Test Takers, Map Makers, and PIE Bakers

What a busy week in NextGen dance land!

In order to work out the kinks on a small scale, I have been rolling out the iPads a few smaller classes at a time. Dance 2 got its 1st intro to the iPads for 3 activities this week. After I filmed them performing their dance test, students completed their self-evaluation through an online Google form. The following day they took notes on the jazz history Prezi on the Padlet app. Later they took their jazz history and vocab quiz through Edmodo. I loved the engagement and focus they had for all 3 activities in ways they never had on paper versions of the same task!!

Dance and Media students continued to follow our Google slide presentation and journal through Google Classroom. This week we investigated community, culture and the movement inherent in both. We used Wordsalad to generate a product full of the communities we are a part of. Then we used Popplet to mind map the ways movement happens in each of them.

Then took Padlet notes as we watched clips of dances from different cultures. Which lead into the exploration of the space around us. We used awwapp.com to do a dance pathway mapping activity where they would create maps and work to create a dance as they traveled their map. We finished the day exploring the figure-ground concept of photography.

And our Jazz 4, also accessed their dancing test on the Drive to complete their online self assessments. Then they started another part of the PIE grant by pre-assessing their tumbling skills and noting them on a Google Drive. Then our Acro consultant came for the start of this year's training.

Even my co-taught Dance 1 got a glimpse of what is to come this year as I did a test drive with select students testing on Edmodo. Feedback from the online test takers made all of the hard work so very relevant!:

"I liked how one 1 question showed at a time, because then I wasn't overwhelmed."

"It made test taking seem less stressful. More like taking a Buzzfeed poll."

"Using the iPads made test taking fun and new again"

"I felt less distracted and more engaged in what I was doing."

"I feel like I finished faster! And it eliminated the bubbling process that is easy to get wrong."

To sum up this week for me #nailedit Dance+📱=💕

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