Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Final Project Journal Entry 2

In addition to my responsibilities listed in yesterday’s post for my group’s final project, I am also now the html author for the main page of our site, which I like because I like to make sure everything is in sync and organized.

Our project is progressing well. We are each working on building a site for each of our fables, and then collaboratively we are building a homepage. Last night we also set to work on making 3 videos, which will serve as demonstrations on each fable page. We have also been doing lots of research on how dance, music, and acting can influence literacy.

So today we just have to work on final tweaks, and outlining how our in-class presentation is going to work.

I’ve really enjoyed working with this topic of performing arts and literacy. It’s something we talk about a lot in my dance ed classes. Dance and Creative Movement can explore literature and poetry, and it can also serve as great inspiration for the creation of dance. We do not however, usually discuss how technology can be brought into this conversation. I am discovering that technology can spread the work you are doing in your classroom out to the public- for teachers across the world to see and maybe use in their classrooms. Technology can also facilitate relationships via the internet between classrooms. A class here in NYC could video-conference with a class in Asia on a dance project about “Where The Wild Things Are,” (just an example). Needless to say this project has opened my eyes to those possibilities….

-SG

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