Week 9

This week started by hearing the timeline for the rest of thesis. I was really suprised by how little time is left and the the expected timeline…

Week 5 Progress

This week I spent a lot of time setting up my organizational practices so that as I read I am able to keep track of everything and…

Week 14

The last week of pre-thesis! I guess this means I am halfway there? The week started by watching the rest of my classmates final presentations. They have all come really far in their work and its impressive to see where a lot of my classmates are at with their projects. It’s especially impressive the ones who…

Week 2 Progress

I spent this week exploring intersections of my areas of interests to try and discover a topic that I wanted to focus on.

The week started with the in class activity of the lotus blossom technique. My three interest I put in the center were psychology, education technology…

Week 12

Building off of the preparations I made last week, this week was all about preparing my research method materials. I spent the majority of my…

Week 13

This week went basically like this…. talked to expert, went to the Lucy Moses School, writing, writing, writing and wait for it….now more writing.

I was able to talk to Stephen Neely on Tuesday. He’s an expert in the Dalcroze method and is a professor at Carnegie Melon University. He was…

Week 10

Planning out my research

This week started with talking about research studies in class and showing how to analyze quantitative data and what type of qualitative research studies there are and what types would work well with our projects.

Week 3 Progress

This week was all about moving forward with my background research for my topic of alternative methods for education of older musicians. My professor had suggested I start with making a list of different conservatories that teach music to older students as well as other programs for older adults in…

Week 4 reflection

This past week started with a great conversation about Music technology and education. I met up with Luke Duboise to talk about his experience in music education and my thesis topic as a whole. We talked about how he played cello as a kid and how he got into music technology. However, he spent…

Week 8

I spent this week reflecting on the feedback I received from my midterm presentation.