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

SUMMARY

• so first we talked about what we talked about that we entered a new phase or something like that had to do with really getting the class together. Then we talked about our assignments and what we had to do.

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• I learned that maybe silence instead of being the absence of sound being the absense of white noise. Also just because that the supposed silence is endangered doesn’t mean that noise isn’t bad

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• One thing i learned about is that almost every single song can be transposed into piano chords and singular notes. Also that some songs were actually more complex lyrics wise than I thought.

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Liam A somewhat normal high school kid having a normal day with nothing out of the normal. I mean other than the election for president is in a few days and their is a global pandemic. But other than those small details it was a normal day. He got up this morning looking at his clock realizing school was in 10 minutes. At first casually getting out of bed then as his brain started to wake up he realized that SCHOOL WAS IN 10 MINUTES. So he quickly put on clothes and didn’t bother with anything else. He opened his chromebook signed in for the day and joined the class zoom for english. As soon as he went on he regretted it because today was the day that he had to prepare for a boring argumentative essay. Liam then looked at his assignment where you had to submit your question. His question was whether students should go to school before Corona is over or not. Well the teacher had marked some pronunciation errors but then came the big Whammy. “I am not sure how this would work because one of your sources has to be a book and there hasn’t really been time to have books published on that subject. I was ABSOLUTELY DEVESTATED. Oh no now I have to think of another question. For the rest of the class I pondered what I should do. And even into the next class at 10:50 I couldn’t think of anything. I may have overexaggerated (I did) some of this so don’t think I am having a mental break down or anything 🙂

STUDIO (SONGWRITING)

•  https://academy.soundtrap.com/p/soundtrap-expert

CONTROL ROOM (RECORDING & MIXING)

What is Workflow?

Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/

“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com

What is a quality workflow?  How do we develop it?  Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something.  First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage.  Read on and find out!

Stages of Creation Development

Inspiration

How do we find ideas to develop?

• Our Chromebooks are good tools as well as just the instruments that we play. Also just listening to the music.
• The process that would work is to listen to music and fiddle around for a while and then bring it to the table and share it with everybody.
• I don’t think there really is a way to measure quality for inspiration. It is different for everybody.
• as I said before it is kinda hard to measure inspiration

Intention

How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?

• talking always work, but our blogs like this one works just as well.
• if you tell us what you want us to do like write a song with a few classmates or by ourselves or whatever you like.
• If the person has stated what they are planning to do then they are doing pretty well
• Mr. Leduc measure quality of our specific goals because I don’t think that students would really find it interesting to look over someone goals than the finished project.

Pre-production

How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?

• To brainstorm and plan our ideas the blog and sound trap and your instrument would be the best tools
• I really think that it depends on the person and what the person is interested in playing. But the process could be 1. what you want to play 2. coming up with jobs for certain people in your project (lead guitar, rythm, singer, drums etc… 3. start coming up with ideas for your part.
• you can ask each group what are they doing and if they are getting on well
• Mr Leduc would measure the quality

Production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.

• a room where we can actually talk to each other privately and focus on the project. sound trap and instruments
• well we could on our own come up with our own part a little and then come together in a room or in this case, zoom and soundtrap. work on it for a while and come up with the song
• see if we are communicating well with eachother and getting stuff done and writing a song
• I think Mr. Le Duc would measure quality

Post-production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.

• well soundtrap would be useful and the recording room
• well after we finish the song playing the song and memorizing our part and then playing it.
• listen to the song both with all the instruments and maybe just instruments singularly
• I think the whole class should because unless someone is super shy then the whole class should listen to it

Presentation/Performance

How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?

• a stage could be useful (for if we are playing live) and soundtrap to use that recording.
• well maybe we could send a recording of it to whoever wants to listen to it and we can also play live in front of people if possible
• the people who listen to it could say the goods and bads about it
• the people who listen to the song would measure the quality

Feedback

How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?

• I don’t there are really any tools needed except for the recording
• people could listen to it and fill out a form about what they liked and what could be better. But the questions should be about the playing of it not whether they liked that type of music.
• a form that asks a bunch of questions about the song
• the whole class including the students who made it

INSTRUCTIONS

1. WRITE THE PERSON’s NAME IN THE TITLE OF THE POST
2. COPY AND PASTE THE COMPLETE BLOG POST BELOW
3. PLACE A PICTURE WITH CITATION AT THE TOP OF THE POST
4. DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s WORDS, AFTER YOU WRITE YOUR OWN
5. PUBLISH 

Born: 19 February 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Personal Success Definition

I define success of someone who started with nothing special gained something and became something better.

Tony Iommi was very successful because he started as a factory worker in Birmingham and ended up being a world famous rock star. Tony Iommi also brought about a new kind of music that has not been seen before and started a new era of rock music. He also of recent times have been auctioning stuff off some of his personal items to give to mostly charities for cancer as he himself has cancer.

Skills for Success

Tony Iommi is a 1) amazing guitarist 2) amazing composer of music 3) can persevere. Tony Iommi knows how to play a guitar an inspired many people to create music. He himself had been in many bands before he got famous in Black sabbath. He also can compose music very well in an interview he describes the roles of the different band members. He was the base of it all he usually came up with a very cool riff and the band went off of that. He also can persevere very well. before they put out there first album Tony Iommi had a factory accident and chopped off the tips of his fingers. Yet he still played guitar even when he had to wear leather on the tips of his fingers to play. Many people would have just given up by then.

How They Used These Skills

EXAMPLE: Tony Iommi used his skills to create the songs and music that we all love from Black Sabbath. He also used them to create the music genre of heavy metal of which Tony Iommi was really the founder.

Challenges Overcome

He had to overcome the tips of his fingers being chopped off which would have been a metaphorical death to a guitarist. He also had to become famous and put out good music that would make him become famous. Most guitarists don’t become famous no matter what they play.

Significant Work

Tony Iommi started to auction off some of his musical things to give to cancer institutions and Covid stuff.

Resources

https://patient-innovation.com/post/1662?language=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Iommi