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Process drama is a form of improvisational drama where the focus is on the process rather than the product. This form of improvisational activities has been used extensively in many domains. For example, role play has been used in health therapy as well as for training health personnel. Creative drama is a form of process drama that focuses on the use of story dramatisation techniques; it has been extensively used to promote language and literature skills as well as creative and critical thinking. In these domains, process drama exhibits itself in physical space. Recently, there have been many advances in technology that allows process drama to be exhibited in virtual space. In this article, we look at the form and structure of process drama. We specifically discuss process drama, especially creative drama. We outline several key factors of process drama that affect its effectiveness as a learning vehicle, including involvement and reflection. Through this lens, we survey several cases of virtual process drama both as a single person experience as well as a multi-user internet-based virtual experience.

Ultra-low field (ULF) point-of-care MRI systems allow image acquisition without interrupting medical provision, with neonatal clinical care being an important potential application. The ability to measure neonatal brain tissue T1 is a key enabling technology for subsequent structural image contrast optimisation, as well as being a potential biomarker for brain development. Here we describe an optimised strategy for neonatal T1 mapping at ULF. Methods:Examinations were performed on a 64mT portable MRI system. A phantom validation experiment was performed, and total of thirty-three in-vivo exams were acquired from twentyeight neonates with postmenstrual age ranging 31 +4 to 49 +0 weeks. Multiple inversion-recovery turbo spin echo sequences were acquired with differing inversion and repetition times. An analysis pipeline incorporating inter-sequence motion correction generated proton density and T1 maps. Regions of interest were placed in the cerebral deep grey matter, frontal white matter and cerebellum. Weighted linear regression was used to predict T1 as a function of postmenstrual age. Results:Reduction of T1 with postmenstrual age is observed in all measured brain tissue; the change in T1 per week and 95% confidence intervals is given by dT1=-21ms/week [-25, -16] (cerebellum), dT1=-14ms/week [-18, -10] (deep grey matter), and dT1=-35ms/week [-45, -25] (white matter). Conclusion:Neonatal T1 values at ULF are shorter than those previously described at standard clinical field strengths, but longer than those of adults at ULF. T1 reduces with postmenstrual age and is thus a candidate biomarker for perinatal brain development.

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