Finally the students started to play our open stage, one after the other after the other. Awesome, as I had hoped. Some are more primitive, some are more sophisticated … like an open stage. Who knows, maybe being online makes people braver? Is it really an audience when ultimately you are just alone in your bedroom? Then we played a lyric game. Asked them to search their emails or surf the internet for talking heads (not the band) and grab snippets they liked. They brought this back:

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We listed it on a shared page, broke into four groups, tried to write with it. Results: two pop songs; one rap; one poem. All different treatments and a great feeling was generated between classmates. Will be unsurprised if nobody’s absent next class.