Interview questions

BJ: , you went from 24% to 44%. , you went from 44% to 52%.

Strike!

BJ: (To ) So your improvement wasn’t as much…

That’s because I know more (laughs)

BJ: Well, you started off knowing more.

It was good guesses, just good guesses. Did I get that Al Capo and Al thingo right the second time?

BJ: Yes.

I knew that Al Capo is back to the start because that’s Italian. Al Capo is your head like back to the start.

You’re rubbing it in aren’t you? (laughs)

1. How many times do you think you watched the animations?

Probably three.

All up I would have watched it 5 times.

2. Were they helpful?

Yes.

Yes, definitely.

3. Can you think of any improvements? suggested slowing down the pace as she thought it was a bit quick.

Slowing down the Al Capo one a fraction would be good for me because I’m a slow reader.

To me, I would find it easier if I saw it and then did the test five minutes later. I think that would have been better than to watch in and then have the holidays. Once I saw it two or three times, that was it and I didn’t think about it again so I forgot about it.

When I did the test I hadn’t seen it for a month.

BJ: had a comment that it was more like a memory test. We could have done it five minutes later, when it’s fresh in your head, but because it was a graphic thing and you’re seeing it, I wanted it to sink in permanently. It was deliberately designed so you couldn’t just memorize it.

Here’s another one. I don’t know if you can make a program like this but I’m someone who has to do something to remember it and not just see it. Like with the alarm code to get into this building; someone told me what the code was but within a minute I’d forgotten it. When someone stood there with me and I pressed it in, then I knew what it was. I have to do it to remember.

That’s like driving a car to a place. If you’re a passenger you don’t remember (how to get there) but if you’re driving the car you do.

BJ: I couldn’t agree more. I want to do further study on this where children actually play along using the computer keyboard to make it more interactive.

4. Do you think that children would understand these animations?

Absolutely.

If they were slower and if they answered questions on them and then, depending on their answers, you give them another. Like they go back and redo it.

BJ: So they can’t go on until they get one?

Yes.

BJ: I did try to make them sequential like the way it started with beat.

I think they need to respond to it so that they internalize it. To understand something you need to be able to tell someone else about it.

BJ: That’s a good point because with music there are different words for the same thing but there are certain words you need to know. Like, if you’re a mechanic and you call a spark plug by any other word you’ll confuse people.

(With children and music) it would be interesting to see what language they come up with.

Yes, that’s right.

5. Just to get a quick background on yourselves, what was the first concert you remember attending?

The first concert…that I ever went to…I went to a concert as a kid. I would have gone when I was about 11.

BJ: What was that?

I think it was a school thing in at the Town Hall so it was a concert band.

BJ: So it wasn’t something you chose to go to?

No.

What do you mean by a concert? Like an orchestra?

BJ: Well the first concert I went to was actually at a pub. I’d won tickets on the radio and because I was only 15, my mum had to go with me.

And so it was people playing the piano?

BJ: No it was a Rock band. Icehouse.

Oh OK, you’re talking about a band. I went to Burwood teachers college and there was a concert with Midnight Oil and all these people.

I’ve only started going to those sorts of concerts in the last ten years or so.

6. What is your favourite album?

Probably Beach Boys, “Summer Dreams”. I like Roy Orbison. I like that other stuff they have now like The Three Tenors.

Anything from the 80‘s.

7. Is there anything else you would like to add about this whole process?

I actually found it interesting. I had no idea that drums were marked on different positions on the lines.

Yes, I didn’t know what drum music looked like.