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Open House 2020-21

Added Aug 20, 2020 •

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hello everyone I am very excited to get started with this year whichever way we will be giving instruction as I'm sure you won't you understand there will be some glitches and some learning with this but I am sure that there will be a lot of positive that will come out of this in the future especially with this decision to go either or hybrid this slide includes all of my contact information and my email and my school phone number by extension is 1045 also my office hours will be Monday through Friday. 7 which is one of the 145 this time does not can you please contact me either through email phone or through teen chat also at the bottom there are two links that will give you the most up-to-date information on the band this includes my Middle School web page do you believe that there are links on the high school web page to this Middle School web page teacher page and I do believe that there is one link to the elementary school as well but just to be safe please use my Middle School web page teacher page to stay up-to-date with all of the new information that will be coming out and also for a little bit of a quicker way to the to get the news of the Apollo Beach Beyond please join our Facebook group DePaul band boosters this will have a little bit of this a little bit quicker to send out the news this way through Facebook so again it is a Facebook group it is a lock down Facebook group so please ask to join it is the Apollo Ridge band boosters Facebook page everything this year will be posted through teams students will have a weekly assignment in addition to the weekly assignment and is also a Monday through Friday class so 5 days a week there will be some sort of instruction whether it's through resume or possibly through a new program called smart music which will we will get into in future slides but there will be instruction given through a number of different ways either through resume or through smartmusic each and every day students who are in both band and chorus will also need to make sure that they are following the day of the week course will meet Monday and Thursday band will meet Tuesday and Friday and Wednesdays are still to be determined if you take a look at the lower part of the slide dance classes will take place during normal class outlined in the typical schedule from previous years please make sure that your child is signing on to take a look at these classes so that they can receive their virtual instruction grading will be done for daily points and rehearsal attendance which will be 50% and the daily activity another 50% of their grade will be through the weekly assignments the online online activities and assignments that will be done through both teams and through smart music in addition to that all music and resources will be available for download through Microsoft teams and again we will get into this in a future slide we are using a program called smart music Apollo Ridge Virtual Academy students you will need hard copies of all sheet music if able please print these resources from home on team if you're unable to print please make sure that you contact me again you will also be using the program smartmusic smartmusic is a really really fantastic program that I am so excited to use for this year it will be used while we are in full virtual and hybrid schedule daily points rehearsal attendance daily activities as well as the online weekly activities and assignments will be assigned in smartmusic also assigned in Microsoft team so there will be a LinkedIn Microsoft teams to go to the smart music by program smartmusic has a number of really really fantastic features that I think the students will really really enjoy Easter their own username and login password they can print that music on demand some from home they can actually print the music from thousands of different titles immediate feedback is another fantastic feature the students will play their instrument into the computer and what's really really really neat is that they have a full band recording that goes with the piece that they are playing so it'll feel like they're actually playing 50 piece band or an entire Orchestra or piano accompaniment you can slow the recording down you can speed it up you can do a number of different things for the recording and you will receive immediate feedback which will show you rhythm play correctly and incorrectly you'll receive a performance score from the program and you can actually listen back to the recording immediately after the students can then submit that recording to me to get feedback from me and they can also submit that recording for grading smart music library is gigantic there's over a hundred and fifty method books over 5,000 titles from some of the best composers and top Publishers in the world there's a number of different practice tools already built in that they can use while recording is includes a metronome to keep Tempo a tuner and the ability to loot sections already built in so that they can have really really soon practice sessions is also great communication tool between both the teacher and students were they can see written comments from me but also ask questions to the teacher it is a really really fantastic program that again I am so excited to use an more information please check out the link at the bottom of the slide it is smartmusic.com features concert dress is outlined in the band syllabus but as of right now nothing will change we do not know when we will be allowed to have performances once we are allowed we will re-evaluate the uniform situation but as of right now it remain the same as outlined in the band syllabus that you can find on my Middle School web page again there is nothing planned for right now especially for the first semester semester to we will re-evaluate once again to to evaluate our situation I want to thank you in advance for your flexibility for this year again this is the same slide as in the front the slideshow is in my contact info along with the links to my teacher page and the Apollo Ridge band booster Facebook page if you have any questions please feel free to email me after open house tonight or you can Team chat me thanks again and I'm really really excited for a different year but I think one that will bring about a lot of really fantastic things in the future thank you

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