Jessica+Clites+Viddler+Lesson+Plan


 * __Lesson plan to integrate the use of viddler into the studio__**

__Objective__: To teach students to view movement with a more dynamic and analytical eye. To help them learn to analyze movement styles and articulately describe the movement qualities they are seeing.

__Time__: This unit will last approximately five class periods

__Lesson Outline__: __Part one__- This portion of the lesson will take place during the first class period. Students will focus on the elements of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) by breaking down the sequences we have already been working on in class. They will then work on describing them in LMA language. Split into two groups so that one group is always performing the movement and the other group is observing. This way they experience the different elements of LMA through movement as well as visual stimuli. __Assignment__- Pick one phrase of movement from the sequences that we have been working on in class and list the three most prominent LMA terms that are displayed in this phrase.

__Part two__- During the second class period students will use the list of three LMA terms to create a twenty second movement phrase. This will help students to not only recognize LMA principles in dance but also apply them in the creative process.

__Part three__- The third class period will be a work shop day where students will have freedom to either work together or alone to further develop their movement.

__Part four__- During the third class period I will put students in groups of two so that they can receive personal peer feedback. During the last half hour of the class I will introduce viddler to them. I will explain its purpose and how we will be using it in this LMA project so that students can become comfortable using it as their regular method of receiving feedback from me. I go to [|http://www.viddler.com/dashboard/]and will show them how to create a viddler account, upload their own video and leave comments on other people’s videos. __Assignment__- Students will go home and create a viddler account. They will also gather together things they will need to film their LMA movement phrases in class the next day.

__Part five__- During the fifth class period students will have the first twenty minutes of class to practice their movement phrases and make sure that they are clean and that they feel comfortable with them. Students will stay with the partners that they worked with the class before and will film each other’s phrases ( there will be no music and since students are in pairs there will be enough room for half the class to be filmed at a time).

__Final assignment__: __Part A__: students will upload their videos onto their viddler account. They will then find their partner’s video and using LMA terms they will leave comments depicting the principles that they are observing. __Part B__: Students will upload their video onto viddler again but they will put my name in the title. I will then use these videos to grade their overall dancing. I will leave comments throughout their video that will provide personal feedback.

__Conclusion__: I will explain that this is the end of this particular lesson, but that viddler will now be the new form of feedback between me and the students. It will be used from this point on in grading student’s dancing.

[|Here] is an example of a video that they would upload and the types of comments that they would leave for eachother