How? I'm an enthusiastic educator who wants to
share ideas with co-enthusiasts, and work with them
to design practical strategies for actualizing some of the
creative ideas developed by them & by me, Craig Rusbult,
who – during life on a road less traveled – earned a PhD in
Curriculum & Instruction (at U of Wisconsin in Madison) by
constructing
an integrative verbal-visual model to help us
understand Scientific Method and use it for education.
{ contact-email: craigru57-att-yahoo-daut-caum }
I'm optimistic about ways we can improve two kinds
of creative-and-critical improvising, to solve problems
and to make music using an intuitively-effective strategy
for improvising — by playing along with chord progressions,
using a keyboard that highlights notes of 3 main chords with
musically-logical colorizing (red, blue, green) — to help us
teach older people (in social centers & living facilities) and
younger people (in K-12 schools) to enjoy music in new
ways when they improve their musical improvising.
{ and also their conversational improvising }
Strategies to teach problem solving were shared
in my seminar for OSU's Engineering Education.
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Above and below are aerial photos of my UW Cities, where
I attended UW-FarWest (in Seattle) and UW-MidWest (in Madison),
enjoyed both of these wonderful cities. I moved to Seattle in September 1970
and got spring fever, with everything green and beautiful, smelling earthy after each
rain, enjoyed the blending of rainy grayness with “white clouds & blue sky” sunshining.
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Seattle was my first real city, by contrast with the vast megalopolis of SoCal,
where my old home city (Anaheim) blended into its neighbors on all sides.
Moving to Anaheim (family home, 1962-2020) was exciting yet comfortable,
then Seattle was a fun adventure, and so was Madison. And now Columbus!
iou – Soon I'll choose photos for Orange County CA, in Anaheim and elsewhere.
my first UW City, Seattle: |
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