I teach Drama in a high school in Australia. My region is in full lock down, so our new term start has been delayed for at least another week. Our entire school will be operating through Canvas, with even the students whose parents are essential workers, or for those students who cannot be safely supervised at home, working at school in small groups.
It's VERY hard trying to devise Drama based activities that will particularly suit the reasonably large cohort of students who have extremely low literacy skills, so I've been trying to find ways that will allow Drama students to be able to 'work' in small groups, online.
What I'd like to be able to do is have the students in pairs and threes, in Conferencing groups, through Canvas, in a way that I'd still be able to see and hear what they're doing. Our education authority prefers us to use Microsoft Teams for online staff meetings, and has advised against Zoom completely. Is this possible? Are there any ways I could do this?
