The excitement of exploring the Internet can spark new interest in theatre. By encouraging students' self-direction. Students can make the choices of what and how to research online, how to use technology such as still photography and video cameras, and how to plan and create online journals. By giving special needs students more opportunities to collaborate with peers. Internet and interactive technologies can be a rich source of peer coaching and cooperation among students.
Learners take on different tasks in working towards common research or production goals.
By providing students with valuable, new creative tools, such as still and moving film, video, and sound equipment. By offering students efficient, exploratory ways to research the contributions of performers, theatre history, trends, and styles with the Internet's network of library catalogs, campus information systems, directories, databases, archives, and other interactive media technology. By enabling students to communicate with actors and theatre technicians, teachers, and students around the world in online discussion groups, list servers, bulletin boards, and email. By providing a new way for students to document and assess their learning. Students can keep computer journals, practicing basic keyboarding and computer skills.