OMLTA Spring Conference, 2011

OMLTA Spring Conference, 2011
Jay Bailey, M.A.T.F., O.C.T., Voyageur
Voyez des voyageurs sur les routes des fourrures, de fous rires et du travail dur. C’est la joie de vivre à travers le
Canada. With simple, portable audio and video, explained. Take with you itinerant tech suggestions, ideas, songs
and an easy social dance your students will want to repeat.
iPod Touch to Video as well as Audio
Explanation and examination of setup used: iPod, portable speakers, digital projector (Pico Laser?).
YouTube (if WiFi available)
Video (if WiFi unavailable)
Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs
(1:01)
Canada’s History: Le Voyageur Errant
(1:51)
2008 David Thompson Brigade (17:46)
Expédition 2007: la route d”Étienne Brûlé (2:08)
Repeating History (Jay Bailey)
(2:45)
Making Fire (Jay Bailey)
(1:15)
2011 David Thompson Brigade invitation
(4:18)
Voyageur Songs: C’est l’aviron / V’là m’amie que j’aime, En roulant ma boule / V’là l’bon vent
Voyageur Dance Samples: Simple jig, Toque dance / Paddle dance
Voyageur Games:
Standing arm wrestle / Le bras de force debout (Standing foot-to-foot, right handsclasped, first one to
move a foot loses)
Chicken fight / La bataille de coq (Handshake grip, pick up opposite foot, first one to exit the boundary
or put other foot down loses)
Log balance / L’équilibrage sur pitoune (Standing on “log”, swinging pillows (foam bats), first one to
step completely off the “log” loses),
Leg wrestling / Les jambettes (lying opposite directions, elbow to elbow, raise closer leg, once, twice
thrice, engage, push, whoever touches heel to floor wins)
Spoons:
Common Level: find the beat (if spoons in right hand, tap above left knee), put your hand over top
(tap up and down), go double-time (in time to the beat), stop and start in patterns
Intermediate Level: Horse trot - down, down, up (repeat), beat is on the up tap (keep time with your
left hand)
Advanced Level: Horse trot - after up beat, turn left hand palm up and tap on your way back to your
thigh. Ladder - spread fingers of left hand firmly like a ladder, incline thumb slightly
away from spoons, draw tip of spoons lightly down middle of rungs to make a trill
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