Online Video Recordings
in support of

PhD Dissertation:
"Ethnographic Videoconferencing, as Applied to
Songs/chants/dances/games of South Indian Children,
and Language Learning"

by Eric Miller
Folklore Program, University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia, USA)


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The 14 children's songs/chants/dances/games (as recorded in Vellambi, the research project's fieldwork village) are on this 10 minute, 45 second recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbRe8uUAbs


Activities and Beginning Times
1) "One Stone"__ 0:04.
2) "One Garden"__0:50.
3) "One Pot"__1:18.
4) "Sandalwood Ash"__2:42.
5) "What Kind Of"__3:48.
6) "What Use?"__4:08.
7) "Please Give!"__4:20.
8) "Monkey Jumping"__5:57.
9) "Rolling"__6:18.
10) "A Fruit"__7:10.
11) "A Bunch"__7:40.
12) "Goat and Tiger"__8:54.
13) "Frog, Frog"__10:30.
14) "Tick, Tick"__10:36.

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In the following (Realplayer) recordings of the research project's two post-fieldwork videoconferences, the image on the left side is from Chennai, and the image on the right side is from Philadelphia.

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16 Oct 2004 Chennai-Philadelphia videoconference.

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15 Oct 2005 Chennai-Philadelphia videoconference.


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Two highlights of the 2004 videoconference are:

a)  Children from the two sides of the videoconference performing One Bucket of Water (Oru kudam thanni), a singing game, collaboratively.  
Each site contributes a side of the arch.
Recording (35 sec.). 

b)  One child from each side of the videoconference engaging in a verbal exchange partly derived from Enna panni? (a question-and-answer chant).  There is coaching from adults on both sides. 
Recording (53 sec.).
 

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To contact Eric Miller,
please e-mail to
emiller(at)sas.upenn.edu
eric(at)storytellinginstitute.org

http://www.storytellinginstitute.org




Last updated September 2010.


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