Dance, Music, Technology and Education

How does one combine dance, music and technology in a presentation about education? This was the first question we asked ourselves when our group for this class met. There are four of us in the group, three are music ed. majors, one is a dance major and all four of us are education master's students. We have learned how a number of computer techniques and processes thus far that could aid us in combining dance, music and education. By now it seems fairly simple to cut up the sound of a piece of music or take pictures from a dance and create an animation. The trick would be finding a link between these activities and how we could incorporate our classrooms in an educational, school setting. We came up with this scenario and approach to our project. First we will use power point to display all of our findings and lessons in presentation. Our topic will be combining a dance with one piece of music, still to be determined. With the help of technology we will speed up or slow down the music and still use the same dance then vice verse we will take the pictures and animations created from the dance and speed them up or slow them down as the music remains constant. Interjected in this process will be ideas that could build up to a lesson plan. For example questions we could pose to our students as we use technology to do the fore mentioned things. Perhaps a question would be, "If we speed up the tempo, electronically, of the music is it still the same piece of music? Why or Why not?"
In a world that is driven by technology and where our students will probably know more about sound editing and animation programs we as teachers need to incorporate using this technology into our lessons. Technology in this sense can help us achieve what we deem important in our subject areas to know.
Our project strives to go through the process of teaching through technology in our classrooms.