Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Blog #2 2008 (350 word Minimum)
How did your preconceptions of your WLE match up with your actual experience on Wednesday? What most struck you about the professional environment in which you are working? What surprised you? If you are still setting up a WLE, then post a blog that details recent developments in your search.
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Wow! I never thought of seeing this blog again until I found it in my bookmarks.
Hi, KC!! I miss having you as a teacher. ]:
Hi Juniors!! Have fun with internship!!
today, which was the first day that i worked at my "workplace learning experience", was pretty mellow. before i went in, i felt that i was going to have to do a lot of things. i never thought about having to get used to the daily things that kids do, for example, going into circle time or having them sing to songs and even learning while listening to them. it wasn't like my preschool because we had a lot of academic work. but maybe since this was the first day that i went there, i wasn't acknowledged with what they do everyday yet. today, mostly what they did was have circle time where they sang, played instruments, and named the dates and days of the week for the month of january. it was actually pretty interesting because i didnt know that kids at the age of 4-5 would know so much about their surroundings. it really shocked me by how much they knew because when i was around that age, i dont think i knew that much. maybe it depended on the different preschools that kids attended and how the teachers were. when i first got to the preschool today, i was struck on the fact that kids at the age of 4-5 actually were so attached to adults. once they cling to you, its very hard to get them back to playing with their friends. its like if one of them come, it attracts the other kids to come along to and pretty soon, you would be surrounded by like 10 kids. its pretty amazing how one kid can easily influence another kid by the actions that they take. its like a chain reaction basically and once that happens, you know that you won't be moving anywhere for a while until the teachers tell them to go back to what they were playing. today, i guess was a day for me to get used to everything that the kids do, like the daily routines from the start of the day where the kids play until its class time until the end of the day until i'm there when they are having nap-time. i feel that this internship is going to give me a lot of thoughts about the future for if i want to be an educator or not because of the experience that i am going through right now.
When I got my my internship today, I didn't think that my working environment was going to be a mellow and calm ofice. I thought it was going to be a crazy office with a lot of filing and tlaking to clients that donate. I didn't realize that all I was going to do today was sort mail that were from the teachers that sent Thank you letters, pictures, and recits. I was organizing mail while talking to the two workers in the office, which were Kelly and Becky. The most surprising part of my professional environment was how free and gentle everyone is at the office. I didn't know that I'll be having conversations about college and what I wanted to do in my life. I thought office workers were more strict and didn't like to talk, but at Donor's choose, it was a whole different story. Everyone was nice and very talkative. We also had music on while we worked. I was surprised by my mentors that were working that day. Everyone is so young. Kelly, who is probably going to be my mentor, just graduated from Cow Poly. So, she is also new like I was. Becky is a really good public speaker. She got Intel to donate $25,000 to Donor's Choose while I was working. What also surprised me was how Becky celebrated after getting the comframation from Intel. She was cheering and yelling so loud it was surprising. IT was like she was still a kid. I never knew office work in an orgaization would be anything like I experienced today. I was also surprised by how kind everyone is and how caring all the workers are at the office. I was offered chocolate and a lot of guidance by my mentors. I wonder if all office firms is like the one I went to today, but I highly doubt it since this one is non-profit and they don't really have a deadline. I was really surprised by how busy an office can get too. Two of the four staff personales were gone to a meeting. Becky is going to be gone next week as well because she's going to be at lost of meetings throughout the year. She's going to have a baby soon so she will be leaving soon. Even though offices are suppose to be organized and everyone is suppose to be informed, a lot of the time, people are not like today about my work schedule. All the staff has to work out a good time for me before I get an offical work time.
I absolutely loved my first day. I didn't think I was going to be trusted with doing anything real on the first day until they got to know me, didn't think I'd do much at all besides maybe sort screws or organize parts or something. Instead the first thing I helped do was build a computer for use as a music server for the office, and then I helped strip 17 computers that were set for recycling of their useful parts, and then stack them up to be recycled. The work environment was perfect in my opinion, not too incredibly tight or suit like, more relaxed where everybody knows and is comfortable talking to each other. I actually showed up in a black collar shirt, taking KC's advice to make a nice impression, and just ended up looking stupid since they were all in sweat shirts or t-shirts going about their work. Overall I found my first day fun and on perfect track toward what I wanted to do at the job site, I believe I will enjoy the rest of it a lot.
I have to say I had a pretty laid back day at my WLE today. As a first day, it was nice to not have so much pressure or stress, since I was still getting the hang of things. I expected that my relationships with my co-workers would be great, seeing as how I have known them for a long time. After growing up in the church and now working alongside some of the people who cared for me and taught me at a very young age, it makes it all the more exciting to be working with such an amazing group of people. As soon as I got to my WLE, we jumped right in. I didn’t have to introduce myself as a member of the church, but I had to introduce myself as someone who was now interning there, ready to learn what goes on behind the scenes of BCC’s Multimedia.
My mentor, along with some people from the creative technology crew sat down to talk about what goes on weekly at Bethel, and they told me about creating podcasts of Sunday morning sermons and how it has to be linked to the website for people to subscribe to. Then there are the bulletins that need to be updated with the current week’s information, printed, cut, and assembled for Sunday church services. There are also the projection slides to be created, which need to portray whatever the pastor is speaking about. In our meeting, we also discussed some of the ongoing projects, such as the development of the new website, possible video projects we wanted to work on, and the construction of a multimedia room which would be used for green-screening, audio recording, filming, photography, etc. I was super excited to hear that there is a lot of meaningful work I will be doing for the next few months.
What struck me most about the environment was how excited people were to have me in the office. People would walk over to my desk and ask me what I was working on and what ideas I had for Bethel’s Multimedia Department. They even asked me to revise some of their work. In an hour, I was able to redesign the youth bulletin page, providing two new solid options for the people who oversee bulletin layouts.
I am still getting used to the fact that we don’t have to come to school on Wednesdays. Going to my WLE today made me realize how structured a day at school is compared to what a day in the office looks like for me. It allows me more room to create my own schedule, and through this, I know I will learn time management skills. I will have to prioritize my responsibilities so that I can get as much work done as possible. Last thoughts: I LOVE MY WLE!!
Today was my first day in the WLE program. It definitely did not go according to plan, but ended up being pretty fun and i think im going to end up liking it alot. I completely screwed up my getting to Pat's home studio, which is at 3434 22nd. Somewhere along the journey i decided that it was at 3434 mission street. so i ended up walking all over the mission and finding out that i was at the wrong place. so i walked back there, rang on the doorbell and realized that i was working in his actual home. He works in a converted bedroom with his computer, another desk, and a bunch of catalogues and whatnot. so we loaded all the neccesary programs and all that onto my computer so that i could start designing stuff right away.we decided that i would start off designing sex pistols t-shirts, since those are the easiest as they have lots of spltter and theyre intentionally kind of janky looking. So he explained the basics of what i would need to know to design, and i started. I realized that it is a lot harder to do what he does than i previously thought it would be. My photoshop skills are nowhere near as good as i thought they were. I'm going to be working to improve that during the time im not at his studio so that i can make the most of my time there. I am excited to go again next week.
well before i started working at my WLE i thought that i would be working constantly. This was some what true at work I had to run an eron i enjoyed going to office max for my job i was told to buy some objects with the companies petti cash, this was my first time ever using petti cash i think i handled it quite well.
When the employees come to children's village they come to work and i respect them for taking their job's so serious. By them demonstrating this it let me know how serious i must be to succeed in a real work place. I was surprised how much fun everyone was having i guess this was because i was sick and was able to truly have fun. Every employee had positive energy it was a great day to work at children's village. Next time I go to my WLE i plan on not being sick and once this cold is gone i think i will excel even higher in my work place. Even though I was sick i still had a great time at my site. I'm so glad Molly is my mentor!!!!
Well before I got there I expected to walk right in and take the elevator to the second floor, but reality check I had to go through security check and the line was out of the door. When I got up to the second floor I was early so I just waited in the hallway. Before I walked in the room I thought it was just going to be one big office, but it wasn't it was like a whole other building inside a building that you could easily get lost in. I know it sounds confusing I am actually confusing myself lol. Also before I got there I just thought I was having an interview and coming back next week but to my surprise I started working right then and there. The thing that most struck me about the workplace learning experience is that you have to remember a whole lot of stuff to get the work completed. It was kind of confusing at first but it wasn't hard it was easy once I actually wrote all of the terms and definitions down. Something that surprised me is that I actually got the work done and remembered where the record room was when my mentor sent me up there to do some work. When I left the record room I actually got lost finding my way out and it took me like 5 whole minutes to find my way out. But overall the experience was great for the first day. I enjoyed the work, the new things I learned and the people there.... I’m looking forward to going back next Wednesday and all the other Wednesdays to come. I hope I learn a lot more and I hope that by working on the computer that typing gets better because my mentor says I need to work on my typing any way.
This is Isis,
When i thought about howmy intern would be like, chaotic came to mind. Not a bad chaotic, a good one(if thats possible). I expected more children, and more teachers. I expected older teachers, and a lot of stuck up people(no lie). I was happy that it was the total opposite(except for the whole positive chaotic thing). I thought it was going to be a little uncomfortable for the children to adapt to my presence. When i had walked in there, i was able to introduce myelf o all of the children and they easily accepted me into C5. I thoguht the children woldnt talk to me because im a stranger, but when i arrived, i first began to draw with the kids. I tried to make little conversation witht he chilren so that they can feel comfortable with talking to me. I thought my first day would be a lot of me looking and not actually being interactive with the kids but i was able to do everything that the actual teachers. I was treated like a regular staff at C5,and that made it easier for me to fit in.
The kids struck me the most. I am used to seeing my sister which is the same age as the children i work with at C5, and it was like dealing with 25 cones of my little sister. They were very manorable and respectful. I thought that i was going to hve to act realy professional but they have a pretty open minded attitude and they are just as outgoing as iam. WHat surprised me was the title that they gave me interning at C5. I thought they would look at me as an intern, but i expained to them, that it just wasnt an intern, it was more. It was an experience that affected my career decision in the future. Overall, my day was really fun. I actually didnt want to leave. I really enjoyed being with the kids and i realized that this is something that i can see myself dong in the future.
The first day of my Work place learning experience was pretty exiting at the beginning but towards the end it got a little boring. When I got there I talked to the other two people in the office for a little bit because my mentor was a little late. I did not expect him to be late but because of the oil spill on highway 101 he was. Once he got there we jumped right in. One of the other people in the office had to finish some recording so I had my first recording session, that was really cool to get to see my mentor doing what I want to learn how to do. He is really good at it and makes it look really easy. Right after the session finished we were going to go the lumber yard and get some wood to finish making some sound proofing panels for the other booth in the studio that is not quite done yet. But before we had a chance to my mentor had a call from his wife who was going to the hospital so he had to go. I did not expect anything like that to happen at all. After that I just did boring work on the computer backing up files for the graphic design portion of the studio. This is work that I used to do when I worked for my father and I really hate it. I know that I only did it because my mentor was gone and there was not much there to do without him. I really enjoy the studio, the people there are really laid back and I seem to have a lot in common with them. I got to know them pretty well because I spent most of my day with them. What surprised me the most was how friendly everyone at the studio was, right away I got to talking to them when I had only met them once before. They seemed really interested in CAT and what our school did, I like the environment there a lot and am exited to have a more typical day at the studio next week.
Well, for my first day at the WLE site, it was pretty chill. I got work that is actually beneficial and somewhat time consuming. I sat in on two meetings, and met practically everyone. They had a cube already set up for me with my own computer. I got set up with a company email and my own phone line. Mostly I was doing photo searches for images that were relevant to the articles on the sites. This is a simple job but is really time consuming since you can’t use just any old photo. One meeting was going over with the boss what were some of the projects that were upcoming, bugs in the system, and design decisions. I arrived an hour before I needed to, and I felt overdressed. I was wearing my button down green shirt with the black crows on it, which is pretty casual. But compared to some of the coders who had t-shirts with emoticons on them and no shoes on, I was grossly overdressed even though I wasn’t. I don’t think I’ll ever really have to wear super corporate wear. Although this does remind me that I don’t have any slacks that fit me, or really any button down shirts that fit either. In the future it’ll all be pretty casual. I already have an idea of what my final project might be. One of the major things that was discussed in the meeting was having hundreds of customizable templates for changing how pages looked when you were a registered user with Care2. Members would be able to choose from many different categories ranging from sports, to seasons, to almost anything. This would be a project incorporating the graphic design team, and the engineers (coders). I would be able to learn parts of both processes throughout it. I could design my own templates that would be a younger person’s style, and then I can go and write the script for use on the web. Both of these are major parts of working inside a functioning web company. Although things could change.
my experience on wensday was something completely new! im at a school but its not a school. the kids kind of run the place. they get to do whatever they want and to me thats crazy but its fun. they arent really told what to do unless they do something wrong. they do alot of games and paint so its an incredible place for kids in the ranges from 3-8 i would say. its fun working with ther kids because all of the kids are very bright and smart. something that struck me was that how freely the kids run around in this school and how the parents get to connect with their kids. i think it is something good when you see the parents with their kids everyday making connections with their kids that if they didnt have this they wouldnt have that connection with their kids and this is something cool.
I have previously volunteered at the preschool over the summer a few years back so I had an idea about what the environment would be like. However, while in the summer there were many teen helpers, on Wednesday I am the only person my age there. I wondered about whether I would be treated like and equal by the adults and if the kids would give me any respect. I wanted to be treated like a respected adult and I thought the kids were going to be crazy.
I wouldn’t call the environment professional in the sense of an office building. However the way that the school is operated it is obvious that the adults got things under control. It is like controlled chaos. Because there are 4 different age groups and it is a small space they all have to do the same things at different times. When one class is eating lunch the other is napping, when ones outside the other is learning about dinosaurs. Also the teachers always have the school under control. There are rules and regulations that the workers and kids both respect and implement.
What surprised me is that at Pacific Primary there is always some small task that needs doing for the cycle to run smoothly. They always need me to get one thing from one room and take to the other room. Messes that need cleaning, snakes to be made, activities that need to be set up, etc. I was also surprised how sore and tired I felt after. Working with kids that young and active is a workout. Also, it is amazing how quick the kids get attached to you. A day for a kid is like month for an adult. They have no perception of time. So when you play with them for a day they treat you like they have known you for their whole life. Working there I fell like a kid again. I think every kid should get to experience pre-school. You have a definite advantage entering the first grade.
Recently I have been searching for a WLE and it has been really hard finding the right one. I have gone from city to city on Google looking for bakeries and have found so many bakeries but I have had one in mind the whole time but it seems that KC wants me to do it in the city but the one I’m interested in is in San Mateo by my house. But I called on Wednesday and I the woman I talked to said she would like me to do my WLE there, with her. In the past couple of weeks I have been looking and looking for the one bakery that would actually really want me there with them learning what they do everyday and learning about the hard times they go through with low customers and the good times with many customers. I want to not only be somewhere close to home but at a good small town bakery, somewhere that it almost feels like family, and talk about family and be happy to get to see and work with every Wednesday. The place I have found for my WLE finally is a place in down town San Mateo close by my house and is a cute like hole in the wall bakery. Although Kathy(the owner) is famous and knows people such as Shakira, Joe Montana and is involved in many social events around the bay area and in her community she isn’t to well known in some city’s. She runs a small business called “Kathy’s Kreative Kakes” on B Street, which is a very well known street in down town San Mateo, but because she isn’t located in the center of down town she is not bothered by the heavy traffic, and loud noises which makes her bakery unique in the way that it’s calm other than other bakeries that get wild with up to 10 people working in one space, she only has 4 others that work with her. I like that I will be working there and I can imagine me getting a great experience there.
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