Blog Entry #1- 500 word minimum- Be specific and detailed
You have now moved through the process of considering and preparing for a Workplace Learning Experience. Take some time to reflect upon and thoroughly respond to the following prompts
What has been most helpful in finding a WLE placement? Be specific. What has not helped in finding a WLE? Are you excited about starting your WLE on January 30th, why or why not? What has been most frustrating during this process?
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I believe that the most helpful thing that has helped me in finding my WLE has been all of the time in class that we have been given to research, also that I already knew mostly what I wanted to do, and one of my friends had worked at the place I plan to work at, so I knew where I could work as well. Due to my previous knowledge on the subject about what I thought I was going to do, it was pretty simple to find other related jobs that I could set up as backups for the one that I really wanted to do. Not much has hindered my finding of a WLE, I guess that the thing that is delaying me the most is that my first choice wants me to come in to the actual store where I would work in order to apply for it, and they won't do it over the phone. I don't know why they operate like this but I guess I'll see when I go in there today. As for being excited, I guess that I am, I'm actually a little nervous, I've never been in a professional work space where I'm actually relied upon to help out. It should be an interesting and rewarding experience however, and so I guess I am excited, but I'll be more excited when I'm on my way there in the morning for my first day. The most frustrating thing for me has been not really knowing what I wanted to do at first. Of course I figured it out and so now my frustration is gone. Researching was kind of frustrating since nobodies name is posted on the websites I was looking up as possible WLE's so I didn't have the opprotunity to ask for any specific person or know who I might be working under during the months that we do it. I think that this should be a great learning experience though since we will be learning a ton about how the real world operates and how we will be expected to act and work when we get out of school.
The most helpful thing that I've done to help myself find my internship was me writing down the things I was interested in. Then after I wrote down the things that i was interested in I searched for them on the internet the website I went to, to do this search was Google. I chose this website because I know Google is the best search website. After I searched for what I was interested in I checked the websites Google brought up to find out what the location's of the internships where. Another helpful thing was having my Advisor KC Jones help me figure out what internships would be best for me considering my interests and how my performance there would be affected due to the location and what time I would be starting. One thing that didn't help me with this process was doing information sheets about my internship this didn't help me because I already had all of my internship's information, this made the information sheets useless. I am excited about starting my WLE because I think I'm going to have a good time and it would be interesting for me to see how a childcare is really ran. The most frustrating thing during this process was doing all these information sheets and having to stay inside with my advisory.
I think that what was really helpful for me was that I already had a lot of connections to companies and had a general idea. I started off not really knowing what I wanted to do, save for that I wanted to work with a business. And now I'm working with an internet business. I don't really feel that I needed much help from KC, I had set up a lot of stuff on my own. I guess his constant nagging moved me along a little faster. There wasn't really anything that hindered me in my search for a WLE. I had my connection and my mom had been bugging me since September. I am hella excited about starting my WLE. I want to learn how to work inside a larger company and Care2 is a really fun looking business. And a bonus; Care2 is located right next to EA Games and they have an awesome cafeteria. I am interested and will probably be working pretty fast on the first day. And as for what was frustrating, KC Jones can be very frustrating without even trying. I was on top of things, and the whole class is ahead of the others, but he was still bugging me.
The most helpful thing for me through this whole process has been my mother. I told her about the worksite learning experience program at the beginning of the year, and asked her if she could ask all of her friends if they needed interns. She provided me with a few options, and the one that I wanted fell through because her friend that runs a recording studio didn't work during the hours that I would need to be working. She had another friend named Pat who designs band merchandise. I met with him on thanksgiving and he showed me what he did and it looked cool and he was available during the day on Wednesdays, so I decided to go with him. Nothing much that I’ve done in academic seminar has helped me to find an internship, although that was because I already had an internship ready before we even talked about it. It may help me next year when I have to find another one. I am pretty excited about going to work with Pat on Wednesdays. He is a cool guy and the work that I will be doing is going to be pretty fun. I am going to be using Photoshop to design band merchandise like t-shirts, hoodies, hats, belt buckles, and a lot of other stuff. The bands that I’ll be designing for are really big. If I was to have one of my designs accepted, they could be sold in stores and at concerts for the bands. I would be walking around the street, and I’d see someone wearing one of my designs and feel a sense of pride. Pat has worked with bands like Iron Maiden, Ice Cube, Queens of the Stone Age, The Ramones, The Spice Girls, Nirvana, and many others. I have not been frustrated by much except for KC. He made me do a couple assignments that did nothing to aid my process. Overall, he has been a positive asset and I am thankful that he is my advisor.
I think that KC Jones (thats you),have been the biggest help. Having KC as a mentor to guide us through a successful process of WLE search. The fact that KC has a lot of resources from being an Academic Seminar advisor last year, makes t bennificial to us. The different assignments that we have done,helped me to decide what career choice i wanted to gain experience in. I was introduced to the WLE, thinking about one career choice and that was Early Childhood Development. The assignments helped me to explore other options,and expand my mind to think deeper about what i want to do.
I listed the different career choices that might interest me, and researched. Another helpful resorcce was the internet. Specifically, the most used website was Google.com. I was able toresearch any of my interests.
One thing i didnt find helpful was Craigs List. It didnt really give me a lot of options that suported my interest. Other than that, nothing really comes to mind in terms of something not being helpful.
I am very excited to have my first experience with WLE. I cant wait to be able to interact with the children as well as get allthe information in order to obtain my goal. I think it will be a great experience for me, to see if this will stillbe something i am interested in when i go to college. I was very nervous to talk the peopel at the jobs,but now i feel more comfortable and i hope that i have a lot to offer for this job.
Idont think anything frustraited me. I was really anxious to do internships or...Work Place Learning Experience. I am looking foward to January 30th and i hope i will make both of my mentors proud.
i love WLE
The most helpful thing in finding a WLE was my father. It was very simple for me to find a WLE I wanted to do. At the time when I started thinking about WLE, which was at the beginning of the year, my dads old employee had just opened a recording studio. This is something I have always been interested in and have previous knowledge in. I started talking to him about working for him on Wednesdays and he said he could use the help because his company was just starting out and they need as much help as they could. It was easy for me to stay in contact with him and to call him and explain to him the details of exactly what we were going to do because I already knew him. I think that having previous connections in things you want to do for your WLE is going to make the process a lot easier for everybody. I think the thing was least helpful in finding a WLE was doing a lot of the worksheets in academic seminar. The phone script was something that I filled out after I had already made my phone call and talked to my mentor. I felt that it was a waste of time that could have been spent on doing something more productive. The sheet that we filled out the different types of things we want to do I also felt was very pointless. I knew what I wanted to do and did not need to fill out that sheet, that time could have also been used for calling my mentor and finalizing my internship. I do however understand that these things are very helpful to other students that did not have the luck that I did in having connections in what I wanted to do. I also understand that some students had no idea what they wanted to do and needed that sheet to help them out. I am exited and not exited about starting my WLE at the same time. I am exited to be in a recording studio and to be in a real work place learning experience but I am also extremely nervous. I don’t know exactly why I am nervous but I think it might have something to do with working with people I don’t know. All of my other jobs I have know people when I was working with them, now I only know my mentor. I am exited for the new experience though. The most frustrating part of this entire project was doing a bunch of the pointless worksheets when I had already found my internship. Overall I can’t wait to see what happens in my new workplace learning experience.
K.C. Jones has been the most helpful in my finding a work place learning experience placement. At first I just figured I would take the easiest route and work at a preschool that I have already volunteered at. I wasn’t interested in actually researching a job that would help me after school. A week into the researching process K.C. Jones was helping a couple students find an internship and he was reading out some possible choices. He mentioned that there was a gardening internship and I was immediately interested and vocalize that to him. However through talking to Jessica wells I found out that it would be too dangerous to intern there during this season because it is too dangerous for some one under eighteen. Then I was back to square one and I went back to trying to get the internship at my neighborhood preschool. I kept on delaying my visit to the preschool because I was nervous that they would say no and that it would be to late to find one on my own and be assigned to a teacher at City Arts and Technology. I was walking home and was awaiting a nice comfy chair and high definition television when my mom called and said she was on her way home. That morning I told her I would stop by after school. Now I had to go. So she walked me there and gave be encouragement and I was ready to talk to Bellanne, the woman in charge of the preschool. She was excited to see me and called me into her office. Her joy for seeing me gave me some much need confidence and I was ready to tell her about how my school makes us
get an internship for juniors and that I immediately thought of Pacific Primary. She told me she would love to have me there on Wednesdays and asked me what hours I would like.
I am very excited to start there next week and sleep in. It is only a block away from my house and she told me that she has about a hundred jobs for me.
The most frustrating thing for me is that whenever I try to call her and confirm the internship with K.C. she is never at her office or she is in a meeting.
I believe that the most helpful thing that we did to find a WLE placement was the brainstorm worksheet because I had no idea what I wanted do in the beginning except something that had to do with math. All I that I knew was that I wanted to do something that had to do with math. Then I had a little talk with Ms. Lundin and KC that narrowed down my interests to what I wanted to do. I researched a lot of different accounting and business firms that could have been a possible placement for me to do my WLE, which was really helpful because I had a lot of back up just in case I get rejected from my first choice. And not surprisingly, I was rejected from all of my first choice placements and then got rejected from all my backups as well. At least I had a backup plan even though it did not really help that much. Another helpful thing that really helped me was the phone scripts because I totally did not know how to talk to a professional worker. I would have not gotten to the point at all without the phone script. It has helped me get over my nervousness of talking to other business people about getting a job or internship. This will be a valuable lesson that I will need to use in the future. The most unhelpful thing that I experienced was creating our resumes because we hardly got any help except for the sheet of paper that had sample resumes that really did not help. I did not know how to combine the two things together to make a good resume for myself. I have mixed feelings about January 30 so I am not really excited to start my WLE on Wednesday because I have not been officially confirmed for my internship so I have a possibility of staying with KC all day looking for an internship. I don't even know where my internship is at all which is not encouraging me to get motivated for WLE just yet. The most cantankerous part of this process was making a good cover letter and resume because it was so hard to make my resume perfect and get KC's approval before I get to send my e-mail to my contact. Another frustrating part of this process was when I was looking up and calling a lot of different companies because I was not at all happy when I was being rejected and rejected from all the accounting offices that I called. It got really frustrating when I had no more contacts because I called and got rejected from every one of my contacts that I researched. Lastly, the stress that comes with the process of just finding a WLE is over whelming. KC is always on your back putting a lot of pressure for you to find your WLE quickly. Then I had a problem with getting a backup, but I guess it's a good thing we had a list for us to find backups that just in case we didn't find any placement.
the most helpful thing that helped me find my WLE placement was probably having computers in hand and the class time to everything. i think that without these helpful things, nothing wouldve went the way i wanted it to like getting my WLE placement confirmed or finding some preschools that i couldve interned at even though i didnt get into the places that i first wanted to get into. i also feel that my friends has helped out a lot because they told me possible places that i could work at and without them telling me the places that i can work at, i would still be without an WLE placement at the moment. for me, staying calm was also a good factor in helping me get a WLE because some of the people in the class were really stressed out about getting a placement before the expected date that KC wanted us to have it so it was sometimes really frustrating. mostly, i feel that having KC helped me out a whole bunch because of the past experience that he had last year with the seniors so because of that, we were ahead of the other classes. things that didnt work out for finding a WLE was probably doing a phone script because i didnt know what to do in the beginning because i never called in to a place to ask for a job before. most of my past work places i had connections because i know the people in the places that i wanted to work for so that was one thing that was hard for me. i am pretty excited for working on my first day on jan 30th because this would actually be the first time i am working at a real job placement so im pretty anxious to get started. when i first started doing this WLE project thing, i wanted to intern at a pharmacy place so i started to research a lot about the pharmacy placces that i can go to. after doing all of that research, i was about ready to call in to ask about a possible intern place, but when i told my mom about this internship for each weds, she told me that i definately couldnt work in a pharmacy because of the seriousness of being a pharmacist. she knew this because she works at walgreens as a cosmetic advisor so she knew a lot about the departments at her workplace. she told me that no student can work at a pharmacy unless i was studying in pharmacy or if i had a certificate to work at a pharmacy. when i heard this, i was really mad because of all the things that i did already before i knew about this. all the work that i did was useless now so i had to go to my other backup which was working with children. i want to work with children because i want to see how they learn and how they do everything from young age to an older age. so now that i have the internship placement that i have now, i am happy and excited about starting on jan 30th.
The thing that was most helpful in finding a WLE was having enough time to research different places. I knew I had to explore many different options in case most people turned me down. When I discovered that I could search for internships in San Francisco and the Bay Area using specific keywords on Craig’s List (craigslist.org), I was able to find information about internships that were specific to my interests. It was cool because companies who post internship opportunities gave most of the information I needed to find out if I wanted to do my Workplace Learning Experience at that site. I will definitely use that next time I have to look for a part-time job or another internship.
Completing the phone/email script was really helpful in getting a Workplace Learning Experience at my desired site placement. It helped me not only understand what the WLE program is all about, but also assisted in explaining to my potential mentors what is expected of myself and what is expected of them. The phone script, although fashioned for phone calls, was a flexible enough template to be used for emails, as well. It is organized in a manner that is very informative and I felt that the emails I sent out spoke for themselves, and that made me confident.
What did not really help were some of the questions on the WLE Scavenger Hunt, but I guess the point was more to pick out the important information from the over view, so that we understood what was going on.
I am very excited about starting my Workplace Learning Experience in the Bethel Christian Church Multimedia Department. I have grown up in that church, and it is like a second family to me. Although to outside ears, it doesn’t sound very appealing, I am confident that I will receive the guidance I need in learning the specific skills I intend to learn while completeing my WLE. My mentor, Cindy Donis, who is also one of the youth leaders of Ignite Ministries (the youth branch of my church) has set me up with two instructors who will teach me web development skills as I work with them to build a new website for the church, and will also teach me what they know in Final Cut Studio – something I’ve been trying to learn since summer. This is the perfect opportunity for me to finally work behind the scenes of the church I grew up in, while getting professional guidance in learning the skills I need to learn if I want to pursue a career in multimedia.
The most frustrating part of this process has been waiting for people to respond to my emails. Although the emails were easy to write and send out, I would have preferred to call some of the places, so I could actually talk to the people I might be working with. Emails are very easy for people to avoid responding to, while as if someone answer the phone, they can’t just hang up on me, but they can certainly decline, and I would find out much sooner than through email.
well i defently underestmated the seriouseness of this project. i wanted to work more in computer animation at first but not many places do so in san francisco. and the ones that do need college help so i was un able to take those or even really consiter them as an option. so the next one i wanted to do is work with animals so the frist place that poped in to my head was the SPCA and PAWS. as i was calling i almost got the intership but because of laws i couldnt work with the animals or work there at all unless i was eighteen. so both we out of the question. frustrated by being a couple months shy of eighteen KC gave me a list of forsure WLEs as i scaned the paper i chose the SF zoo, California Trout, an small animation company and, as unofending as possble, a gay flim group. with hope that i would get the Zoo i did :). now i am very excited to work there. these past weeks have been very hard on me but i learned to be pation and no matter how many times you argue with KC jones you will never be right.
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what has been most helpful for me finding a WLE placement is the little sheet with all of the available work sites because it had a few schools i would like to do my WLE for because they are close to home and easy commute. what doesn't help in finding the WLE is not being eighteen. not being eighteen is very effective in the worst of ways because if you want to do something that will help you out and you feel that will give you effective learning then you would have to be eighteen. i wanted to work in fostering animals and taking care of animals that were looking to be fostered and the only reason why i couldn't intern there is because im not eighteen. i am not really becasue working with kids can be very stressing because they are always hyper and never seem to calm down. they are also very touchy and like to pull on your clothes which is something im not going to like at all. the only thing that has been most frustrating for me woujld have to be when looking for an intern and you cant get it because of me not being eighteen and that really sucks and majority of the goo and fun interns you have to be eighteen so im going to try and work with little kids in around prescholl of age.
the thing that has been the most helpful in finding a wle was the internet..but what helped the most was the help from the teachers for pussing me to keep looking they never left me alone someone was always looking for me...am i excited about starting a wle umm not really but yea..ill be abl to learn new things new experience... learn how to work like a adult in the real world...the most frustrating would be the computers..imean they did help but other times they was moving too slow taking a lond time to load...and also all the other work that was already needing to be done...finding one that i was intrested in...and also finding one that i am able to get to by muni and be on time...but i look forward to starting soon...
I believe that there's has not really been nothing helpful to me trying to find my WLE. The only thing that I can think of is the list that had all of the contacts on it for the available WLE worksites. This kind of put a load of stress off of my chest. That is because I was stressing trying to find a WLE and trying to focus on my school work at the same time. At first it was a struggle when I started off because I never did anything like this before, having the pressure of trying to get an internship by a certain date. This list was a lifesaver because at the moment in time I didn’t have any clue to where I wanted to intern at. It was also helpful because I seen a couple of them that I was interested in. There was one in specific that I was most interested. The one that I was the most interested in was the District Attorney’s office.
Another resource that I used to try and help me find my WLE was the Internet. I feel that the Internet wasn't that helpful to me. I used it a couple of times but I didn’t get any of my contacts from there but one. The only contact I got from there was a childcare center. I think the most challenging thing for me in using the Internet is that I was confused about what exactly I was supposed to type in to the google search engine. When I wasn’t finding anything on the Internet I think that discouraged me a little and slowed down my process of actually putting in academic time and the effort to look for a WLE that I think that would best suit me.
A person that I feel that has not been that much helpful to me in my search for finding my WLE is my Academic Seminar teacher KC Jones. I feel that when I did ask for help that most of the time I was just ignored and he helped other students that didn't really need the help that were already on the right track. I felt that I was being criticized the whole time just because I still didn’t have an intern ship when like only two other students did. I felt that his criticism was uncalled for. I could have just been mistaken for his actions though, but that’s how I perceived it.
I’m not really excited about starting my WLE. I’m not excited because I don't really have one yet to be excited for. I have an interview though for a WLE at the District Attorney’s office. I’m really excited about that. I wish myself luck and I hope I get it!!! This experience has been a rigorous experience that I wish I never have to go through again. At least next time I will be well prepared.
Let see all the time we’ve been having in class has been helpful I won’t lie but I haven’t been able to find many bakeries and when I end up having a lead they don’t need anyone in other words they are full staff or they don’t want to have to teach anyone anything. I’ve been getting kind of annoyed at the fact that what I want to hasn’t easily available for me to find. I am still in the process of finding my WLE and am looking real hard I have a few good leads and am still in the trying to find something that can fit me stage. While I've been looking for my WLE I didn't think to just pull up different bakeries and write down their number and address to be organized and have a list of different places to call and choose from. But once I started doing that list idea I realized I would just start going to the bakeries introducing myself and telling them what it is I am there to do and why I wanted to be there. Pretty much just go from place to place to have them see me as a person and not just some other voice on the phone that needs to get a school project done. But that I’m someone that actually is interested in being there. I am very excited about first finding a WLE that I am excited to go to every Wednesday and then actually starting it, starting will probably be the best part. The whole process is frustrating since I haven't been able to find my placement. I have been frustrated most of the time but I know once I find my placement I will not have that frustration anymore. I have been hoping to find something close to my house so I don't have to go too far into the city to be at my internship. Although it has been pretty difficult finding a bakery that actually wants an intern, I am hoping that someone will soon want to take me in. I think also that having an advisor like KC Jones has been such a great help to all of us advisees, because he has done this last year and has experience I am glad to have him there to push us through our frustrating times like these and tell us that it’s hard but we will get through it and find an internship.
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