NextGen Digital Dance Classroom

The projects for my large PBL with Music and Media students and cross-curricular connections with Chemistry are finished! I am so excited to unveil the final products!Watch our post-edit trailer for a sneak preview of what you are about to read! Here is a recap from a previous post with new updates at the end:  I met separately with the Music & Media teacher, Cayla Cardiff, as well as with Chemistry teacher Lisa Ivy, to prepare details for the project and prepared all of the documents and folders needed in Google. Special apps were loaded specifically for this class. Let me introduce to you: Elements in Music and Motion. Day 1-Music & Media students and Jazz 4 dancers met on Monday in the dance studio to hear about the big project reveal. Step 1: Pair 1 Jazz 4 dancer with 2-3 Music & Media students. Step 2: Use Name Selector to assign each group to a chosen element from the Periodic Table. Step 3: Have Jazz students access a collaborative folder th

...and all through the our dance house,  not an iPad was sleeping and no need for a mouse. The projects got going, we were grinding our gears,  in hopes that winder break soon would be here.  The apps were all loaded and kids asked with mocking dread "Mrs. Searles, what goes on in your head?!" Well, hello again! It has been awhile. I apologize for such late December posts as I have been posting weekly the whole 1st semester, however, these 2 weeks in December have gone by with such intensity that even the weekend would pass by before I had any chance to share! So I am going to break these posts up into 3 separate ones. This 1st post will recap continued daily integration as well as a few new new things and  highlight Dance & Media projects. My other 2 posts will recap the 2 projects that my students did for the end of the year. We continued to have the iPads as daily integration in our courses as we prepare for my 1st ever dance spelling test! Awwapp.com c

We only have 2 weeks of school between Thanksgiving break and final exams which only gives us 5 class days. I had 1 day of NextGen training and needed 1 day for exam review, end of semester "clean-up" and time to present final project. Which gave us the perfect magic number of 3 days for a end-of-semester projects. Ballet 1-3 was studying The Nutcracker, Ballet 4 was studying Swan Lake, and Dance 1 & 2 were both wrapping up their ballet units. So I took one project idea and modified and differentiated for all 4 classes. Check it out.... BALLET HISTORICAL PICTORIAL Dancers were assigned both a partner and topic. Ballet 4 had original dancers, choreographers, and composers of Swan Lake. Ballet 1-3 had original dancers, choreographers, and composers of Nutcracker as well as plot summary, characters, adaptations of the ballet. Dance 1 & 2 were assigned historical dancers that have or are currently making historical contributions to the world of ballet as dancers, chor