At Brigham Young a hobby center turns students' free time into creative projects (Editor)

Offers practical advice for directors and actors regarding script analysis. Contains questions which the director can use to create a thorough analysis of the script and questions to challenge the actors. Asserts that answering these questions helps actors build a detailed character analysis providing directors with hints about how gesture and…

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Offering students opportunities for creating movement sequences in gymnastics allows them to understand the essence of gymnastics, have creative experiences, and learn about themselves. The process of creating sequences is described. (MT)

Expresses reservations about the model for assessing creative activities in evaluating teachers for promotion. (PD)

As the Internet is becoming more and more of a commonplace technology in the Western world, many communication programs have begun to offer technology-related communication courses. Usually, these classes require students to create a Web site. A good Web site, however, requires more than colored text, a few graphics, and a few links. This paper…

Reviews attempts of the academic theater community to develop a system to assess creative activity as a legitimate component for promotion and tenure decisions. (MM)

Describes a technique that demystifies the creative process and teaches advertising students to understand that creativity is nothing more than taking something ordinary (a product) and looking at it from an extraordinary point of view (an ad). (SR)

Examines the idea of developing a play through a group effort. Draws on personal experiences of seeing this kind of work since the 1970s. Details techniques that have been used with various groups in a series of drama workshops over the years. (PA)

Examines motives that can serve as the framework for a creative composition course and suggests some specific creative writing procedures. (DD)

The work described and shown in this article was produced by Elementary and Special Education majors participating in an art course for college credit prior to entering the teaching profession. They combined creative concepts with the use of papier-mache. (Author/RK)

Identifies six major techniques used to evaluate the creative work of theatre faculty. Explores major problems associated with each technique. (PD)

Warns about the phenomenon of reactivity: faculty members will change behavior to accommodate evaluative criteria for promotion. Cautions that evaluative criteria must be developed that do not produce unexpected and unwanted side effects. (PD)

Points out the merits of the model that assesses creative activities as analogous to scholarship in evaluating teachers for promotion. (PD)