{"id":3727,"date":"2017-06-01T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T00:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2017-06-01T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T00:15:58","slug":"three-state-virtual-choir-imagining-wonderful-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2017\/06\/01\/three-state-virtual-choir-imagining-wonderful-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Three state virtual choir imagining a wonderful world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/06\/2017-Imagine-a-Wonderful-World-virtual-choir.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3741 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/06\/2017-Imagine-a-Wonderful-World-virtual-choir.png\" alt=\"2017 Imagine a Wonderful World virtual choir\" width=\"705\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">click to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xu1k9d60Lvw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imagine a Wonderful World<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In April and May, three KPBSD Redoubt Elementary music classes (4th, 5th, 6th) joined students from Michigan and Texas to learn a song and employ technology to create a video with 115 young people from three states singing the same song together in a virtual choir!<br \/>\n&#8220;We are following the model of Eric Whitacre\u2019s virtual choirs, one of which <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwhitacre.com\/the-virtual-choir\/history\/vc2-sleep\">you can see here<\/a>,&#8221; said teacher, Ms. Pugia. &#8220;Students learned and recorded, individually or in small groups, a song that they and two other choirs also learned. Together, all of the videos were uploaded and multi-tracked (voice and video) into one cohesive project, so the whole song is heard as if it is sung by just one choir all in the same place!&#8221;<br \/>\nThank you to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chippewavalleyschools.org\/schools\/middle-schools\/algonquin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Algonquin Middle School <\/a>(Chippewa Valley School District) directed by Ms. Woodman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redoubtelementary.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redoubt Elementary School<\/a> (Kenai Peninsula Borough School District) directed by Ms. Samantha Pugia<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortbendisd.com\/SLMS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sugar Land Middle School<\/a> (Fort Bend ISD, Texas) directed by Ms. Capdau<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All composer credits are in video. All songs copyright to original composers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click to watch Imagine a Wonderful World In April and May, three KPBSD Redoubt Elementary music classes (4th, 5th, 6th) joined students from Michigan and Texas to learn a song &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2017\/06\/01\/three-state-virtual-choir-imagining-wonderful-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three state virtual choir imagining a wonderful world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[696,1092],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-2","tag-music","tag-virtual-choir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}