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Category Archives: Cobra Beats
Beatmaking & Neuroscience
An important conversation around the value of Hip Hop beatmaking through a therapist, educator and Hip Hop beatmaker/DJ, Dr. Elliot Gann. Shout out to Today’s Future Sound!
Mental Health therapy Through Hip Hop Beat Making with Dr. Elliot Gann: click here
Virtual Clubs @ Canyon Hills Middle School
Currently, I sponsor two clubs at Canyon Hills Middle School, our Cobra Chess Club, 2x Regional Chess Champions active since 2017 and the Cobra Beats Club, a music beat making club that started this summer in 2020. For more information on how to join contact Mr. Lee @ ltrhyane@episd.org or mrleebooks@gmail.com. Our club welcomes participation from 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students at Canyon Hills Middle School. I also volunteer with the El Paso Public Library and can provide info on ways to connect to both Chess and beat making supports asynchronously or through connection with community members and schools. Below are quotes from an article recently published in edutopia by Vivian Hernandez titled ‘Creating Online Clubs for Students During Remote Learning’. The link below will open a new tab with the full article displayed at edutopia.
“When educators sponsor a student club, they’re building community. These clubs can be volunteer, scholarly, skills-based, etc. However, they all have one common element: They bring students together.” – Vivian Hernandez
“Student clubs do not have to stop because of Covid-19. In fact, they may be more important now than ever.” – Vivian Hernandez
Article provides great resources on starting a coding club and makes an important point for how to create asynchronous activities to allow students that are busy to still participate. The idea is to allow all students to join! At Canyon Hills, our Cobra Chess Club and Cobra Beats club both have Schoology Group pages that members can join to stay up to date on events, meeting times and other learning opportunities. Along with the link to the full article by Vivian Hernandez, I’ve posted our Cobra Chess Club flier and a flier created by our first member of the Cobra Beats club this past week. She goes by Dark Mayhem and is also a member of the Cobra Chess Club. They call her Queen Abalea aka The Nightfall.
Article title: Creating Online Clubs for Students During Remote Learning. To read the article in its entirety visit edutopia click here. Author: Vivian Hernandez @SPRINGintoDL Date 9/28/2020
