We had our first real "lecture" with my Active
Essays today, and it worked quite well. I did a lecture Monday, but
it was just a demo of Squeak tools. Today was the first interactive
session on serious computer music issues.
Some of the things that worked the best:
- Live code examples. I put in a little exercise to play different
frequencies, to explore Just Notable Differences in frequencies. It
was great fun and really worked for generating some surprised looks
on students' faces.
- Modifiable code examples. We could tweak things, print them, and
re-execute them live, in class, in the middle of the slide.
- Adding and computing new things. We got off in a discussion of
even-tempered tuning, so we were able to compute ratios and play with
2^(1/2) by typing in examples in the middle of the slides.
We'll see how it goes as we go deeper, but I received several
comments about how well the medium worked. Particularly interesting
were the comments like, "It felt really natural, and then I thought
about it, and I realized what an amazing thing we were doing!"
"really natural" is what we are aiming for. All on this list should
try their hands at active essays on ideas they particularly like ....
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