Drama happens in bodies and voices, so technology has a smaller part here than in most subjects, and that is as it should be. Where it helps, it tends to do one of two jobs.
The first is letting students see or hear their own work. Year 10 film their stage-combat slaps from two angles and watch them back in slow motion. Pairs record monologues for peer notes on delivery on a private Padlet.
The second is weighing up interpretations as a class. Why does Mrs Johnstone give up a twin? Year 10 vote, stage the top two readings, and vote again. Year 11 comment on one script page to direct the yellow bird scene in The Crucible.
Making is here too: a three-minute radio drama in the style of The War of the Worlds, and Year 12 sound designers live-coding a Sonic Pi underscore that follows each run-through.
Creative Amplify
Groups script and record a three-minute radio drama told through invented news bulletins, layering voices, sound effects and silence in one shared Soundtrap project.
Creative Transform
Students taking the sound design role write a Sonic Pi program that generates the underscore for their group's devised piece as it runs, and change it live in response to the actors in each run.
Interactive Amplify
Pairs film each other's 30-second monologues, post them to a class-only Padlet, give peer notes on one delivery skill, and re-record after a targeted warm-up.
Students vote on Mrs Johnstone's motivation, watch the two most popular readings performed, then vote again.
Students comment on one page of Act 3 of The Crucible with the choices they would make as director, and the teacher stages the most contested moment.
Interactive Replace
Students annotate the Inspector's 'fire and blood and anguish' speech in their own Google Doc with the pace, pause, volume, gesture and movement they would use as the actor.
Passive Amplify
The teacher takes the class round the ancient theatre at Epidaurus through 360-degree views in Google Earth, from the circular orchestra to the top rows of seats, before groups stage a chorus in the studio.
Passive Replace
Before their own puppetry work, Grade 7 watch Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler's TED talk, where the puppeteers show how breath and small movements make the War Horse puppet seem alive.
Passive Transform
The teacher films pairs performing a rehearsed non-contact slap in slow motion from the audience's position and from the side, then replays the clips so the class sees how the illusion works.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.