illustrated-Technical-Information/dp/091174729X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313884505&sr=8-1
Sound: Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook , Available used $10.99, Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reinforcement-Handbook-Gary-Davis/dp/0881889008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314301867&sr=8-1 Primary On line Resources:
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theatre/Stagecraft/
Stage Series by HSTECH: http://www.hstech.org/
For more in depth information on Stage Lighting --and the resources we will use for Intro to Lighting and Scene Design in the spring semester, see Jeffery E. Salzberg’s fantastic:
http://stagelightingprimer.com/index.html?slfs-right-frame.html&2
Developing Your Personal Learning Network
Increasingly Open Educational Resources (OER) and access to experts, specialists, educators, artists, visionaries and peers are occurring globally on line. This is very important for students in a rural institution with limited faculty, a lack of diversity and resources. How do you organize this new type of ‘research?’ How do you connect to the latest ideas, information, resources, jobs, people, and places? How do extend your learning into a lifelong pursuit? As part of this class you will learn how to construct a personal learning network to connect the dots, which is the foundation for learning in the 21st Century. You will be creating accounts in http://twitter.com , http://hootsuite.com , and http://delicious.com to provide you with the digital infrastructure to build your personal learning network.