Doug Fox posted a challenge to dance bloggers this week, and since I feel this blog is often neglected by me (because I spread myself a bit too thin on the Internet), I am going to accept it. He writes:
I would like to make a very simple proposal. I would like to encourage people in the dance community to link to or share at least one dance website, dance blog, dance story, video, picture, performance or other dance-related content once a day.
If you have a website or blog, I’m recommending that you link to one dance-related story that you find interesting. Links from your website or blog are very helpful because they have a direct, positive impact in terms of the search-engine rankings of the sites you link to.
The story I’d like to link to is actually one Doug linked to yesterday on the dance-tech.net blog involving children and dancing for the camera. It struck me because this was an idea that I had literally just been thinking about hours before while in the shower (where I do my best thinking). I’m headed to grad school in a matter of weeks to study ITP at the Tisch School of the Arts because I have an interest in gathering the necessary technical skills to integrate multimedia elements into dance while working in a collaborative environment. As a result, I’ve been feasting on as much technology/dance-related information as possible. Because I have also been really trying to utilize the same process in the classroom as I do with my art, it only seemed natural to wonder “why have I not attempted using technology as a greater presence in the classroom?” I use my Flip camera in almost every class to document works-in-progress, and I often post these to my Vimeo channel and/or to the Urban Arts blog. But why don’t I try to take this further and develop an innovative curriculum where my students will be able to take advantage of the technology available to them? Why not take them on this journey with me? By the end of the summer, I plan to have a strategy devised.
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Tags: dance, dance bloggers, ITP, teaching, teaching artist, technology, Tisch
