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Changing the Channel - From Face to Face to Digital Space: Framing the Foundations of Video Based Presentation & Meeting Channels
Get PDFEffective presentation skills never go out of style, however, the channel by which we deliver presentations has been rapidly changing over the past two decades. Technological developments have made it easier to bring audiences together in virtual spaces and as a result, more and more presentations are taking place every day through digital channels. The cornerstones of effective and engaging presentations have remained the same for hundreds of years, but digital presentation and meeting channels bring both new challenges and opportunities that need to be examined in order to ensure we as a field are applying and teaching the best practices for this new channel. While some face-to-face presentation skills and best practices carry over to the digital world, there are new and unique practices that must be considered when attempting to engage digital audiences. The primary aim of this manuscript is to provide presenters and facilitators an overview of the unique opportunities and challenges that digital channels present along with details on the best practices and approaches for engaging digital audiences in an effective manner. An examination of future challenges for training and coaching presenters within these digital channels is also discussed
Social Media, Aggregators, Analytics, and the Writing Center
Get PDFIn an attempt to increase writing center attendance and overall retention, a social media strategywas put into place in the Spring 2019 semester at Edward Waters College, an HBCU inJacksonville, FL, and continued through the summer. In this case study, the choice of socialmedia platforms is considered, including what platforms the Writing Center’s target audienceuses. The use of aggregators for scheduling is also assessed, with an eye to efficacy and economyof time and funding. Finally, the use of social media analytics is discussed to determine the beststrategy for analyzing interactions with followers and other users
The Creation of Traditional African Dance/Music Integrated Scores
Get PDFAfrican dances are among the oldest dance traditions in existence; their structure is uniquely different because the movement therein is inseparable from the music that governs the movements. The music is associated with the spoken language of the people, which makes it virtually impossible for outsiders to comprehend the music of different African countries. In Africa there is no dance that is not accompanied by some form of music from the voice to orchestras of different percussive instruments. For centuries the dance/music of African people has been passed between generations by a mouth to ear process. Any society that is entirely dependent upon oral communication to transfer their culture between generations is doomed to failure because of the breakdown of the human memory and outside interpretation. The best way to rectify this dilemma is to provide written documentation for these dances. Because the dances are inseparable from the music, I have dedicated my life to creating written documentation for the music that parallels Labanotation, a system for writing movement. This system is called Greenotation, after me its creator. In this manner not only can the music and dances throughout Africa can be preserved, and given perpetuity, but also comprehensive thesis and dissertation can now be written whereas previously, this could not be accomplished because African dance/music lacked a written format
How Can We Know the Dance from the Dance?: Exploring the Complexity of Staging Dance Legacy Works
Get PDFStaging works from our rich concert dance heritage relies on determining what the “real” dance is, particularly when the work is no longer currently performed. Because choreographers frequently alter their choreography, creating multiple versions of a dance, identification of a definitive version can be a complex process. Adding to the complexity, there is the involvement of the stager, performers, and the audience who are each active or passive participants in the ultimate performance of a work. Through conversations with prominent stagers, scholarly discourse, and personal experience, the author investigates some of the key concerns and questions regarding staging dance legacy works in concert dance
Voices of Notators: Approaches to Writing a Score- -Special Issue
Get PDFIn this special issue of Voices of Notators: Approaches to Writing a Score, eight authors share their unique process of creating and implementing their approach to notating movement, and they describe how that process transforms them as researchers, analysts, dancers, choreographers, communicators, and teachers. These researchers discuss the need to capture, to form, to generate, and to communicate ideas using a written form of dance notation so that some past, present, or future experience can be better understood, directed, informed, and shared. They are organized roughly into themes motivated by relationships between them and their methodological similarities and differences. The papers are arranged to reveal four themes present among these authors. The themes are: (1) revisiting notation history to rethink the future understanding of notation, (2) focusing and developing notation so it can function to capture traditions of the movement form being embodied to support accurate learning, (3) working with technology to capture, document, analyze, and research movement; and (4) practitioner’s perspectives papers that examine approaches to notating scores to focus the tool of notation to maximize the teaching and learning experiences of the participants and, hence, those who use the resultant scores
City of Wind, City of Fire: Education and Activism in Chicago 1966-1975
Get PDFThis paper emphasizes the pedagogical contributions that drove the political awareness and action of Black and Brown youth in Chicago from 1966-1975. The critical education of the Communiversity on the Southside and the Chicago Young Lords Organization (ChYLO) on the Northside addressed deficiencies in educational institutions and aided urban youth in combating the post-industrial, socio-political, and economic challenges of Chicago communities. Through a critical analysis of interview and archival data of ChYLO and Communiversity, we highlight their significant contributions to the field of education. In this article, we frame these formations as the work of critical pedagogy. Our analysis of these youth/student organizations uncovers frameworks that contribute to the work of educators and youth via: 1) examination of educational topics rooted in community concerns, 2) the study of texts that promote critical understandings and analysis of unjust structures and systems at local, national and global levels, and 3) pedagogical practices that account and adjust for the living and learning conditions of poor Black and Brown communities
Connecting physical and virtual spaces in a HyFlex pedagogic model with a focus on teacher interaction
Get PDFThis article highlights interaction within physical and virtual spaces in a higher education HyFlex learning environment with live streamed lectures and seminars. What kinds of learning spaces do we shape when we connect physical and virtual spaces? How do we interact in these spaces, and how do they affect our interaction? The perspective of ‘designs for learning’ theoretically frames the study. The result show that several different spaces are shaped; physical space, representational space, interactional space, and a ‘liminal space’. The result also implies that a HyFlex model requires an increased didactic awareness of designing for learning
