Reflection of Glynda Hull's presentation

I thoroughly enjoyed Professor Hull's presentation of Errors in Literacy.  As she discussed artistic forms of oral communication and different registers of language.  That got me thinking of how performing arts could be considered a modality of literacy and writing.  Professor Glynda Hull used examples of digital story telling to exemplify how incorporating different modalities into writing changes traditional writing.  

While she was describing this I was thinking about how physical movement or dance could be used as a modality of writing and communication.  One contribution of dance to literacy is the ecological psychotherapy and value of dance for patients.  According to Susan F. Graham, she talks about she agrees with educational writers, such as Vygotsky, that there is a pattern that develops in literacy development.  

They believed that literacy is stimulated by 

interactions of a gross physical nature with ones environment and others,

these experiences are then converted into internal or external verbal languageand finally

the concepts developed are reinforced and recorded through the more abstract mediums of reading and writing."

Read more:http://danceeducation.suite101.com/article.cfm/dances_contribution_to_literacy#ixzz0MX6hA9Xu

This really made me think that maybe I could do my final project incorporating this type of modality of literacy.