Creating+Dance

=Creating Dance =

= = My presentation was based on 3rd Grade Fine arts. Standard 3(creating): The student will improvise, create, perform, and respond to movement solutions in the art form of dance. Objective 2: Create and discuss movement solutions derived from movement exploration.

My project is about pattern recognition and dance. Since it is in the fine arts category and it deals with patterns, I figured it can also be linked to math patterns. Since most third graders should be very good at recognizing patterns, there is just a breif review of pattern recognition. Then the student gets to learn a line dance step by step. I chose this Subject because I always have had a passion for the fine arts, especially dance. I remember in elementary school we learned a western line dance and I thought it was the best thing ever.

I will use this presentation more as a one on one type of thing. The students will have a review of Pattern recognition and they will learn a line dance step by step. They will be able to recognize that dance has patterns, and if they play the available game, they will learn that music also has patterns. They will have their own opportunity to create new patterns through dance and music.

The assignment given in this presentation is to teach a friend or family member the line dance that they learned in the presentation, record them doing it and bring it to class. There is an additional assignment which involves the student playing games and watching a short dance about patterns. I think this assignment is very reasonable, especially since they need to use technology in this assignment. As I was making the presentation and recording my family members do the dance, everyone involved had a lot of fun. Since the indviduals who helped me are of all ages and they all enjoyed it, I would assume that the students would have fun doing this as well.

The benefits of using an interactive powerpoint are: = =
 * The student is able to move at their own pace.
 * The student can stop and come back to it later.
 * The student needs to understand before they can move on.

From this assignment, I learned how to hyperlink and to make interactive powerpoints which I think is something that I will definitly be using through out my teaching career. Also, adding video and music will be beneficial in teaching. 

What worked well: Uploading my home videos and adding the hyperlinks worked very well, very simple and an easy concept to grasp.

What ﻿ didn't work well: I had Troubles making the sound stay linked to my powerpoint.

Final Thoughts: I enjoyed learning all of the new things about powerpoint and how it all works. This is definitly a program I will be using as a teacher.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">There was another Video from Youtube, which would not upload onto my wikispace.