Hi Larry,
Thank you so much for the submission, and I think it is fabulous that you
have chosen the “create your own design” presentation category.
The topic you have chosen is excellent, and Greg and I will get back to you
with specifics.
Thanks again,
Tiffany
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:36 PM Voices <voices(a)causeweb.org> wrote:
Thank you so much for submitting a proposal for VOICES
2018! We will
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certainly no later than July 31, 2018.
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The information you submitted is below:
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(a)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