POS: Presentation Framework for Monday

Create a Word document and respond to the following questions. Your responses should serve as your "note card" for your blog presentation on Monday.

1. What is your theme-genre? How did you arrive at this decision? What inspired you?

2. Describe your research, work time, and progression in terms of sources, artists, subject matter, and logistics.

3. Describe how your writing has evolved or progressed over the semester. What writing tools or habits, learned in this course, will you carry forth in your academic career? How might writing about music aid you in other areas of written expression?*

4. Describe the experience of focusing on one (theme-genre) project for a period of 5 months. How can this long-term experience translate to other aspects of your life?

5. How would you describe your knowledge of music world before this course? What artists or songs have impacted you?

6. Which piece of writing do you identify as being your strongest? Why? What elements of this successful piece might transfer to your future writing? Paste an excerpt from this piece to read to the class.

7. Which piece of writing do you identify as being your weakest? Why? how might you change your approach to enhance your future writing?

8. Did you like the experience of using a blog to store and present your work? Or would you prefer another method of presentation?

WAVI: Guidelines for Final Concept-folio Presentation

Create a Word document and respond to the following questions. Your responses should serve as your "note card" for your blog presentation on Friday or Monday.

1. What is your concept? How did you arrive at this concept? What inspired you?


2. Describe your research, work time, and progression in terms of sources, artists, subject matter, and logistics.

3. Describe how your writing has evolved or progressed over the semester. What writing tools or habits, learned in this course, will you carry forth in your academic career? How might writing about art aid you in other areas of written expression?*

4. Describe the experience of focusing on one concept/one project for a period of 5 months. How can this long-term experience translate to other aspects of your life?

5. How would you describe your knowledge of the art world before this course? What artists or images have impacted you?

6. Which piece of writing do you identify as being your strongest? Why? What elements of this successful piece might transfer to your future writing? Paste an excerpt from this piece to read to the class.

7. Which piece of writing do you identify as being your weakest? Why? how might you change your approach to enhance your future writing?

8. Did you like the experience of using a blog to store and present your work? Or would you prefer another method of presentation?

POS: Classwork for 6-14-11



1. While YouTube is available, I'd like you to view Ken Robinson's lecture. It has little to do with music, but it has everything to do with education. He makes some intruiguing points, but please understand that his opinions are his own- I am not endorsing his claims, just acknowledging them. Click here. Robinson claims that our educational system is structured upon an antiquated approach. Describe this approach and propose some realistic changes to NHS that would accommodate his thinking.

2. Backmasking and Reverse Speech in Music: Backward messaging in music (commonly known as backmasking) has been a controversy ever since the late 1960s, when messages were found backwards on some Beatles' albums, hinting that Paul McCartney had died. Some of these subliminal messages have been identified as purposeful while some are apparently inadvertent. Some believe that many of these backward messages were in fact examples of "Reverse Speech" in music. Speech reversals occur naturally in all forms of speech, sung or spoken. Explore some of the links and sites regarding this subject and offer your opinion on at least 10 specific examples. Do you buy into the theory of Reverse Speech or is it all a bunch of hogwash?


THE THEORY OF REVERSE SPEECH AND SPEECH COMPLEMENTARITY.

(1) Human speech has two distinctive yet complementary functions and modes. The Overt mode is spoken forwards and is primarily under conscious control. The Covert mode is spoken backward and is not under conscious control. The backward mode of speech occurs simultaneously with the forward mode and is a reversal of the forward speech sounds.

(2) These two modes of speech, forward and backward, are dependent upon each other and form an integral part of human communication. One mode cannot be fully understood without the other mode. In the dynamics of interpersonal communication, both modes of speech combined communicate the total psyche of the person, conscious as well as unconscious.

(3) Covert speech develops before overt speech. Children speak backwards before they do forwards. Then, as forward speech commences, the two modes of speech gradually combine into one, forming an overall bi-level communication process.


List of Backmasked/Reverse Speech Songs

Jeff Milner's Site

Reverse Speech Site

Homemade YouTube Segments


Click here to here a well known sample of backmasking from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven". This audio file will play both forward (original context) and backward (backmasking revealed).

Ken Robinson

Click here to view Ken Robinson's lecture.

Reflection:

1. Robinson claims that our educational system is structured upon an antiquated approach. Describe this approach and propose some realistic changes to NHS that would accommodate his thinking.

2. What do you think about divergent thinking and yesterday's "paper clip" experiment? What does Robinson suggest happens to young people as they move through the system?

3. Click here to view an explanation of higher order thinking questions. Develop one strong Analysis, Synthesis, or Evaluation question to serve our discussion.

WAVI: Hot Topics

Please post the names of your group members and claim your topic here. First posted, first served.