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What a great 3rd week!

We are really getting into the swing of our dance and tech groove! We also got our equipment from the Arts & Digital Literacy Grant out of their boxes and charged for use. So excited to for future use of the digital cameras, speakers, stage lights, and a GOPRO!!! 

Classes continued to use Google classroom for journals and Quizlet for vocabulary. Dance and Media students watched a super inspiring TED Talk and then explored creative ownership of photos while learning some of our 1st photography terms. https://youtu.be/KPPxXeoIzRY


As if we didn't have enough going on, I was blessed to receive a Partners in Education (PIE) Grant and we started the first phase of our Fit & Flexible Minds & Body project. We took pictures of partners in various positions and then used the app Coach My Video to analyze the angles and measurements. We screenshoted the markups and filed the pictures in our Google Drive. Then we recorded the data on in a Google Sheet that we will add to as we repeat the process throughout the year. 


I loved using my teacher iPad for projecting my daily vocab, mirroring our processes, and recording video of our testing dances where I can easily dump right into our Classroom folder for access during student self evaluations. 



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