Astonishing the Senses

As teachers of theater, one of the greatest challenges Professors Crystal Tiala and Jennifer Stiles in the Department of Theatre face is the ability to effectively convey the interdisciplinary nuances of theatrical style and of the consciously imposed structure and form of a play text or theatrical production which communicates the mood and ideology of an era to its audience. 

With the help of Instructional Design and eTeaching Services, Professor Tiala and Stiles developed a demo for a media book that teaches the principle styles of Western theater. The demo used Flash to deliver a number of different types of media which allows for more interactivity and gives students more control of their own learning. The demo will provide the architecture and the framework for the entire project which will cover styles of Western theater from the mid-eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. This project is in the process of being further developed.

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