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Sample Size: 3 people, aged 25-45, 2 males, one female
Work Section:
100% Symetrical, 100% non-animated, 100% stiff, 66.7% monotone, 100% consistent volume, 66.7% less emphasis, 66.7% terse
Play Section:
100% symetrical, 100% animated, 100% stiff posture, 100% varied tone, 100%varied volume, 100% more emphasis, 100% complex discourse
I thought that this experiment was fun and interesting. As we can see from my video, each participant clearly changed their posture once the sock puppet was introduced. As the results show, each participant became more animated, varied in their tone and volume of their speech, and more emphasizing and complex in their discourse. Suddenly the participants felt comfortable making a joke while they were wearing the sock puppet. Also, I noticed that each participant, at some point while wearing the sock puppet, sat forward towards the camera. I have no idea why they did this, but perhaps it had something to do with the performance aspect of wearing a puppet.
While this is my first experiment using sock puppets, this is not my first experience using them in an educational capacity. I taught English in South America and I had each student make their own sock puppet which spoke only English. I had the students use these puppets to speak to each other in English. It was their favorite activity of the entire year that I taught there. The students would use their sock puppets at recess! Their parents came and told me that their kids were constantly playing with these puppets, and that these puppets only spoke English at home too. Honestly, it really worked. I think the aspect of play that it adds frees people to take risks that they wouldn't otherwise want to take. All of my subjects in this experiment changed their answers to the questions once they were wearing the sock puppet; their answers became "let's pretend", imaginative, creative, and funny. I suppose that ideally students in classrooms would always embody those characteristics in their learning.
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