TPACK

TPK, or technical pedagogical knowledge, is knowing how to use technology in general teaching, not a specific subject. An example for dance would be knowing to how to cut and organize music to use in class.

TPACK, or technical pedagogical and content knowledge, is knowing how to use technology for specific methods or strategies. The students here not only use the technology to learn a specific topic, to help them with general development. An example for this in a dance setting would be to have the students collaborate to create a movement combination concentrating on a specific idea (such as head-tail initiation), record it, and present it through video in which other students could make comments.

Video Communication

After much frustration (as you can kind of tell) Chelsea and I finally got Google Video Chat to work!










I was also pretty excited when I got this beauty to work as well:


I preferred both the video messaging on Tokbox and Google Video Chat for different reasons. For a classroom, Google Video would be very convenient in having a discussion with students or parents. Video chat might also work in a dance setting if students had questions on movement and things. Tokbox would probably work better for students or parents that could ask questions or leave a comment.