NextGen Digital Dance Classroom

As with most fine arts classrooms, the end of the year (or semester) is a great time to complete large projects. May ended with all of our technique based courses completing choreography units with corresponding projects. I love watching the classroom become such a student-centered learning environment and most importantly witnessing such creativity in their final products. Dance 1-4 are survey courses in dance that study different styles of dance throughout the year. Therefore they have a little bit more freedom of style, yet they must fit within the guidelines of the rubric. Students in these courses had 2 written assignments that went along with their choreography. 1 was a " Choreography/Music Chart ." This is where they learn and practice the skill of counting out the music and writing the corresponding dance steps. Even last year as NextGen with iPads we had them write it out on paper to turn in. This year I made it into a Google Doc and posted in classroom to share