Juan Loeza
Final Tech Project
Ballet Folklorico Mexicano Wiki
The Project:
For my final technology project, I decided to create a wiki
that would provide information about the different segments that make up folk
dancing from Mexico. Mexican folk
dancing is very complex and is divided into many, many different segments or
regions. Each segment has its own
type of music, costume and foot work. When I started teaching this type of dancing about
four years ago, it was very difficult to find information about those kinds of
things, even on the internet was not easy to find, and very often it was incomplete information. As a dance instructor, I really needed
that information since I wanted to make sure that what I was teaching was very
accurate to what is has to be.
My goal with this project is to be able to help those people
who could be in the same position that I was, or that simply for the fun of it,
want to explore this form of art.
I also want this website/wiki to serve as a place where people can share
information, and help each other out to keep the information as accurate and
authentic as possible.
What the wiki includes, is a home page where it explains the
purpose of the site, and also a brief note about me since I pretty sure that
people would want to know the kind of person that is behind this project. Then, the subpages are for every
segment that it includes, therefore every subpage represents a particular
segment. The subpage includes the
geographical information about the specific segment and a short introduction of
what the segment is about. Then,
every subpage has two subpages of its own, one is to describe and show pictures
about the type of costume, and the other one is to describe the type of music,
name some popular songs, and show some videos of what it looks like to dance
this type of segment.
On the navigation bar I’m also providing some links to
online stores that provide costumes and accessories for this type of
dancing. These are stores that
I’ve personally done business with and therefore I consider them as
reliable. And finally, I’m also
including some links to websites where people can find and download some of the
music that it’s mentioned in the site.
TPACK Framework
Technology:
There are a couple of aspects that reflect that on my
project. Number one is the use of
the Internet as a source of information and number two the use of the Internet
as a tool to share information, whether through text, pictures or videos. The Internet these days is available
and reachable for most people, and with it’s now mobile aspect, it’s use and
value have skyrocketed.
Pedagogical
This is reflected by the fact that this is meant to be a
collaborative project, where people can bring in their knowledge to provide
information that is accurate. It
also means that people have to provide reliable sources to prove the
accurateness of the information.
This site can then become the place where collaborative research is done
between people that could be thousands of miles away.
Content
This is evident
just by the kind of information it provides and its purpose. This is simple put, the sharing of
information that might not be easy to find. This is also directed towards anyone that is willing to
learn, regardless of their background.
This is passing knowledge from generation to generation, as it’s been
done before through books, now it’s being done through the power of technology.
What’s next?
This is going to be a continuous project for probably the
rest of my life. I will keep
adding information, keep adding segments as I’m learning more about them I will
be changing information whenever I need to, and just keep updating as it needs
to be. But also, I’m hoping that
in the near future, I can incorporate as many people as possible in this
process, so that the site becomes a reliable source of information for such an important
aspect of the Mexican culture.
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