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Sherron Burns currently teaches Drama and Art at North Battleford Comprehensive High School. She has been at NBCHS for 6 years and taught 4 years in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is interested in collective creations which empower students creatively and integrate all of the arts. She offers STF Summer Short courses, and writes for the Arts Education curriculum renewal project.

Sherron designed the mask icons and visual look of the project, and wrote the material for the Theatre History and Character units. Wendy and Sherron collaborated on the Collective Creation unit.

Wendy James is a Drama and Theatre Arts teacher who has been teaching for seven years. She directs high school and community theatre productions and has offered technical and acting workshops through the SDA's Regional Drama festival. Wendy is a co-developer of the study entitled "Beyond the Mouse and Modem", and presented it as a paper for AMTEC. When this project was created, Wendy was teaching at Carpenter High School in Meadow Lake, SK. She currently teaches at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute in Saskatoon, SK.

Wendy designed the site layout, the templates, the navigation, the main pages, and the learning objects. She also wrote the material for the Introduction to Drama and Play and Script Analysis units.

 

Technical Support:

Donna DesRoches is the Teacher-Librarian for North Battleford Comprehensive High School. She is a strong proponent of resource-based learning and has collaborated on many Grassroots projects, finding innovative ways to approach the use of technology in meaningful ways.

Donna provided Sherron with technical support and as a resource for project ideas and site evaluation.

Karen Schmidt Henderson is an online teacher and a designer of teacher resource materials for the web. She been a teacher for fifteen years, and is currently completing her Master of Arts in Education. Karen is the project head of the study entitled "Beyond the Mouse and Modem", and presented it as a paper for AMTEC, and lead teacher for the McDowell Foundation research project. Karen teaches at Carpenter High School in Meadow Lake, Sask.

Karen helped with technical problems and site development for the Drama 30 site, and is developing Online Teaching Strategies for SaskEd.

 

Site Contributors:

Cliff Burns' short stories have appeared in fourteen major anthologies and scores of publications around the world. His book Righteous Blood, was released by P/S Publishing (England) in 2002. He has also written for the radio and stage, and is currently at work on his second novel.

Cliff contributed Break: 10 the Hard Way, selections of which were produced for CBC Radio's "Gallery", and performed for Globe Theatre's (Regina) "On the Line" series and at Northern Lights Theatre (Edmonton); and Angels, a 1 act play which debuted at the Regional and Provincial SDA Festivals in 2001.

Michael Diakuw is an actor, dayhome owner, and aspiring writer from Meadow Lake, Sask. He is member of the Meadow Lake Community Theatre and of Boreal Quills.

Mike contributed the video on juggling and readings for the voice lessons.

Pamela Haig-Bartley is a Drama Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. She teaches acting classes and directs both university productions and in the professional theatre community.

Pam contributed voice videos, handouts and other vocal activities for teacher and student pages in the Introduction to Drama Unit. Thank you, Pam, for all your help.

Dr. Moira Day is an Associate Professor in the Drama Department at the University of Saskatchewan. She teaches theatre history.

Moira provided the notes for teachers on theatre history that are included in the Theatre History Unit. She also provided the guidance and advice used to develop the theatre history page.