My good friend Keith Ozsvath has been a proponent of the daily rehearsal slide for years. He does a great job explaining why you should include this in your classroom, along with useful examples.

Check out his post here:

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by Keith Ozsvath

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Learning from Keith’s example, I’ve made use of the daily rehearsal slide the last several years. Recently, I’ve adapted the format to better fit our classroom’s physical environment.

Our band room is small, though well-suited to the size of the ensembles that rehearse there. The projector is a “short throw” type, mounted directly at the top of the whiteboard, and extending about 1.5 feet from the wall.

What this means, in practical terms, is that the display area projected is relatively small when considered against the needs of students located toward the back of the ensemble.

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**ADAPTATION #1**

Given the projection size and considering readability for all students, I found it difficult to cram all the rehearsal information into one slide effectively for our setup.

So, super-size it!

Enlarging the content now meant multiple slides.

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Fine, right?

Switching slides in a Google Slides presentation is not a big deal…except the standard method for navigating through a presentation is in a linear, start-to-finish way. I found myself wishing I could easily move between non-adjacent slides during the rehearsal.

Links to websites are easy to include in a Google Slides. Did you know that you can also link to slides within the presentation?

The “title slide” is now linked to the corresponding slide for that portion of the rehearsal — fundamentals, repertoire, announcements.

In each slide after the title slide, I’ve used our band logo as a link back to the title slide.

These links allow quick and easy back and forth as needed, in a non-linear fashion.

ONE SLIDE DECK
PER REHEARSAL

**ADAPTATION #3**

Because each rehearsal now has multiple slides, I create a new slide deck for each rehearsal. This is not as cumbersome as it might sound!

I store all the rehearsal slide decks in one Google Drive folder. When I’m ready to create a new set for a rehearsal, I right-click on the most recent slide deck, and select “Make a Copy”, and then right-click the duplicate and select “Rename”. Now I can plan the next rehearsal, building on the previous slide deck.

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Ready to try it? You can check out the Rehearsal Slide [Redesign] template using the button below.

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Enjoy!

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