Write a few sentences reflection about what you learned
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OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)
Set a timer
Spend up to 15 minutes outside, if you can safely
Go for a walk. Think about your life as a narrative for today. A story of today. You as the protagonist. What/who is your nemesis? Are you trying to win/accomplish something? What? Write notes here about what you thought… and experiment with your blog. Maybe change the theme? Have fun!
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STUDIO (GAME DESIGN)
Set a timer
Spend up to 30 minutes in this ‘room’
Create 5 project ideas
Enter at least five core game (i.e. product) ideas to be considered for your own game development later in the year
These do not need to be very detailed ideas, just a few sentences to capture the main game concept
Write a detailed description of the game idea
Identify the game genre (detailed above in this post) for inspiration
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LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)
Set a timer
Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’
This week spend extra time on the Sneak on the Lot First Time User activity, if you need to
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OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)
Set a timer
Spend up to 15 minutes outside, if you can safely
Go for a walk. Think about your life as a narrative for today. A story of today. You as the protagonist. What/who is your nemesis? Are you trying to win/accomplish something? What? Write notes here about what you thought… and experiment with your blog. Maybe change the theme? Have fun!
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WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION
Spend 3 minutes on this activity
Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
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What is Workflow?
Image Creative Workflow from Behance.com, https://www.behance.net/gallery/27919515/Creative-workflow-GIF
Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/
“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com
What is a quality workflow? How do we develop it? Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something. First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage. Read on and find out!
INSTRUCTIONS
FILL IN THE QUESTIONS BELOW FR EACH STAGE OF PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
PUBLISH
Stages of Creation Development
Inspiration
How do we find ideas to develop?
WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
WHO MEASURES QUALITY?
Intention
How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?
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PUBLISH
Who is one of your mentors?
DELETE THIS PARAGRAPH AFTER READING IT… This is a case study in success. What is success? How do you define it? Who has been successful, from your perspective? I want you to define success for yourself and find an example of this success in the people around you. The person can be famous or family. Success is everywhere. I want you to find it and examine it. What made this person successful? Through examining success in others it helps us see a path to success ourselves. I want you to practice being successful in all areas of your life. So, engage in this case study and find and fill in the information listed below. I used Bill Gates as an example.
Image of Bill Gate from Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_2018.jpg
List the person’s birthday and place
EXAMPLE: Born: October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington
Personal Success Definition
EXAMPLE: I define success as someone who creates amazing art or material for the world and who gives back to people around them.
State why are they successful, with your definition?
EXAMPLE: Bill Gates has created a successful business. He helped bring about powerful, useful computer applications. He has also helped improve the living conditions for millions of people through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Skills for Success
Describe what skills did they need to master to become successful?
List and describe at least 3
EXAMPLE: Bill Gates is a 1) computer programmer, 2) smart businessman and 3) poker player. Bill was interested in computers from an early age and learned to write small computer programs. He was also very smart, “Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[18] and subsequently enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.[19] Prior to the mid-1990s, an SAT score of 1590 corresponded roughly to an IQ of 170. . . ” – Wikipedia. Bill quit Harvard to start a computer programming company that wrote programs for one of the first hobbyist computers, the MITS Altair 8800. He was also an avid poker player.
How They Used These Skills
Explain how did they use these skills to achieve success?
Picture of Altair 8800: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITS_Altair_8800
EXAMPLE: He and Paul Allen used their abilities as programmers to build some of the first programs for hobbyist computers. This brought them business prospects which they capitalized upon. Being a poker player helped him with business negotiations. He was clever and very persuasive. Bill made a shrewd business decision that led to computer software licensing as we know it and helped him build financial success.
Challenges Overcome
Describe what challenges they had to overcome to be successful?
EXAMPLE: Bill Gates had to overcome the stress of starting a small business and the doubt of the people who didn’t see a successful future for Microsoft. There were hard times for Microsoft in the beginning. Lean times of low cash flow where success was in doubt. He persevered through to see his company grow. He also had a vision of what his company could become.
Significant Work
Embed something they have made that is significant, famous, etc. This could be a song, YouTube video, an image. Something to show the reader. The embedded media will give the reader context for this person. Write a brief decription of the media you embedded.
EXAMPLE:
Image from https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ on 9-28-2020
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helps people in the United States and around the world.
Resources
Include three resources in your entry, unless it is someone you know, then you can be the information source.
Remember, people don’t care about your work, you have to MAKE them care. You can do this by placing a sticking, relevant image at the top of your post and HOOK them into wanting to read your SUMMARY, then if your summary is effective they will want to explore the rest of your work.
Write a reflection about how you improved the final version after the feedback from a peer evaluation and what you think are the strongest parts of your design – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
Tell your story here!
Highlight what you learned and enjoyed most about this project
For example:
What feedback did you receive from your peers and what improvements did you make because of that feedback?
What were the most challenging parts of this project?
What are you most proud of in your work?
What resources did you use to create your design?
Identify where in your design you satisfy some or all of the GenCyber principles; Integrity, Availability, and Keep It Simple
Include at least one problem you solved
Problem-solving is one of the most important skills you need in life. Employers want to know HOW you get stuff done as much as WHAT you got done – AND THEN DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS!
ACTIVITY EVALUATION
Content (The WHAT)
Rating: OK – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – HIGHLY ENGAGED
Rating: ? – (Place a number here)
What interested you about the material?
Process (The HOW)
Rating: OK – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – HIGHLY ENGAGED
Rating: ? – (Place a number here)
What about this activity structure, steps, or process engaged you most? Why?
Write your class summary last, at the end of the course here… Only one to two sentences. How would you explain this class to a friend in one to two sentences?
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LEADERSHIP ACTIVITY
Write a couple sentences reflecting on your ‘Big Project’
Include a reflection on what you learned by doing this project.
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2 (not really)
3 (sorta interested)
4 (interested)
5 (YES! – I LOVE THIS STUFF!)
Your score: ?
CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)
Write a reflection on what you learned. How interested were you in learning about music theory and song analysis?
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Your score: ?
LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)
Write a reflection on what you learned. How interested were you in learning about HookLab and HookTab?
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Your score: ?
PRACTICE ROOM (LESSONS)
Write a reflection on what you learned. How interested were you in learning to play the guitar, bass, piano, etc.?
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Your score: ?
STUDIO (SONGWRITING)
Write a reflection on what you learned. How interested were you in learning about songwriting, music composition structure, and music production?
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Your score: ?
CONTROL ROOM (RECORDING & MIXING)
Write a reflection on what you learned. How interested were you in learning about recording, engineering (sound effects, EQ), and mixing?
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Your score: ?
OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)
Write a reflection on what you learned. How interested were you in learning about topics related to the brain, creativity, emotional health, and productivity?
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Your score: ?
STAGE
Write a reflection on what you learned. How interested were you in what we watched and did?
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Your score: ?
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WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
Tell your overview class story narrative here!
Highlight what you learned and enjoyed THE MOST for the past three weeks
Highlightat least one thing you overcame that was hard for you, at first, an achievement you are proud of.
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THE COURSE’s ACTIVITY EVALUATION (OVERALL)
Content (The WHAT)
Rating: OK – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – HIGHLY ENGAGED
Rating: ?
What interested you most about the CONTENT material in this class?
What was the most surprising, satisfying thing you learned that you didn’t know before?
Process (The HOW)
Rating: OK – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – HIGHLY ENGAGED
Rating: ?
What did you like most about the CLASS STRUCTURE, ya’know the day-to-day work process? Why?
What didn’t you like most about the class structure?
If you took the class again, what would you change?
Write a reflection of the key topics that grabbed your attention.
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OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)
Watch how to present with power and poise
Great presentations have many ingredients from the structure of the visuals to the delivery. But what makes it all work from voice, eye contact, word choice, body language, the visuals used, etc. Let’s take a look at the act of successfully presenting or pitching an idea to reveal these ingredients.
Go for a walk and think about what these videos and the slideshow mean to you.
Journal here about that. The more detail the better.
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STAGE
We will work on MusicWill.org materials when ‘on stage’.
This is the performance room.
Reflect on which instrument you picked to work on first.
ALSO: We will share student work that people are working on and give them feedback
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WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
Tell your daily story here! Highlight what you learned and enjoyed most and at least one problem you solved. Problem-solving is one of the most important skills you need in life. Employers want to know HOW you get stuff done as much as WHAT you got done.
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TODAY’s ACTIVITY EVALUATION
Give feedback on the class Content and Process
Participation will be part of your leadership project due at the end of the course
Go for a walk and think about what this video meant to you.
Journal here about that. The more detail the better.
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STAGE
We will work on MusicWill.org materials when ‘on stage’.
This is the performance room.
Reflect on which instrument you picked to work on first.
ALSO: We will share student work that people are working on and give them feedback
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WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
Tell your daily story here! Highlight what you learned and enjoyed most and at least one problem you solved. Problem-solving is one of the most important skills you need in life. Employers want to know HOW you get stuff done as much as WHAT you got done.
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TODAY’s ACTIVITY EVALUATION
Give feedback on the class Content and Process
Participation will be part of your leadership project due at the end of the course
“We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backward? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.” – TED.com
“My first thing I have my students do is write a mission statement. And that mission statement has three sentences. What do I want to do, how do I achieve it, and why am I doing it? And based on that mission statement, I teach them. And I have, my fundamental teaching to them is, I want you to rise above the cycle of punishment and reward. I’m not going to reward you or punish you. This is information, and you can do what you want with this information. So, you’re always actualizing. And I always tell them, if you want to learn something I can’t stop you. If you don’t want to learn it, I cannot teach you.”
Go for a walk and think about what this podcast meant to you.
Journal here about that. The more detail the better.
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STAGE
We will work on MusicWill.org materials when ‘on stage’.
This is the performance room.
Reflect on which instrument you picked to work on first.
ALSO: We will share student work that people are working on and give them feedback
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WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
Tell your daily story here! Highlight what you learned and enjoyed most and at least one problem you solved. Problem-solving is one of the most important skills you need in life. Employers want to know HOW you get stuff done as much as WHAT you got done.
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TODAY’s ACTIVITY EVALUATION
Give feedback on the class Content and Process
Participation will be part of your leadership project due at the end of the course
Write a reflection of the key topics that grabbed your attention.
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OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)
The Marshmallow Experiment and Delayed Gratification
“…a seemingly simple experiment devised by Walter Mischel to test will power: put a kid in a room with a marshmallow, and tell her if she can resist eating it for 15 minutes, she can have 2 marshmallows. It turns out the kids who could wait were much more likely to be successful as adults. “- RadioLab.org – Your Future in a Marshmallow
Two sources for more information on your success and delayed gratification
We will work on MusicWill.org materials when ‘on stage’.
This is the performance room.
Reflect on which instrument you picked to work on first.
ALSO: We will share student work that people are working on and give them feedback
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WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
Tell your daily story here! Highlight what you learned and enjoyed most and at least one problem you solved. Problem-solving is one of the most important skills you need in life. Employers want to know HOW you get stuff done as much as WHAT you got done.
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TODAY’s ACTIVITY EVALUATION
Give feedback on the class Content and Process
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