Month: November 2020

• CTIONS

“‘Be shapeless and formless.. like water’ (Bruce Lee)” by Akinini.com is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

“Have a mind like water.”

― David Allen,  GTD

SUMMARY

• On wednesday I did most of my homework as usual. But then I forgot to do this assignment till an hour before class.

PRACTICE ROOM (GUITAR LESSONS)

• I got to how to play seven nations army. (he didn’t tel how to play the whole song). I also skipped some stuff because I have been playing fo a while

Watch Mary Spender: Powerful advice from 10 Professional Musicians you need to hear (14:15)

• Continue his 117 Free Lessons YouTube Playlist
• Check out his web site, justinguitar.com.
• The first 10 videos take less than an hour.

• Be curious about Justin.
• Mr. Le Duc considers him the best beginning guitar teacher online. He’s not the only one that thinks this.  Check out some of the celebrity endorsements at justinguitar.com.

How interested in learning more about playing the guitar?

• 1 (YUCK!)
• 2 (not really)
• 3 (sorta interested)
• 4 (interested)
• 5 (YES!)

Your score: 5

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• I learned how to use Capos well. And what they are used for because I knew about them just not what they were used for. A problem that I had was that I actually kept forgetting to do this assignment. I am right now actually doing it about an hour before class so yeah.

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
  • Fill in the Weekly Activity Evaluation
• DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

Teens are overwhelmed, partly because they don’t yet have the skills to manage the unprecedented amount of stuff that enters their brains each day.  – from LifeHacker.com

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

― David Allen, (GTD) Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World

SUMMARY

• I did most of my homework from my classes on wednesday and Thursday and then came. Then on Friday I did this assignment. For this assignment I also worked on CATolithism my religion because that was something I needed to get done

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• easy 2 chord songs.

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

You are going to learn to develop your own version of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) process in this ‘room.’

• you can’t have freedom to make a mistake or a mess when where you are working is a mess. Also creative ideas and inspiration doesn’t take any time at all so time is not the problem when you are trying to stuff. Also make sure you do easy things that can take very little time early and leave the longer tasks for later. But make sure you plan for them. It helps with stress if you write stuff down and then make sure you do it later so you don’t think about it since you know you are going to do it later

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

Examine Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed

1. Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
2. Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below

GTD-based Trusted System

• Examine and pick a trusted system from the 4 options listed below to ‘capture’ your work
  • A trusted system is your method for managing your tasks in a way that you consistently get things done

1. Trello.com with a – GTD Template
   • We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
     • You will create a Trello account a few weeks from now regardless
     • You might want to start now
   • We start using Trello in the second semester
   • Watch Mr. Le Duc Creating a Trello Account and Add GTD Template Tutorial (3:45)
   • You can get the free Trello app at the Apple Store or Google Play
   • 
2. Your phone
3. Paper and pen or pencil
4. Examine LifeHacker.com’s GTD Resources
   • Try a To-Do List That Lives in Your Tabs

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

OPTIONAL EXERCISE

• Read Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World by David Allen

STUDIO (CREATING MAPS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes
• Then watch David Allen summarize the steps
  • “Very simple folks! …
    1. Just WRITE STUFF DOWN
    2. Decide the ACTIONS and OUTCOMES embedded in them
    3. Get yourself a MAP OF ALL THAT so you can step back and take a look at it.
    4. And then, basically, you USE THE MAP TO DECIDE, “OK, here’s the course that we’re going to go on.”
    5. You then LAUNCH the ‘ship’ on a trusted course in the short term, as well as on the long horizon that you’re moving on.
    6. And then, on a regular basis, you need to REASSESS, “OK, we need to take in NEW DATA, CLEANUP, RECALIBRATE, and REFOCUS for the next leg of the journey.”
  • It’s that simple…”
• ‘Capture’ all the ACTION ITEMS you can in your GTD Trusted System

CONTROL ROOM (PRODUCTION)

• Set a timer
• Spend 10 minutes in this ‘room’
• Share your system with the class in the Schoology Week 10 Discussion Board
  • Take a picture or screenshot and post on our Schoology page
• Prepare to briefly share how your system helps you…
  1. Capture Action Items
  2. Process them
  3. and Organize them
• DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• I learned that getting stuff done is both more complicated but easier than I thought

“Day 092/366 – To Do List” by Great Beyond is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Your toughest work is defining what your work is! –  Peter Drucker

SUMMARY

• first in class we watched the videos we had to watch then I worked on part 1 of the blog then I worked on part 2 of the blog

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

In this ‘room’ you are going to try Getting Things Done (GTD).

STEP 1: MAKE A LIST

• math homework
• english source noodletools assignment
• biology thing
• PE

STEP 2: NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICED

• English source nooodle tools thing
• biology assignment
• Math homework
• PE

STEP 3: SET A TIMER

1. Set a timer for your first task
   1. Decide how long you think it will take before you start
2. Start working
3. Repeat this process for 45 minutes for as many tasks as you can complete, then take a 15-minute break
   • Get up and get a drink of water
   • Get up and go for a walk
   • Every 20 minute blink your eyes 20 times while looking at least 20 feet away
     • This is good for your eyes

Start steps 1 through 3 again, repeat for your school day

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 20 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch the first 30 seconds of this Oct. 2020 interview with David Allen

• Reflect on GTD and getting to the top of the colorful list above for a minute
  • How can the GTD process help you tame the crazy-busy dragon of modern life?

• Then, go for a 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
• Write a few sentence reflection
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

OPTIONAL EXERCISE – Literally, read the article and go for another walk 🙂

“I coach C-suite executives and rising stars from the earliest startups to Fortune 100 companies. My passion is to help ambitious leaders achieve their full human potential.”  – Read more about Katia…

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes reading…
  • FastCompany Magazine article about Katia Verresen’s techniques and GTD, https://www.fastcompany.com/3026827/the-brain-hacks-top-founders-use-to-get-the-job-done
• Then, go for another 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• I learned that procrastination never goes away no matter how you try
• I also learned that am not very good at organizing what is most important in my schedule I usually pick what I want to do first.

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
  • Fill in the Weekly Activity Evaluation
• DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

SUMMARY

• first what I did was did watched the weekly video in class then on Sunday (because of reasons) I did the rest of the assignments for the blog.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• anchor finger practice

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• All music is more simiar than it seems under the surface
  • all music is based on pentatonic
  • different parts of the world have different scales
  • as music became more sophisticated they had bigger intervals between notes
  • all popular music in the last 100 years is diatonic
  • many songs change the same melody over a song
  • even popular music now a days use folk music.

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• I learned how to set up melodies with hookpad and all the keyboard shortcuts as well as how to put twinkle twinkle little star into hookpad in 20 seconds

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• I find it interesting that she is talking about people asking her if she is afraid that her books will never succeed. although I am only 14 I have played guitar for 2 1/2 years and no one has asked if I was afraid if I would ever become a star. Because I am pretty stubborn about being a guitarist even if I play in bars every saturday.

STUDIO (SONGWRITING)

• theme: Long more flowing melodic idea
  • motive: a short rythmic idea
  • period: 8 measure melody
  • phrase: 4 measure of a melody
  • phrase 1: antecedent phrase
  • phrase 2: consequent phrase
  • step: movement using half or whole steps
  • leaps: intervals larger than a whole step
  • conjunct motion: melody mostly out of steps
  • disjunct motion: melody mostly out of leaps
  • repetition: repeated material used as a bridge between the two phrases of a period
  • contrast: two phrases that contain contrasting material
  • variation: the two phrases have to of the same material and some different
  • tonic: first note in a scale
  • supertonic: the second note in a scale
  • Mediant: third note in a scale
  • subdominat: fourth note in sclae
  • Dominant: fifth note in a scale
  • Submediant: 6th note in a scalre
  • leading tone: 7th note in a scale

Melody Resources

Mr. Le Duc’s Key of C Major Notes and Chords Chart (PDF)

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• What I enjoyed most was the hook theory thing because using hook theory sound like a lot of fun. One thing that I solved was I was having problems with the justin guitar thing. I was kinda confusing but then I just had to click a button and it fixed itself