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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
On the first day of class we did an exploration into potential topic ideas. In class we did the Materializing Metaphors activity. I started with three phrases on sticky notes on things that interested me. I had a hard time putting my thoughts into three concise sticky notes. I ended up changing my mind a…
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…