UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning Interactive Web-Cast Symposium Educating Drama/Theatre Teachers: Principles and Pedagogies
If you would like to participate in the interactive web-cast symposium on May 6 and 7, 2008, the following links will bring you directly to each aspect of the event. There is no fee for participating.
To view a web-cast of presentations on the theme of the symposium on May 6 – any time on or after 10:00 am Eastern Standard Time (On Demand) – follow this link.
To contribute a comment or question to the discussion board and to exchange ideas with the speakers, - any time on or after 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time, May 6 – follow this link.
To view a web-cast of a panel discussion of questions arising from the presentations and from the discussion board – live between 10:00 am and 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time, May 7 – follow this link.
To view this same panel discussion (On Demand) any time after 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time, May 7 – follow this link.
For those who are unable to view the symposium until after May 7, the web-casts will remain available on demand indefinitely. However, the discussion board will be closed following the symposium.
We paid a visit to our friend's parents' in the countryside. A very unusual trip for a tourist.
Look at the beautiful view from their house.
We had a nice cup of tea, and then went to their garden to see them pick fresh lemons & limes (for homemade lemon juice). Then we went to see their cattle. See how hungry the cattle are!
My friend's Dad has a big workshop. All my life I have dreamed of having a workshop like that at home (but of course for a Hong Kong dweller, that'll always be a dream!). When I saw the workshop I was totally thrilled! I asked him to teach me to do some real work there!
It feels like a dream has come true. I am contended!
Just came back from a 2-week work trip in Brisbane. Worked hard and played a little. Wonderful experience! I will share that in a few episodes, starting with the fun bits...
Friendly Dogs
In this trip, I was staying at two friends' houses. Each has a dog at home.
Didge Didge is a 3-year-old Doberman. He's very playful, always hungering for playtime. So when I chased after him in the garden he was just thrilled! I think he became very fond of me after the game, as often times he would come close to me and push his bottom against my legs as a gesture of friendship. Lovely! – Only that he often steps on my feet when he does that!
Didge often makes funny sounds (as a didgeridoo does!). Look at his big noisy yawn in the video!
Noisy as he is, Didge is not very tolerant with noise! The other day my friend asked me to sing "The Phantom of the Opera". Didge became very annoyed with the unusual sound, and looked very puzzled. When I hit the high notes, he was so shocked that he jumped off his bed! It was so funny!
Trooper Trooper is a 6-year-old Dalmatian, another playful boy. When I am lying on the couch typing on my laptop, he would come over and push his nose against my arm, signaling, "Stop typing! Come to play with me!" Then he would manipulate his tennis ball around me, tempting me to play with him. See it in the video.
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I love the final shot of the ball in his mouth. It's just hilarious!
Trooper shows his friendliness in a different way from Didge. He would rest his head on my laps, or rub his face against my legs, like what cats do!
Trooper started developing a "delinquent" behaviour while we were visiting – lying on the couch. He has never been allowed to do so, and he never did. We tried to work out whether it has anything to do with the presence of us as visitors, and my friend came up with a good one:
Trooper, seeing that the two visitors can lie on the couch, thought, "If they can lie on the couch then why can't I? These are just strangers but I have been living here all my life!"
Maybe that was what he thought! Maybe he was just taking chances, as the look on his face did make me think he knew his wrong doing - a look like this:
(And Trooper is not allowed to go into this room when there are guests! Shhhhh...)
