Week 13

This week I have been preparing the presentation with Audrey for the Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence digital event this year. We are almost done with our presentation. I also looked at the lesson plan Audrey has been working on. I thought it was pretty good, although it could a little polishing. I could see a lot… Continue reading Week 13

Week 12

This week, I received feedback from my peers on my lesson plan, and started planning for the Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence presentation this month. Some of the feedback I got involved refining some of the instructions so that the lesson was easier to follow and less confusing. For this, I added some extra notes in the… Continue reading Week 12

Week 11

This week, I continued to work on the lesson plan by implementing more critiques. So far with my experience using the Optron Mini, I wanted to give some of my personal opinion on the product. To begin with this, I feel like the design of the instrument could use some modifications in the future. First,… Continue reading Week 11

Week 10

This week, I continued to expand and refine my lesson plan for the Optron Mini. This included: explaining music terminology, additional questions, additional activities, additional steps, and general polish. In terms of music terminology, I wanted to lay out a basic understanding about vocabulary words that would be used in the Max 8 software. I… Continue reading Week 10

Week 9

This week, I continued on my refining and expanding on my lesson plan involving the Optron Mini. There were various places on my lesson plan that needed additional attention. I will go over the highlights to the changes I made. I first needed to consider how to ensure the facilitator of instruction was comfortable with… Continue reading Week 9

Week 8

This week, my assignment was focused on creating a lesson plan for the Optron Mini. After finally figuring out how to connect the Optron Mini to FL Studio on Windows as a MIDI instrument, I wanted to create content to show others how to set it all up. This became the basis of my lesson… Continue reading Week 8

Week 7

Interview with Cyra Sadowl I had the pleasure to have an interview with Cyra Sadowl this week to get to know some of the work that she has been doing recently in the world of STEAM education. Cyra has been working for Airway Science (Airsci) for just over a year now. Airsci is a program… Continue reading Week 7

Week 5

This week, I have been tasked with figuring out some ways the the Optron mini could be used to teach STEAM concepts in a way that would also fulfill Oregon academic standards. I decided to first see about what standards there are for music and visual arts, and then consider ways that the Optron mini… Continue reading Week 5