Planning Workshop

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This week, I was given more information about the final presentation, so I decided to spend most of this week drawing up additional plans. I will divide my presentation into three parts: motivation/past experience, learning process, and plans for the future.

During the first part of my presentation, I will talk about the motivation behind my topic selection. I will talk about my early childhood interest in music and how I use music to deal with stress. I will also talk about my previous music experience with different instruments and the differences and similarities between the processes I used to learn each instrument. I will also mention if my ability to play the viola, a similar instrument, has helped me learn the violin or if it has had no effect on helping me learn the violin.

During the middle section, I plan on diving into the general process that I used to help me learn the violin. I will mention the apps I used to help me read the treble clef as well as apps that allowed me to play along with recorded music. I will also cover my methods of practicing.

During the last part of my presentation, I will mention my intentions about playing in the future. I will also talk about factors that may hinder the likelihood of practicing the violin such as lack of resources. Since I am currently using my friend’s violin for the project, it is unlikely that I will play after I return the violin since violins are expensive. I will also mention some songs that I hope to learn as well as if the project has inspired me to learn how to play other instruments. I will also briefly mention my biggest struggles during the process.

This week, I learned some presentation techniques to help enhance my presentation. I think that it is best to make the presentation as relatable to the audience as possible to make it easier for the audience to understand the importance of my topic. I plan on opening with a personal story when I talk about my early childhood interest in music to hopefully take the audience back to a time when they wanted to learn how to do something, but was not able to at the time due to a possible lack of resources. For myself, I learned that I am finding it difficult to briefly talk about important points in 15-second intervals since I tend to over elaborate on everything and spend too much time describing unimportant details. Therefore, next week, I will work on storytelling techniques that will keep the audience engaged during my presentation. I plan on drafting the first section of my presentation since I believe that a proper introduction to a presentation is extremely important.