Over the term, I’ve been dedicating time to learning my chosen piece. When I first choose this goal, I figured I would be able to learn the entire piece with relative ease. Now at the end of term, it has become clear that my original goal was very ambitious. The song itself is about 2:50,…
Owning and designing a blog is a new experience for me. Website design is something completely new, and for me the relative ease of making a website on WordPress was very surprising. Through my many blog posts, I’ve gotten comfortable with uploading media, as this has been a key component of most of my posts….
For my free Inquiry project, I decided I would learn a song on Piano. Coming into this project with little to no experience with Piano, I’ve faced many challenges to learning my chosen piece. The first of which starts at the very beginning, with reading the music. Funny enough, I didn’t anticipate this would be…
Rich McCue gave our class a very informative talk on all things digital content creation. Among many things, Rich walked us through some basic image generation using Google Gemini, as well as beginner level video editing. After installing the video editing software, I followed the instructions and edited this simple video shown below. This entry…
Below is my week 3 documented progress. So far, I’m very happy with how the piece is coming! This week I focused on the parts I already knew, and wanted to bring those up to speed. I feel with the speed at which I can play the beginning is sufficient enough to move on to…
Below is my progress update video on the piece! I’ve stuck to my 15 minutes / day minimum practice time and am quite happy with my progress so far. Just after the video ends is when the piece gets into the very high fast part which will be tricky, but I’m excited to start learning…
After watching the discussion with Valerie and Cable Green, I found the information to be very interesting. It was quite informative to hear about how Creative Commons first came to be, and why. With the widespread public access of the internet in the early 2000’s, as Green mentions, the public quickly began to shift to…
Documented is my intial progress point for learning the song. I’ll be posting weekly progress videos to document my learning journey with the piece. I’m going to commit to practicing 15 minutes minimum / day.
I’ve decided to switch my inquiry project from learning French, to learning Piano. For my inquiry, I will be attempting to learn the linked song below over the course of the semester. I am starting from a base of little to no experience on the piano, while I did take piano lessons for about a…
Recently, our class went on a field trip to the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII). Going in, I had little to no background knowledge about the school or what it was, only to find out it was an incredibly unique, innovative school right here in Victoria! I found there to be many similarities…