Pre-Thesis

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 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 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 11

This week was thanksgiving so I decided to give myself a few days of a break around the holiday so that I wouldn’t completely burn out going into the rest of the semester.

Because of my break, this will be a quick update and my progress for the week was to prepare for more important…

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 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 8

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

Week 7

This week was more secondary research as well as creating my midterm presentation.

My midterm presentation was a challenge because of the time constraint of 5 minutes. I feel like I could talk easily for 30 minutes on everything that I have learned so far so cutting it down to 5 minutes…

Week 6 Progress

This week I spent a lot of time reading for my secondary research.

I read literature reviews about the different challenges of teaching older adults. From these readings I have gotten some insight and key points to hone in on.