Prompt 4

The genius project has been going well for the past few weeks. The biggest improvement in the project was experiencing my student improving in piano by a great deal. I'm so proud that he has known nothing about piano or having any experience at all in the first week, to playing multiple songs in the next three. Nothing has gone haywire with my set plan, and I'm pretty sure my student is taking a great role on his part as well. I feel like as I'm nearing the end of the project that I have more things to work on such as percentage rates from the first week compared the each week and updating statistics and such things like that, but overall I'm going to have a great time with the project and I'm going to miss it in a sense that makes me feel both sad and satisfied.

Prompt 5

Hey everyone!

So far the project has been going well. i finally have all the statistics and data collected and I'm not going to have a video ready, but I am going to be giving a presentation of the data and comparing that to the very start of the first week that I taught piano. I'm actually super curious to see how many people put in so much work for their own genius project, so I think that not only is my project a priority, but maybe supporting others in their project as well is something that I could focus on. I'm pretty prepared, but I need to start practicing on how to present especially since I have my data all sussed out.

Prompt 6

Hey guys! It's another post again. Now that the genius project has officially ended, it's time to talk about some of the pros and cons to this project that I've dealt with so far. Throughout teaching piano to my students, I've learned that there's a wonderful feeling when your student finally realizes or understands the basic steps to actually playing. Some positive things that I found through my students' work were the ability to be persistent and carry that endurance to the last and final piece, which was the piece to playing songs on their own and integrating that feeling to being comfortable while playing. Through this, there were more positive changes that I saw. I conducted a study where for three weeks straight I will teach my student most of the steps applied to playing simple songs on the piano, then afterwards, I won't teach them for two weeks and see how their intelligence/ psychological skills play out. The weeks when I have taught my students consistently compared to the weeks without practice was such a huge difference based on skill level. Their emotional state/ physical state was worse compared to the weeks where they did integrate piano or have the sense of the feel of music in those three weeks.

For blog posting, I feel like I've been sorta lazy or haven't really caught up with it, but the detail is there. The reason why I haven't really been posting lately or being really thorough about posting is because the two weeks that I didn't teach, I haven't really done anything, I wasn't suppsed to necessarily do anything except have my data based on my student compared to when they come back and actually try playing like they used to just like what they did in the last other three weeks.

Prompt 3

For our study trip group, we interviewed both Improv 4 Charity and Habitat for Humanity. In Improv 4 Charity, there was a group of college students that promoted shows and made theatrical events to raise money to give for other charity groups that serve beneficial purposes. The people that have been in the group have served for about 2-3 years at most and have had experience with theater in high school but wanted to make an impact and continue their journey through college by creating their group. To serve as an impact in the world, they thought that raising money for other student led groups for charity was the best way possible since it is community-building and also community-serving.

The other study trip group that we have interviewed, was Habitat for humanity and what their group serves as a purpose is to build affordable houses and give housing options. This also eliminates interest loans. The people that have been serving in this group have been working for half a year and some, four years. The reason why this group was created was because they wanted to give back to their community and seeked non-profit organizations as well as wanting to do something "hands-on" for community serving.

Prompt 2

Hi guys! It's Marian again. If you have seen my genius project I talked about what it is about which is teaching piano, to preferably young kids, to allow their cognitive skills and their knowledge to grow. I think what went well for my presentation was that I had great confidence when I went up there. I wasn't really nervous or anything, but I think one thing I could potentially work on is trying to memorize what's already on each slide so that I keep my audience engaged and so that i can make eye contact with them as well. I feel like my volume was able to be heard and that all of my information that needed to be in there was enough. I absolutely LOVED Cecilia's pitch. She talked about her little sister and taking videos, pictures, and sharing media socially about her having memories of her sister that will soon begin to grow. I thought it was a great idea to let the audience know that even if you're years apart, you can still love and care for the people around you.

Prompt 1

Hey guys! This is Marian and today I'm going to be talking about the love of teaching for the genius project. My project is about teaching students (any age, preferably younger ones) about piano. Piano has been a part of my life for a long time and I want to share the experience with others by teaching. Piano isn't only an instrument. it's a skill builder. it helps with anything in everyday life. It changes your feeling towards things. For this project, I am teaching piano to students who have had no experience and I am going to see their growth towards feelings throughout the day and also their capability skills (asking them how they did on a recent test, homework, etc) then compare it to when I was first teaching them. The difficulties would be probably dealing with the children. For my public pitch, I'm feeling pretty confident. It shouldn't be too long, but it should be descriptive and captivating, but so far I have only gotten ideas down, but nothing written. To incorporate multimedia there has to be a sense of all twist elements such as Imagery, Word choice, etc. Hopefully you guys will like it :) Thanks!