artsnews

Hello and welcome to the News page! I will endeavour to log updates on this page so visitors can keep track of our progress on this project. -Miss Morrison

**7 February 2011**
-Ms. Breen came and worked with us in the theatre last Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We did some warm-up activities like getting our voices ready, and tried to get everyone to feel a little less shy on stage. Ms. Breen will be working with us again this Tuesday and Thursday. -I have photos to post from last week, and will get them up soon.

26 January 2011
-We are working on getting our steps 3 and 4 completed and posted. Tomorrow we'll start to work on our scripts!

**24 January 2011**
-This morning I went through the existing pages and changed the text formatting and size. I found that, because the students' netbooks are quite small, having large format text was making it difficult for them to make sense of the page (instructions were getting broken up and single steps could not be viewed entirely on the screen at one time). -Students completed steps 1 and 2 on Friday and worked very well to post their work. Unfortunately, we are having a technical issue with the Wiki: when we post a file, it overwrites whichever file was posted most recently before it. Thus one student's submission will overwrite another's. I am looking into resolving this issue before we're ready to post further steps. -Tentative due dates have been added for the remaining steps. Tania Breen will be visiting us again on 31 January, so we are working to complete the first four steps before then. We will also be working on rough drafts of our scripts so that Tania and the students can practice staging them and consider any alterations that might need to be made before we reach the final draft stage. -I've added a "How To" page to the side bar. This includes step-by-step instructions of how to submit a file to the Wiki with accompanying screen shots. This should help students to work on their student pages at any time and to troubleshoot their own submissions if they are having trouble adding files.