Spoon Dance In The Hippocampus
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Jutta Pauschenwein: E-Learning Spoon Dance Reflections on the Virtual Representation of the Spoon Dance Ms. Henkel has appealed to me to contribute some of my experience as an e-learning expert here. I like to do Tango, Salsa and Oriental dance and work with my body, the tact, the music, and with dance partners. I am highly involved in e-learning, which I conceive of as a broad field enabling new scenarios for learning. Thus, e-learning is a social process in which virtual interaction with others takes place. E-learning is a place for exchanging and building knowledge through typing, representing, structuring – without ever being disturbed by the physical presence of others. Virtual learning scenarios on different subjects do not place the topic in the foreground; instead the concept and the process are central. The link between the Greek spoon dance and the Internet came to me as a surprise. The first time I attempted to take a look at the content online, I couldn't do it. That is also a part of the e-learning experience: sometimes you aren't able to do something because of the technology. For this reason "access and motivation," according to the British e-learning expert Gilly Salmon***, are the most essential and primary steps in the virtual learning process. Although the spoon dance is quite a complex endeavor, the e-learning concept still works! I am curious and motivated to find out more about the spoon dance. I read the journal and glossary; I watched the videos. I find that the focus on one section of the body facilitates the learning process; if I were to see the whole body at the same time I would lose sight of many details. Watching the final lesson, I think, "Wow, now she learned the spoon dance." The entire body sways to the beat, and the hands hold the rhythm – I start to sway and imagine trying it out myself. Jutta Pauschenwein is the director of the Multimedia Education Center at JOHANNEUM College in Graz, Austria *** SALMON, G. (2002). Etivities . London: Kogan Page Limited. next >

Bettina Henkel, Secession 2004