Final Project IDD

Date of Creation: 3/24/2015

Designed by: Tom Shamrell
Time: 7- 10 minutes
General Overview/Need: The module presented here will be a pre-course for a
Drama/ English class as a homework prior to the class to eleviate undue time
wasters and give the maximum time available for actual practice and guidance.

Problem analysis There are an infinite amount of benefits that can be

gleened from acting and plays within a school setting. Understanding
the parts of stories for English / Literature such as a beginning, middle,
and end. Character basics and basic emotions. Learning the objectives
of character (what a character wants), objectives of the story (what the
story is trying to say or show) and many more. These skills are difficult
to read about for comprehension and it has been repeated over and
over without understanding of the impact. For instance; Shakespeare
never wrote any play to be read, each character was given their
personal part with the cue line from the other actors. He work was
meant to be performed. Instead of having students read the play and
then asking questions about the play, there will be a great value in
having the students read parts in the play as it is performed. This elearning will assist in setting up the comprehension and big picture
thinking for acting tasks.

Why should a computer teach it: Having this type of instruction available on the
computer will introduce the students to the elements and parts of acting out a story
and prepare the students prior to the actual exercises. The e-course will lift some of
the mystery of acting and better prepare the students mentally for the parts involved
within the play production. There are further tasks that need to be addressed in class
and covering some of the basics of acting will free up more time for the learners and
the instructors.
The Target Audience: Delivering this learning to students in grades 3 rd through 8th
will help mentally prepare for needs and tasks of all the aspects of play production.

Target audience
The target audience is children in the 4th grade. Children in the 4th
grade are often learning about the arrangement and movement of
planets. Learning about the movement of the Moon will be within the
cognitive reach of these audience members as it will be in line with
other teachings. By 4th grade, the students will already be familiar

with the concepts of the Moon, Earth, orbits, and movements, as they
were introduced to these concepts in this or previous grades.
Technical: Students will have the option to either complete this module in the
classroom computers, school computer lab or at home on personal computers.
Having the module set up in Flash and HTML5 will also give the advantage of
allowing students with smart phone or smart tablet access to complete this module.
Conditions of Instruction:
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to identify, lable and put together all
pieces of the play into complete picture.

Learning objectives
1. Given basic terms: script, actors, audience, props, set, costumes,
lights, sound and director students will define the parts that may
be used within a play.
2. Given picture representations paired with the basic terms,
students will be able to match the pictures with the terms.
3. Given character archatypes of Hero/ Heroine and Villian or
Villaness.
4. Given the picture representations of the terms students will be
able to drag and drop the pictures into a complete scene that
contains all the smaller parts into a cohesive picture showing all
of the represented elements.
Assessment: The assessment for this learning project will be a responsive quiz,
with multiple choice, true/false, and fill in the blank questions, presented at the end of
the project.

Assessment instruments
1. Utilizing the pictures aond the text, students will match the
elements of a play together. There will be no score for correct
answers but the students can not move to the next portion until
all of the pictures are matched with the correct pair.
2. Students will need to place the elements of the play together in
the following manner.
1. At least one actor should be placed on stage with a costume
element such as a hat, cape, or dress, etc.
2. At least one actor must have a prop in their hand which can be
a tool, flower, script, stone, or any number of things.
3. Sound can be any number of sound effects or music
appropriate for the picture (car horn, cow moo, silly song, etc)

4. While a director can be in the audience or on stage, the

correct position for this example will have the director in the audience
5. Audience should be seated and can be anywhere that is in
visual range of the stage and the actors
6. Lights should be placed above the set (the set can be any
location, beach, castle, forest, school)

Instructional strategies
As this is an introductory pre-course, the main strategy will be from the
Cognitive Domain as the goal is to build a foundational knowledge at
this point. Once students get into reading a story or script, these
elements can be directly implemented into an activity.