As I have come to visit all of you at your various workplace sites I have discussed with you and your mentors your final projects. I asked you to think about how your work relates to a bigger picture or larger task that will benefit the workplace or the company as well as you. To continue this process please reflect on the following:
Please describe in detail the work that you have currently been engaged in
and how that work relates to the larger whole of the workplace you are
currently involved with.
In addition, have you decided on a project for your WLE? If so, please
describe what your plan is for your final project. If you have not choosen
a project, please explain what possibilities exist and which one(s)
interest you the most.
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I have been doing a few different things at my WLE. I do billing for the miscellanious tests that are ordered. This is important because the y need to be done by hand. The person that usually does them can get busy and they don't get done as fast as they could be. I also transport specimen samples from the outpatient center to the lab. I centrifuge blood samples and refirigerate the urine samples. This is important not only for my workplace, but for the out patient center as well. If the samples don't get taken from the outpatient center, the already small place would be overflowing with samples. If the blood samples aren't spun in the centrifuge about an hour after they are taken, the quality of the sample begins to drop. The urine is put in into the refrigerator to slow the growth of bacteria and if it isn't done the sample is compromised.
I have decided on create a hanbook for future volunteers. The hanbook will describe each job that they will do and instructions on how to do it. Aso it will show the importance of the job to the hospital, so the volunteers know that what they are doing i meaningful and should be done in an effeciant mannor.
As an assignment all the interns have been working on individual projects. My project has been to edit the Zeum Masters' Winter Olympic video.
So far the editing process has been very hard for me. Oh, let me count the reasons why.. FINDING the video of the Winter Olympics wasn't easy. Cutting it down from 45 minutes to 5 wasn't easy. Actually understanding the events in the movie wasn't easy. And having a deadline has been hard too. But fun!
Even though this has been challenging I still just tried to have fun. So I jumped right into the editing process by first watching all the footage. "Not as easy as it sounds"....But I did it and then started editing and cutting left and right. I've been lucky and have had some experience with this but like I said, this hasn't been an easy process!
The first day of editing I was able to cut the video down to about 7 and a half minutes. This was a great success but I ran into one problem I needed a good upbeat song. As I finished the day strong, I decided I need to find the song. So on my commute home I had my Ipod on shuffle and listened while my rough draft of a video played in my head. After 8 songs that didn't work including The Shins and Bloc Party I finally found a song. "YESSSS."!
I can't wait to show the video to the Zeum masters to get their feedback to see what they think.
So far at my workplace learning experience I've been doing things such as sending out bills to clients, entering data into a database with Microsoft Excel, and managing the physical files in the office. This is all very important in the operation of the office, because everything needs to be in its proper place or else work cannot continue.
Soon I'm going to order new hardware for the current computers in the office so they can handle the extra load they've been under recently. My mentor's computer doubles as the admin computer on the network, so extra load is put on it, which causes it to almost always run out of RAM.
I'm also considering working out a method to balance the work load of all of the computers, which will increase general load on the computers in general, but will have the benefit of not overloading an individual computer at one time.
As far as my project goes, I'm not quite sure as to what I want to do. I was hoping I could document the increase in efficiency of the computers on the network after I upgrade them and documenting the % change in load. Then I would be presenting that information in graph form.
I am doing my internship at Spring Valley Elementary School with Mr. Mac’s 5th grade class. During my time there, I help set up activities the 5th graders do, tutor the 5th graders in math and English, observe the kids, and doing paperwork as in correcting tests and homeworks. I also run tasks for my mentor, like going to the office and asking the office person, Ms. Lee to make copies for him. This work relates to the larger whole of the workplace learning I am currently involved with because I want to be a teacher and being a teacher you would have to set up activities, tutor kids, and paperwork.
Last week I went to my internship and help set up the science project they were going to do. I had to poor borax into cups and boil hot water. I had to cut strings, give out pipe cleaners, and give out pencil for the crystal project they were doing. It looked really fun. I helped clean up and washed the cups and things like that. I corrected tests and observed the class.
I am now preparing for my project. I am going to do arts and crafts with the class. It’s going to be a ‘hand print spring tree’. You would need construction paper and the trace your hand. Cut it out. Cut little pieces of tissue paper and wrap it on the eraser tip part of your pencil and then glue it to the fingers part of the hand, so it will look like flowers/blossoms. Do it for all the fingers. Then on the palm part of the paper you would write one to two things you like about spring. I have mentioned this project to my mentor, Mr. Mac, and he said it’s okay for me to do that, so I will be doing this project with the kids sometime this month.
Journal Entry #5
I have been engaged in a series of assignments everyday in my WPL. But I am mainly involved with record management in the Misdemeanor unit. Record management includes filing, making copies for the pretrial diversion department, inputting data into the computer and working with subpoenas (just recently started). The work that I have been doing helps out everyone in the office because filing and inputting data helps the offices become organized and up to date. Making copies of police incident reports will help out the pretrial diversion. Mailing out subpoenas and inputting data into the subpoena system to note dismissed cases will help the IPP department to get their subpoenas on track.
I have thought of ideas for my project. Some of the ideas include making a website for the office, making a flash animation or a pamphlet of things I’ve learned and creating a game board, like Monopoly, that deals with the district attorney’s office. But one topic that my mentor wants me to focus on is the subpoenas. Recently a new system has been created to improve the subpoena process and my mentor wants me to help with the process. I have thought of project ideas that may involve the subject of subpoenas. A project that I have decided on is creating a guide on subpoenas. This guide will include the process of what the attorneys go through to get their subpoenas ready for the Assistant Investigator and then to the IPP department. I could add a second part to the guide that shows what the individual (the person that receives the subpoena) has to go through when she/he receives the subpoena. I also thought about making illustrations for the guide to make it more interesting, something like a comic showing the process.
I think that this project will help benefit the workplace, other people and myself because the guide will reference the process of subpoenas and it will be helpful for workers or other interns in the office to become familiar with the process.
The work I have currently been doing at the Marine Mammal Center has been mostly feeding Elephant Seal pups. When I get there at 7 AM the first thing I do is go to the kitchen and weigh out the fish. The fish are fed to all the seals at the Marine Mammal Center. Some of the animals have to be tube fed and to do this we blend fish with salmon oil and powdered milk. The reason they have to be tube fed is because when they are young they only drink the formula they get from there mothers. Our goal in tube feeding them is to get them fat and ready to be on there way back in the ocean again. We slowly stop tube feeding them and give them bits of fish at a time. We call this “fish school”. Once they get the small bits of fish down, we start giving them whole fish. This process takes a few weeks for them to learn. When tube feeding one seal, it requires both a restrainer who holds down the seal and a tube feeder that obviously sticks the tube down the throat and then injects the food in the stomach. Again like I said before the ultimate goal working at the Marine Mammal Center is to get these animals healthy and ready to go back in the ocean. Another large task is the cleaning. After the feeds, all the dishes have to be washed and sterilized. After the morning feed I have spent a few hours just cleaning dishes. There is also a feed at 12, 2, and 4 during the day. At night the evening crew comes in and feeds them again. With all this eating the seals are doing you can imagine how dirty the pen floors and pools get. A chunk of the day is spent cleaning the pens with brushes and refilling the pools with clean water.
The project I have decided on has been to track the progress of one inpaticular sea elephant who we know came from the Farallon islands and swam to Santa crews in only 2 days! This special animal is named Tomar. This is a very impressive because she swam that far when she was only 2 weeks old. She was found in Santa Crews covered in tar on the beach where they took her to Monterey bay and then up here to the Marine Mammal Center. She was underweight and not looking good. Her progress has been amazing. She’s very fat now and is almost ready to get back out in the ocean.
Another project I thought of is creating a video journal of a day in the life of a Marine Mammal Center Volunteer. I think these projects are very informative and interesting and help show the importance of working there as well as showing anyone what they could be accomplishing in just one day of work.
In the beginning of my wle I didn’t do much except field trips which I explained in an earlier blog entry and tutoring, which is self explanatory. Other then organizing books and shelves which isn’t very hard and is sorta boring but that’s o.k.. I did that (field trips and tutoring) for the first two times before Ramona left and I didn’t know what I would be doing or I would fail so hard since I didn’t have her to rely on, but actually I’m doing better, maybe because I don’t have anybody to hide behind, who knows. I am still doing field trips and tutoring but usually I am the only one doing production (lately) and I don’t mind I sorta like it because then I can do everything myself and I don’t have to bicker with anybody over how to work the copy machine or anything, also there have either been an influx of tutors or a decrease in kiddies because I haven’t been doing much tutoring. I’ve been doing a lot of inventory for the pirate store, little things for Jory like making his calendar and getting coffee, real intern stuff. I actually didn’t start thinking about my project until like two “sessions” ago but I already knew what I wanted to do. My (jory’s) first idea got shot down by KC, that idea was to do an oral history/report and apparently we have to do one of those anyways. I didn’t want to make a powerpoint because a.) powerpoint makes me want to kill myself and b.) I want to do something different c.) I want to do something that I haven’t done at an exhibition before and that the parents won’t fall asleep (not that they would I am speaking from experience). Being at 826 n all I wanted to make a book but not like a huge book. Something small with a little bit of everything. There will be an introduction to the wle and this whole project, an oral history (I’ve already set up my interviews), a essay on my day as typist, a species to the kids that come in for tutoring and tipes for tutoring (basic for anybody that’s a drop-in) a story that me and Ramona wrote the first day we were there its like 4 sentences but its my memoir to her. I’m sure I will include more but so far that’s all I have. I am genuinely excited for this and I know I won’t be saying that come crunch time but hopefully I won’t let that happen because I will pace myself and not get stressed and blame it on everybody.
Well what i have been doing so far is working with the kids with math, language Arts, and some history. They have been learning how to do addition in the 3 digit manner. They have been having a few problems when it comes to doing it so thats when i come in to help them, they have learned so much not only by me being there but just by them being focused and they really seem to get the focus that they really need when im there and that makes me feel really good. In Language Arts there learning how to read books and so they are actually learning that at a very rapid speed. They are learning so fast that they are actually teaching me things also so its like a win win situation. But i am actually learning so much from these kids and im learning a whole lot about myself. And in History there learing a little about American History but nothing to major.... yet!!!. But other than helping the kids with work and things i also do some other things around the school like sometimes i help other teachers and the principal and many other things. Most of the time when im not helping the children im like a counselor and a conflict manager. As you already know with any place full of children there is always going to be a problem and thats when i come in. I have not broken up so many fights between little children like i have been doing in all my life. Theres been times when i was hit and i felt like being a kid and just hitting them back but then i know i cant do that so what i do is whenever there are other children fighting together when i take them seperately i talk to them and i tell them that thats not right and that they shouldnt do that and then i kind of go into this little lecture. The good thing about this is that they actually listen to me and then that gives me a big feeling of accomplishment. This work has been showing me how the work life is and how in working with kids your not just teaching them there teaching you also. The work that i do helps the teachers and other staff because i kind of give them a break and i help make it easier for the teachers and staff when i help with work, and with the conflict that the kids are going through. It feels good to hear the kids and the teachers and staff say you are doing a great job and i cant wait to see you next wednesday. Im actually going to miss that when we have to start going back to school on wednesday i feel like i have built some great relationships with the teachers, staff and kds. My plan for my WLE project is to do a math activity with the class wivh will have 3 digit addition and a little multipulcation, then i will be doing a comparison info packet which is going to have the new curriculum of the school since it became a dream school and how the children have changed the rules the expectations etc.
Lately I've been spending a lot of time archiving files and backing them up. I've been making a lot of dvds which hold a lot of the work that Marc has done, and also organizing them so it's easier for him to find his work.
Whenever there is a photoshoot I help out a lot. I spend most of my time setting up lights and such, moving light sources, setting up models, and even sometimes taking pictures. This is helpful because it allows things to be a lot more fluid and theres a lot time when he has to stop and set something up.
My project is probably going to consist of me showing how I went about archiving and backing up files. I'm also taking pictures of me working on the set with Marc and his assistant to show how I helped out in this way because it would be hard to bring the equipment to the exhibition to show people how this was helpful.
I'm also going to have Marc look at some pictures that I took at the community service day with the lower division at Herons Head park. Even though he's taught me a lot about photography, he's going to help me use the skills I've learned to make the photos better for use in the presentation and the yearbook.
Lately I've been spending a lot of time archiving files and backing them up. I've been making a lot of dvds which hold a lot of the work that Marc has done, and also organizing them so it's easier for him to find his work.
Whenever there is a photoshoot I help out a lot. I spend most of my time setting up lights and such, moving light sources, setting up models, and even sometimes taking pictures. This is helpful because it allows things to be a lot more fluid and theres a lot time when he has to stop and set something up.
My project is probably going to consist of me showing how I went about archiving and backing up files. I'm also taking pictures of me working on the set with Marc and his assistant to show how I helped out in this way because it would be hard to bring the equipment to the exhibition to show people how this was helpful.
I'm also going to have Marc look at some pictures that I took at the community service day with the lower division at Herons Head park. Even though he's taught me a lot about photography, he's going to help me use the skills I've learned to make the photos better for use in the presentation and the yearbook.
This week I went to my workplace internship on time, the teacher was collecting home works from students and I helped him collecting them. Then the kids had to take the standardize test, and it was the math subject, and my mentor told me to find something else to do other than helping them because I’m not suppose to help them or tell them the answers. So I started looking through their books, and I found the fractions section because students been having trouble understanding how to add and subtract fraction. I found out that it was so complicated and I understood why they are having problems with fraction. So that actually supports my whole idea about teaching the kids about fractions. After the kids finished the test, my mentor started teaching a lesson about geometry, and they were working with squares and triangles. And Students had a class work assignment and I started helping kids with their work, and answering questions. After the class work assignment, students were tired and excited to go outside to the yard and play. They went out to the yard for recess, and I played basketball with some group of kids, and some kids started talking to me and telling me about their personal life (like their boyfriends/girlfriends). After recess went back to class, students switched classes, and the 4th graders came in the classroom, and as usual I took the 3 kids that I always work with to the other classroom, and helped them with assignment they had to do. By the time we finished the work, the bell rang and we all had lunch, and then we played basketball again. After lunch, we had a social studies, and that was the end of the day.
iv'e been doing the usual thing at my internship, helping kids with whatever they need help with. Assiting the other kids in "power-hour"(an hour of homework a day) and cleaning up around the room when its empty(which is rare). i found out that my mentor Jason is leaving the Boys & Girls club due to the lack of money he is getting paid(not to mention he was woriking part time) so it turned out that i would have to find a new internship or thats what i thought. so i felt as if my whole project for the exhibition was ruined.
The thing was that i didnt know what my final project was going to be. i have ideas of creating a tutoral of how to make a beat, but i wouuld need a keyboard and the software that i used which would be fairly impossible. so as of right now i dont have any ideas for my final project so i think im currently behind everybody else. If my mentor leaves that means that i wouuld have no access to the recording studio which means that i wont be able to have anything to show after the WLE expirence is done with, whuich means i will fail. Things are going bad
My job description is to be the person that gets any and everything for the Doctors, Nurses, and Patients in the Cath Lab Department. To also comfort patients before they go in to surgery; to make sure that the Cath Lab Holding Room space is clean, and to also make sure that all the crash cart were fully stocked. I feel that the work I do and remaining positive can really boost patients successful recovery. I mean just putting a smile on and making the each and every patient feel like they are really important and that you care about their health and well being, can improve the worlds status of stress and depression.
For my WLE project I plan on displaying a science fair board. That will sort of be my digital piece for my project. It will include: my experiences, what the Cath Lab and Dietary are all about, and describe some simple ways of taking care of your body.
Peace Out Mizz Snoopy
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