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Preferred presentation format:
Original Design

Presentation title:
“Writing or Adapting Songs for Student Inputs to Make Interactive STEM Songs”

Presenter names/affiliations:
Larry Lesser (The University of Texas at El Paso), Dennis Pearl (The Pennsylvania State University), John Weber (Perimeter College at Georgia State University), and Greg Crowther (Everett Community College)

Email address of lead presenter:
Lesser@utep.edu

Phone number of lead presenter:
9157476845

Abstract:
The first three presenters’ NSF-funded Project SMILES launched this May a collection of 26 interactive introductory statistics songs for which students choose inputs that will appear in the song played back to them on an online platform. While this song format may provide additional student engagement or learning (we are now analyzing data to assess this), having inputs (especially those that can vary in content or length) can greatly constrain the songwriting in expected and unexpected ways, and we have learned that not all prewritten songs can be retrofitted as interactive songs. We will briefly overview these issues in general and then for concrete illustration, discuss with Greg Crowther some of his songs. While Crowther wrote three SMILES statistics songs (and therefore has insight into the distinctive dynamics of interactive songs), we will discuss with him a couple of his biology songs (as an example how the principles transfer across STEM disciplines) and how prom pts, inputs, hints, and feedback would work. For an introduction to Project SMILES and interactive songs, we invite you to view in advance our 3-minute video at https://www.causeweb.org/smiles/, and then browse our song library (choose “build a song”) as desired.

Content keywords:
statistics, biology

Audience keywords:
undergraduate (though also applicable to high school)

Goal keywords:
analyze and illustrate instructor songwriting technique

Sept. 26 schedule constraints, if known:
not aware of the constraints of all presenters at this point (I know I am not currently scheduled to teach that day), but because our time zones range from Pacific to Eastern, that may mean we should avoid the very beginning or very end of the day

How you will engage the online audience:
we would have multiple presenters having a conversation, so we’d need to make sure we could do that without background noise or echo; by discussing a song that definitely could be readily SMILE-ified as well as one that would be not so readily done (and these songs would be agreed upon two weeks in advance so we can prepare accordingly), we imagine this session would easily fill up a 20-minute slot and it might be nice to have the option to go up to another 5 minutes if necessary to answer questions that might come from attendees