Steph! I am glad you like my rap idea... I am really passionate about making class time fun as well as educational... I plan on trying the idea on prac to see how the students react to it!
I love your zen diagram... what an amazing idea! I find that students often 'doodle' in their notebooks during class. I know I did! By giving them that time to do that and to get creative and see that they CAN actually make art would make a lot of difference to student's confidence in arts I think! I also love that it can be done to music. Brown, Macintyre and Watkins (2012) state that art is about conveying personal meaning from different media. I would like to try a different style of music each week and then contrast and compare the pictures with the students asking them to see if there is any difference in the way they doodle to classical music compared to perhaps dance, rap, or music with a persistent beat! This could create some great inquiry questions like ‘do our brains think differently to different music’ or ‘does different music make us feel different?’
Unfortunately I had to miss the arts tutorial which is sad because drawing is one of my favourite forms of art. I find it relaxing and so flexible... allowing for creativity. I saw that people did upsidown drawings to imitate already created art. I have 'borrowed' and idea from my third prac that could be used in relation to this activity, or used completely on its own. In the first few weeks of school, students were asked to show an emotion on their face, and the teacher took a picture of them. Their photo was then cut in half down the middle and the students had to re-finish the other side. Here is a picture of one I did as an example:
I think this is a worthwhile activity that can be used in a myriad of different ways. It could be used to illustrate shading or symmetry (or lack of symmetry). It could be used to explore emotions and the ways in which people express themselves. It could be a representation of how the student see's themselves, which would be great in the first few days of school! There are many others that I can't imagine off the top of my head... do you have any other ideas Steph?
I have just come from this week’s dance tutorial. I have to admit, I really didn't connect with the class or feel an enthusiasm for the ways in which dance can be used like I did with the other arts mediums we have looked at so far. But, I can definitely see the advantage of doing some dance in primary school, if not for anything else but creativity and self-expression (Deans, Meiners & Young, 2012). I think I would use dance as a secondary medium to music, to allow students to relax, create or express themselves. Below, I have posted a video that we made where as a group, we had to create a dance to a beat using moves that we had previously learned (walking, sidestep, backwards, walking like a toad, being a rabbit, crabwalk and crawling). I will let the video speak for its self:
Although I did not enjoy the dance class as much, I would love to hear if you have any ways in which you think dance can be used in other subjects that may change my opinion a little?
References
Brown, R., Macintyre, P., & Watkins, M. (2012). Learning in and through the visual arts. In In C. Sinclair, N. Jeanneret, & J. O’Toole (Eds.). Education in the arts (2nd ed.). South Melbourne, VIC: Oxford University Press
Deans, J., Meiners , J., & Young, S. (2012). Dance: Art Embodied. In C. Sinclair, N. Jeanneret, & J. O’Toole (Eds.). Education in the arts (2nd ed.). South Melbourne, VIC: Oxford University Press
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