Google Drive in the Drama Classroom

Episode 132: Google Drive in the Drama Classroom Joshua Hatt was a frustrated drama teacher. He put together an extensive curriculum booklet for his students only to have them lose it time and time again. Joshua had a problem which he solved using Google Drive. Listen to him explain his process and how he went from technology hater to a full on convert. Show Notes * Example of Electronic Process Journal (Google Doc) To use this file, Make a Copy and adapt to suit your needs! Episode Transcript Welcome to TFP – The Theatrefolk Podcast – the place to be for Drama teachers, Drama students, and theatre educators everywhere. I’m Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening. Welcome, welcome, welcome! Episode 132! You can find any links for this episode in the show notes at theatrefolk.com/episode132. Today, I am talking to a Drama teacher who may be just like you. Maybe you’re frustrated with your students’ organizational abilities. How many times do you have to give them the same handout over and over? Are you frustrated because you’re being told to incorporate 21st Century tools into your Drama classroom and you have no idea how to do it? Or maybe you’re being told you need to further quantify what your students are learning in the Drama classroom and you have no idea how to do that? Our guest today, Joshua Hatt, was just such a frustrated teacher and he found his solution to all of these issues using Google Drive – Google Drive in the Drama Classroom. Let’s hear how he did it. LINDSAY: All right, I am here today talking to Joshua Hat. Hello, Joshua! JOSHUA: Hi, Lindsay! LINDSAY: Please tell everybody where in the world you are. JOSHUA: I am currently in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. LINDSAY: This is actually our second podcast guest who we’ve recorded who is in Dubai. One of our Theatrefolk playwrights, Allison Williams, is also currently there. So, Dubai is representing. JOSHUA: Excellent. LINDSAY: Okay. You are teaching currently in Dubai? JOSHUA: Yes, I am. I teach grades six, seven, and eight Drama. We use the MYP curriculum through the International Baccalaureate – that’s an international curriculum. LINDSAY: First of all, how did you end up teaching Drama? Let’s start there. JOSHUA: Teaching Drama? Actually, this is my fifth year teaching period. I went to school in Ontario, Canada, and studied theatre there and then went on to my Bachelor of Education degree at Trent in Peterborough and then decided that I think teaching Drama is exactly what I want to do and so I actually accepted my first post at an international school in China – Guangzhou – where I was hired to teach English and I ended up starting to help develop a Drama program there with a colleague of mine. And then, it just kind of jumped off from there – jumped to Germany and here I am in Dubai now. LINDSAY: Awesome. I have a question about that but we’re going to back up just because I am also in Ontario. What was your high school experience like with Drama? Did you do Sears? Did it spark in high school? Where did it spark for you? JOSHUA: It absolutely sparked in high school but I’m actually from Nova Scotia. LINDSAY: Oh, okay! JOSHUA: Yeah, and I just decided that I would jump over to Ontario for fun – I figured, “Why not?” – to do my bachelor of arts there. And so, absolutely, I’ve had a passion for Drama and theatre ever since grade nine, really.