Smart Class

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Smart Class

• Group Process and Technology in Classroom

Teresa Slaughter Von Rippon Amanda
Shimkin Sara Cohen Nayun Ha
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Presentation Agenda

• Introduction
• Computer Evolution
• Methodology
• Group Platform Goals
• Process
• Planning Ideas
• Conclusion
• Group Platform
• Correlation between music, dance and
  technology.

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Computer Evolution

• Below we have assembled a picture line of the
  evolution of computers. What we grew up with and
  what are students now have in terms of technology
  is much different!

The Original Work Station
Computer with Tower
Laptop Computer
Mac Classic
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Music and Dance Technology

• Goals
• To explore the relationship between music and
  dance.
• To use technology to aid this exploration.
• To use technology to edit sound and video.
• To explore how meaning changes with sound and
  video editing.
• To create and teach a lesson based upon the
  above information.

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Process and Planning

• 1. Brainstorm as a group about different
  specialty areas and how to combine them using
  technology.
• 2. Searched and viewed Swan Lake on
  Youtube.com.
• 3. Record the audio to Swan Lake using Audacity
  music editing program.
• 4. Edited the original music to Swan Lake using
  techniques like tempo and speed change, pitch
  change, wahwah, inversion, fade in/out.
• 5. Used audacity to edit music then played edited
  versions with youtube video of Swan Lake.
• 6. Discussed how technology did or did not effect
  the meaning of Swan Lake.
• 7. Brainstorm lesson planning.
• 8. Using power point we displayed the following
• Technology Techniques
• How to use technology in our lesson plans

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The Project

• Pull up youtube video of Swan Lake

Edited Version 1
Edited Version 2
Edited Version 3
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Teaching Points

• How does altering music affect the meaning of
  the dance?
• Be on the same technological playing field as
  our students.
• After editing music is the composer still the
  same?
• Compare and contrast the meaning of Swan Lake
  before and after the music editing.
• What effects can music editing have on the
  original piece or video?
• We want students to be able to use technology in
  our subject areas.
• We as educators need to use technology to
  enhance our own teaching abilities (i.e. altering
  music to see what elements of music students can
  recognize like, tempo, dynamics, etc.).

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Conclusion

• When beginning the creative process involved in
  our group project we came to the conclusion that
  we had all become much more computer literate
  since the beginning of this course.
• We also came to the conclusion that we needed to
  be able to incorporate this knowledge into our
  classrooms in each of our individual disciplines.
  
• We worked together to connect music and dance
  through technology.
• Our group wanted to leave you with ideas of how
  to incorporate technology into actual lesson
  plans ( Teaching Points).
• Lastly through our group process we realized
  that we can indeed use technology in a lesson
  plan sense but we also need to use technology for
  its own sake of keeping up with this
  technologically savvy world!