CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, October 18, 2011

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts from the past week

How Friendly Is Too Friendly With Professors?

CollegeCandy: I’m a big proponent of being friendly with your professors because obviously if you’re a jerk and act like you don’t care, it’s going to reflect in your grades. However, there are some students who are buddy buddy with their professors, and sometimes that can get a little weird. I’m not sure how I feel about getting meals or hanging out with my professor. Don’t get me wrong, I think there are certain instances when it’s okay to be legitimate friends like if they’re around your age or you’ve had them every semester. But even then, a professor is still a professor. So where’s the line between being friendly and being friends?
<-- Comments Here

Shakespeare gives the latest strategy in anti-bullying in schools


The Denver Post: Shakespeare is the latest strategy in combating bullying in America's schools, but the idea was not an immediate hit. "When we first told people, they said, 'What? That's weird. How do those two things go together?' " said Jane Grady, assistant director for the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado.
<-- Comments Here

SideBySide


Disney Research Pittsburgh: SideBySide is a novel interactive system that allows multiple people to play and work together using handheld projectors at anytime and anyplace. The system is immediate and simple: users simply project onto a surface and their projection becomes aware and responsive to other projections nearby. Interaction can range from projector-based games, such as boxing with projected characters, to everyday tasks such as exchanging contact information by 'dragging and dropping' onto another user's projection.
<-- Comments Here

Making Fake Drinks

Prop Agenda: A toast to drinking! Playwrights love to make their characters drink. More popular than eating on stage, drinking on stage can be found even in plays where it is not directed by the text; a bottle of booze or well-concealed flask is a common comedic bit or a way to add layers to a character. It’s not surprising; nearly every culture through the history of civilization has had some form of fermented drink.
<-- Comments Here

5 Great Questions to Ask Yourself After a Failure

Stepcase Lifehack: Let’s face it. We all fail. As we go through life we have relationships that don’t work out, jobs that just aren’t right, exams that we flunk, initiatives that don’t succeed. The more new things we try the more failures we are likely to have. In fact, the only way to avoid failure is to do nothing new. The important thing is how we deal with failure. It can be part of a downward slide in which lack of confidence reinforces feelings of inadequacy and incompetence. But experiencing failure can be a learning experience and an opportunity for a fresh start. A good way to begin this process is by asking yoruself some tough questions.
<-- Comments Here



No comments: