Speaker: Diane Dupres

Diane Dupres is an award-winning playwright and educator, and Head of Drama at Logan Park High School in Dunedin. She’s taught schoolchildren around the world; UK, New Zealand, Malaysia and Seychelles and possibly a country or two I’ve missed out. She’s a bit of an innovator herself, designing performances in 2D microworlds, but has said she doesn’t like online collaboration because you can’t smell the other people. Amongst all her accomplishments her biggest achievement is probably having been able to put up with Mark as a friend for 26 years.

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Don’t Pivot, Swivel – Episode 2

Mike Collins
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(NotThePedogodzillaPodcast) Mark’s second chat with Diane on the hop skip and jump to distance learning – once again he’s helpfully included a breakdown of the episode if you’d like to hop to a specific section. Really interesting chat, and a great primer for educators finding themselves lost at sea in these strange times. Mike 0:35… Continue reading Don’t Pivot, Swivel – Episode 2

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Don’t Pivot, Swivel – Episode 1

Mike Collins
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(NotThePedogodzillaPodcast) What do you do if you’re a drama teacher at a high school, your country is in lockdown and you are now having to teach all of your students online? If you have any sense you ask your best bud who also happens to be a lecturer in Technology-Enabled Learning for advice. If you’re… Continue reading Don’t Pivot, Swivel – Episode 1