Well next week the students of the Cedar Ridge Dance Dept, along with Westwood, Ridgeview, CD Fulkes, Chisholm Trail, Grishman, Hernandez dance students, will be performing in weekend #2 of the annual district dance show "Intersection."
The performances take place this coming Saturday, October 24th at 10am, 1pm, and 4pm at the RRISD PAC.
Dancers from Dance 1-4, Ballet 1-4, Jazz 1-4, and Ballet Folklorico will be split between the 3 shows, with projects projections in the lobby from the new Dance & Media Communications course. All of our students have worked tremendously hard and would love to see RRISD come out to support them. The shows are FREE, with a small donation of your choice appreciated.
What has that meant for NextGen Dance? I bit of quietude on our devices. With dress rehearsal only 4 days away, we have had to focus more on stage readiness. Piloting NextGen in performing arts classrooms with inevitably go through periods like this before and during show week.
Classes still continued to do their journaling in Google Classroom and the vocabulary is all wrapped up for the 6 weeks.
My iPad became even more useful in the classroom this week as we analyze the dances for the stage:
Not too many pictures to share since my device was the one in use. :)
Dance and Media is working so very hard on their end-of-unit project for Module 1. The lesson is called "My Signature in Motion!" and they are working in groups to create a photostory project using all of the photography, improv, and shaping skills they have learned in this 1st Module. They will be presenting the projects in the lobby at Intersection. (see above)
I was able to capture a few great images of the girls in action and can not wait to share the final projects. They will be using multiple photo editing apps along with a photostory project of their choice.
We got to expand out skills with the cameras and stage lights received with the Arts & Digital Literacy grant. And a special shout out of appreciation to new campus Community Partner: Zera Thompson of Imajinu Photography. She graciously loaned us additional photography lights and backdrops for use in this project. Our images would not be the same without it! http://www.imajinuphotos.com/about.html
For image quality and focus control, we used the digital cameras. However, the students will be doing all editing on their iPads. So how do we get from SD card to iPad? We used my laptop and dumped all their photos into our collaborative Google Classroom folder for immediate download of their favorite images they choose to edit. Day 2 of the photo shoot began with the students using the iPads to access and view photos from Day 1 to plan what more they needed for Day 2. Next classes: edit time!!
What is on the horizon for after show week? Socrative, Bubbl.us, Prezi, Padlet, Edmodo, Chatterpix and a collaborative project with Jazz and MUSIC and Media Communications.
Classes still continued to do their journaling in Google Classroom and the vocabulary is all wrapped up for the 6 weeks.
My iPad became even more useful in the classroom this week as we analyze the dances for the stage:
- In Ballet 4, I recorded sections of the dance that needed improvement and we gathered 'round to watch them using the Coach My Video app where we could analyze in slow motion and frame-by-frame.
- In Jazz 4, I recorded the dance while giving verbal feedback/critiques directly into the device. We then projected and watched the video and could hear my feedback at the same time as seeing the moves in question.
- I had a student who was not performing use the ipad to take notes to give feedback to the dancers.
- For classes with students missing, I recorded the dance and spoke directly into the device during recording to talk about sections we fixed or changed. I could then share it immediately on Google drive so that when they returned to class they were caught up with the rest of the class. #Flippedclassroom
Not too many pictures to share since my device was the one in use. :)
Dance and Media is working so very hard on their end-of-unit project for Module 1. The lesson is called "My Signature in Motion!" and they are working in groups to create a photostory project using all of the photography, improv, and shaping skills they have learned in this 1st Module. They will be presenting the projects in the lobby at Intersection. (see above)
I was able to capture a few great images of the girls in action and can not wait to share the final projects. They will be using multiple photo editing apps along with a photostory project of their choice.
We got to expand out skills with the cameras and stage lights received with the Arts & Digital Literacy grant. And a special shout out of appreciation to new campus Community Partner: Zera Thompson of Imajinu Photography. She graciously loaned us additional photography lights and backdrops for use in this project. Our images would not be the same without it! http://www.imajinuphotos.com/about.html
For image quality and focus control, we used the digital cameras. However, the students will be doing all editing on their iPads. So how do we get from SD card to iPad? We used my laptop and dumped all their photos into our collaborative Google Classroom folder for immediate download of their favorite images they choose to edit. Day 2 of the photo shoot began with the students using the iPads to access and view photos from Day 1 to plan what more they needed for Day 2. Next classes: edit time!!
What is on the horizon for after show week? Socrative, Bubbl.us, Prezi, Padlet, Edmodo, Chatterpix and a collaborative project with Jazz and MUSIC and Media Communications.
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