1. Process drama is a technique where participants collaboratively improvise and role play within a fictional setting to explore themes and issues in order to gain new perspectives. 2. Key aspects of process drama include creating a believable fictional world or "metaxis" for participants to immerse themselves in, as well as structured dramatic conventions and phases like climate setting, injecting tension, and reflection. 3. The document discusses how techniques from process drama and alternate reality games (ARGs) could be combined into something called "DramatARGy" to create highly immersive long-term fictional narratives for educational purposes that engage participants across different media.

1. Learning through the Drama of Second Life ® Kim Flintoff Edith Cowan University and Queensland University of Technology dysl2007

2. Home Process Drama A complex form of “improvisation” Creative/ structured play Participatory performance – are inside the performance An “open” work, meaning is negotiated…a ‘writerly’ (Barthes) text Always Fiction dysl2007

3. Home Process Drama Process Drama is a group engagement in a negotiated fictional space where participants role play (in realistic and creatively expressed forms) around a theme or issue primarily for the benefit of shifts in empathetic understanding and extended perspective. dysl2007

4. Home Process Drama Metaxis has been defined as "the state of belonging completely and simultaneously to two different autonomous worlds" (Boal 1995) dysl2007

5. Home Planning Process Drama The stages in planning and implementing a Process Drama vary a bit but can be broken down into a series of phases – the order of which can change depending on the nature of the drama… dysl2007

7. Example: Issues of regulation in Virtual Worlds dysl2007

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12. Home Process Drama Conventions dysl2007 Role Circle Mantle of the Expert Interview Writing in Role Conscience Alley Hotseat Forum Theatre Teacher in Role

13. Home Dramat ARG y The suggestion is that we consider adopting some of the structures and assumptions of ARG and combine them with some of the conventional wisdom of Process Drama dysl2007