After wrapping up our Spring Show, we completed the state-mandated Fitness Gram required by those students receiving PE credit from any type of course.
This did not mean, however, that the iPads got a break. We were still able to incorporate their use in a many of our classes this week and look forward to their continued reboot back into the normal routine.
As we watched the video of the Spring Show, students were able to use a Google Form to complete a show critique and self/class evaluation. I love hearing about their favorite dances and votes for best lighting and choreography as well as their reflection on their own performance. It is great feedback both to me as a teacher and to the department for future show designs.
Representatives from the RRISD Education Foundation/PIE (Partners in Education) Grant came to view a master class for Jazz 4 and all academy classes took and documented their next round of strength/flexibility measurements using the Camera Roll, Coach My Video, and Google Sheets as they have continued to do throughout the year.
Ballet and Jazz classes had a little vocabulary fun this week. The made Vocab Video collages with both old (ballet) and new (Broadway) terminology. We made the colleges in Video Collage and then added the text with Text On Video. I love the way this concept turned out and look forward to similar uses in the future!
Dance 2 began it's new unit of Modern Dance. I took our our Power Point and updated it in Emaze. I then used Socrative as a way for notetaking. Not the most traditional way to use the assessment app, but I used it for the following reasons: 1. I could control the speed at which they went to the next question 2. I could see how many students had submitted an answer before I went on to the next question 3. No usernames or passwords were required, but I still had a user name to hold each student accountable. It worked well for those reasons and kept all students not only on task but also with full participation/completion!
Ballet 4 finished out our Fitness Week using the Sworkit Flexibility app to give our muscles one last stretch before heading back to "classical" ballet classes.
Next week, it will be back to iPad boot camp with journals questions ready to go in Google Classroom and vocab for Dance 2 in Quizlet. Ballet 1-3 & 4 will enjoy a little Mimio vocabulary work giving out brains the workout they need!
This did not mean, however, that the iPads got a break. We were still able to incorporate their use in a many of our classes this week and look forward to their continued reboot back into the normal routine.
As we watched the video of the Spring Show, students were able to use a Google Form to complete a show critique and self/class evaluation. I love hearing about their favorite dances and votes for best lighting and choreography as well as their reflection on their own performance. It is great feedback both to me as a teacher and to the department for future show designs.
Representatives from the RRISD Education Foundation/PIE (Partners in Education) Grant came to view a master class for Jazz 4 and all academy classes took and documented their next round of strength/flexibility measurements using the Camera Roll, Coach My Video, and Google Sheets as they have continued to do throughout the year.
Ballet and Jazz classes had a little vocabulary fun this week. The made Vocab Video collages with both old (ballet) and new (Broadway) terminology. We made the colleges in Video Collage and then added the text with Text On Video. I love the way this concept turned out and look forward to similar uses in the future!
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