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Week 1, Get er done!


Now sure how this happened, but somehow the summer is over, school has begun, and week 1 is over. I feel like I blinked my eyes and somehow made it through to the weekend.

Summer wrapped up with an amazing 3 days at the Texas Cultural Trust Arts & Digital Literacy Institute where I was blessed to be a presenter for Dance and Media Communications. Since my last post I also had an article published in Dance Studio Life Magazine (link to article), and taught a Dance & Technology session for Texas Dance Educators' Association Summer Workshop, taught at 2 ballet intensives for Cedar Park Dance Company, worked on the Dance & Media RRISD ARRC, and served on a panel for RRISD NextGen Phase 3 teachers. No wonder school crept up on me so fast!

But I thrive on busy and got off to a great start. Year 2 as NextGen feels so different already. I am confident and up and running in all 6 classes on iPads already. For the 1st week we used them to collect student information, log into our Google Classroom, and set passcodes on the Drive apps. We also used a few fun Icebreaker apps to get to know other students in class.

Dance Educators already started exploring awwapp.com by joining a shared board and creating our own social contract for the class.


And Jazz 4, already explored their dance history lesson in a completely student-driven way. Using Name Selector, the students were paired and given various people, eras, or styles of dance that contributed to the development of jazz dance. They then made 30sec "infomericals" on Tellagami and Airdropped their videos to me. I complied the videos in iMovie and present back to the class for topic discussion.


This week classes will start their journal journey in Google Classroom. Took some extra time this weekend, but I have all journal questions loaded for the entire year ready to go. Work on the front end but makes life so easy for the rest of the year :) Will be exploring various ways to take notes and record our vocabulary.

Looking forward to a great year!

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