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{music} The students
come to me, email me, all kinds of questions
all the time. So, I know they're thinking. And that's the most important thing.
This project really makes them think. My name is Renee Borromeo.
I'm an Instructor of Physical Therapy at Penn State
Mont Alto. So, the students take the knowledge that they've
gained in anatomy and through the beginnings of the kinesiology course.
Things like knowing where muscles are located and how muscles work. They
take that knowledge and apply it to human movement. At the end of the project,
they're required to turn into me both
the video and a paper.
We take a very small motion, we have
one student in a group of maybe three or four who will actually
be the subject, usually, for the motion. We'll do the activity, say
throwing a baseball. Will stand in front of the camera. The other students
will be behind the camera. The student will go through the action of throwing the baseball
and then the student is filmed
from several different angles. So, the students then take this video
clip that they've made and, as a group, analyze the
activity. They use their knowledge of anatomy and physiology
to decide which muscles are moving.
Which muscles are active in which ways during which parts of the
activity. So, having the video is really, really essential to understanding exactly
what kind of motion that they are seeing. In fact, it's
happened often that I'll read the paper and think, well, that's not right.
That can't be. Then look at the video and realize that the person, who they were analyzing,
actually did do a movement in maybe a quirky way that was something I
hadn't envisioned in my own mind. So, seeing the video really helps
to put it together for me as well in grading it.
The students generally like the project. They're usually
surprised at the end how much work went into, but they will all say,
that they learned a lot from doing it. Other things I assign
them to do, in all honesty, make them memorize. They make them memorize muscles.
I make them memorize bones and tiny little spots on bones
where muscles are attached. But this really encourages
them and almost forces them to use that knowledge
in order to apply it to something.
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