{"id":3347,"date":"2015-02-09T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T06:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2015-02-09T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T06:23:55","slug":"a-cool-teacher-organized-a-school-wide-dance-party-to-uptown-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/a-cool-teacher-organized-a-school-wide-dance-party-to-uptown-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cool Teacher Organized A School-Wide Dance Party To \u201cUptown Funk\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This crazy \u201cUptown Funk\u201d dance party was filmed in the halls of A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas, Texas, USA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/2015-01\/27\/11\/enhanced\/webdr08\/enhanced-18082-1422377254-52.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It stars Theatre Arts Teacher Scot Pankey and his students and they totally did an amazing job!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/2015-01\/27\/11\/enhanced\/webdr04\/enhanced-5351-1422377253-5.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Vega, the video\u2019s editor and producer, wrote on YouTube that Pankey was the real mastermind behind the now-viral video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/2015-01\/27\/11\/enhanced\/webdr03\/enhanced-6028-1422377262-2.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great example of how a bunch of technology students let go of their fears, trusted their teacher and got down to Uptown Funk,\u201d Vega wrote.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School is a magnet school with a focus on project-based learning and as far as projects go this is a pretty good one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School - Uptown Funk Dance\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0EUEg7kd6Cg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This crazy \u201cUptown Funk\u201d dance party was filmed in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[699,182,1350,199,1371,281,1370,269],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-america","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-february-2015","tag-for-teachers","tag-project-based-learning","tag-unique-learning","tag-uptown-funk","tag-usa","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}