In a 2 page (double-spaced) reflection, write your reflection in a Word Document, using the same file you saved last week on the server.
As teachers have gone for visits to the various workplace sites of students, we have seen students doing work that relates to a bigger picture or larger task that will benefit the workplace or the company.
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 thought about a project, please explain what possibilities exist and which one(s) interest you the most.
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Argent:
Well, I have really no clue as to this whole big picture that is being said. But the work I have been doing has basically been reading to the children, teaching them how to write words neatly, making sure that they clean up after themselves and most of all playing with the kids.
I read to the children by pointing to words that I am reading so that they know what word I am saying and how it is pronounced. I do this slowly so that the kids can catch on and understand how certain words are said.
When I teach the kids how to write it’s very difficult because they are just learning how to write and control their hands. So it is very difficult for them to write neat, but with my coaching they write neat enough so that their scribbles look like letters making words like “key” or “egg.” I teach them by relating letters to shapes or telling them to write very slowly so that they can exercise control and write neater than scribbles.
During lunch I help set up the place mats and I supervise how much the kids eat and make sure the kids drink their milk and eat their food. At the end when their finished eating I make sure that they clean up after themselves because if they don’t start developing habits to clean up after themselves then they may never learn to clean up after themselves and leave their plates or other utensils lying around while their older.
Playing with the kids is one of the highlights while working at my internship, because not only am I playing with them I am also able to ask them questions as to why they do what they do.
I really have no idea how my work relates to the larger whole, nor do I know what this larger whole is. I am just interacting with the children and which I guess is stimulating their brains and allowing them to grow more mature, which may be this picture that is being referenced to.
I have no idea on what to do for the project. I do not want to interrupt any kind of schedule the teachers planned out and I am fresh out of ideas. But I am open to some ideas as to what to do for projects. So if anyone has any ideas give me a holler. I guess a few projects I can do would be teaching the kids how to make a paper airplane, I am not sure if that qualifies for a final project but I can not think of something fun, safe, cool, interesting yet very simple for these kids to do. Least with this airplane idea they can color them or take the planes home and toss them around, but I am not sure if the teachers would like having a bunch of paper planes littering the ground. Well, I’ll ask my mentor about this whole project thing when some stuff blows over. One of the kids in the class died over the weekend, his stomach exploded. I am not sure if I am at liberty to disclose this information but… yeah, he has been busy during break filling out papers and that kind of stuff I dare not approach him and add to his workload.
That’s all there is to report.
-Argent
Germain:
The work I (we) do, is not the most interesting job. What we do is to give our feedbacks on the new programs and find out new ideas of project (brain storming). When our mentor likes our ideas, he asks us to do a Power Point showing what the new project looks like and how it works.
We don’t have any ideas of a possible final project (beside a big brain storming).
Germain
Hanora Buer
Well first I will meet with my mentor at any play within the city. We will then sit their and wait for the different clients to come wither on the bus or in certain vans they have to ride. This will usually take around 1-2 hours. So we will either do some work or just sit around and read. Then we take the cable car to Out Of the Closet a thrift store when they clean up and I help place books on the shelves. This will last until 12 usually. It’s pretty hard work though and makes me really hungry for lunch. We will then go back downtown to the Westfield mall to have lunch and looks around. After that we get on the muni and go to the library. There we go to the deaf center and some clients watch movies or do different work. This is a good part for me because it shows me how much help they really need and I can actually help them with it. I have not actually come up with a final project for my WLE but I have a few ideas. One is to have some of the clients have a special project they want to do and I will help them as best I can to help them all the way. Or I was also thinking to get a bunch of pictures of all the people I worked with and create a big huge collage that really shows how appreciate I was that they let me work with them. One last idea I had was to ask the clients in my group what they think I should do. And then we could all work on it together.
Angelica G: entry # 5
The project that I was assign since the beginning was to work in building a web page, where it would show all the students that are graduating from MSAT and going to college. As the graduation classes increase there will be more students pictures added and their info. This could help parents, teachers, and friends find students going to the same college or just knowing where they are. For this project I am using Flash which I don’t have much experience on, so this is like a challenge to me and also a learning experience. Besides this I am also doing office work such as, ordering supplies for the office, helping make the development packages which contain info about the Envision organization, this packages are pass out to the different foundations for them to know about “us”. My project its helping Envision in the way that they are saving money and also helping one of the workers. So that is all im doing!!!!
Germain:
The work I (we) do, is not the most interesting job. What we do is giving our feedbacks on the new programs and find out new ideas of project (brain storming). When our mentor likes our ideas, he asks us to do a Power Point showing what the new project looks like and how it works. We learn how to research on the web potential persons to contact to start a new contract, or person who can show our ideas to a public. We learn the Personiva’s process to lead a campaign to the public and how the product makes its way through the web.
By now, we have thought about a project. For our WLE final project, we will present a potential campaign for Levis. The idea is that you play a game where you need to catch clothes falling from the sky. Once your shopping bag is full, the Levis/Personiva web site appears and you start to try on the clothes that you got. When you’re done trying the clothes, you choose in what context you want to be: magazine spread, TV show, fashion show… After the process is done you can share it with your friend sending it by email or by putting it on you Myspace page.
John Carreon
I was thinking a film in which i can show of the kids and them just working together and learning things from each other at a young stage. I could also read them a story and try to see if they understand some of the values they learn
Isabel
At my WLE I help out with whatever needs to be done or things that my mentors would prefer not to do themselves. This includes working on excel and filezilla either reorganizing, adding, or deleting names of members of the organization, schools the organization has visited, other organizations similar to ours, places who will give the organization donations, and the like. I call places (mostly food places) and ask for donations. I work on surveymonkey making surveys for our members. I make portfolios of the organization to bring to schools. I helped make raffle tickets for a large family dinner. I call people and remind them of upcoming events. I organize files (not on the computer). And lastly I go to the copy place and make hundreds of copies of many documents. Without me I suppose many things would take them a lot longer to get done so I guess thats how I help them in the bigger picture. For the WLE exhibition I will be discussing what the organization is about and how I contributed to that large family dinner I was talking about. I will be presenting my 'artifacts' (pictures, portfolios, powerpoint...) and describing the purpose of this dinner and how it relates to the organization in general.
-copper-
at my wle, its very laid back. i get to work on my own clothing projects for about two hours. then the last four hours of my work day is spent doing research and samples. i am currently making the stitch lounge basics book. this book will carry different stitching abilities, and how to do them. as well as a sample of what it looks like. having me work on this project, and be responsible for it is helping me manage my time and efforts, as well as supplying my workplace with the things it needs for it customers. i am also currently working on a new peice of clothing. it will be a very nice, flowing evening gown with a spunky twist. the dress is being made for my friend maggie gaster to wear, as she will be my model during my wle exhibition project.
I can’t honestly say proudly when I leave my internship office I feel I am making a difference in the world but I do feel I might have made a difference at my job. Every Wednesday morning I arrive to my corner desk and do standard office paper work, that usually includes photocopying, typing, sending out envelopes, inputting data in excel, and occasionally filing. At my internship at the San Francisco Playhouse Theatre there are generally 3 people, including myself, that work there. This makes it hard no matter where your working but even worse doing it in a fast paced job as theatre. There is always something to be done. At other jobs there might be a high intensity time where there are long nights and a lot of panicking but after a certain point there is a low where there isn’t much pressure. At my internship we don’t have that. Because of the low resources and work staff, extra help is not just encouraged but very much appreciated.
I believe my fresh thinking and extraordinary organizing skills has helped Tara, my mentor very much. Before me she was normally the only one in the office, which as I know now is a big job for just one person.
As I said before I don’t think I changed the world yet but I might have changed the office a little to make it more manageable. I’m sure the appreciate it.
Jasmin Palencia
what I have been doing at the school is what any teacher would do I actually help out leading the lesson plan. Sometimes while the kids are working on their own I grade papers, but I usually sit down with one of the six tables and help them out with what they are working with weather it be math or reading but most of the time they need help with theri english. Its nice working with the kids that spanish was their first language it reminds me of me when I was their age and strugeling to read in english and its fun helping them out how to spell words and how to pronounce them. We go over fractions in math and stories they have read for reading comprehension but right now we mostly go over testing because they took the test this week so we were working on bubbling in the letters so that they could kow how to. For my project I waas thinking of teachin the class something that they would have fun with. I guess I'm going to go over the parts of plant and what food they eat that are plants and what part of the plants they are like the carrot is the root and the celery is the stem and other things like that.
Jasmin Palencia
what I have been doing at the school is what any teacher would do I actually help out leading the lesson plan. Sometimes while the kids are working on their own I grade papers, but I usually sit down with one of the six tables and help them out with what they are working with weather it be math or reading but most of the time they need help with theri english. Its nice working with the kids that spanish was their first language it reminds me of me when I was their age and strugeling to read in english and its fun helping them out how to spell words and how to pronounce them. We go over fractions in math and stories they have read for reading comprehension but right now we mostly go over testing because they took the test this week so we were working on bubbling in the letters so that they could kow how to. For my project I waas thinking of teachin the class something that they would have fun with. I guess I'm going to go over the parts of plant and what food they eat that are plants and what part of the plants they are like the carrot is the root and the celery is the stem and other things like that.
Jessica Wells
Exploratorium/Woodshop
Last week at my internship I learned how to use a new saw in the woodshop. Up to that point I mostly worked with basic drills, nail guns, and other power tools. But this Wednesday they had me under go training on how to use the cold saw (used to cut different metals), which was one of the first pieces of heavy machinery that I’ve used since middle school.
It was nice getting to use something different than what I was familiar with. I smelled like coolant forever, but it was empowering. I also painted the inside of this tornado cylinder with little ventilation, and my head started to hurt. So I took a fiver.
You visited me during my lunch and I got some vegetarian black bean chili. It was mediocre. Not you the chili. In the latter part of the day while ‘explaining’, I decided that it would be cool if I replicated one of the optical illusions in the Mind part of the museum.
I figured I could replicate the exhibit with materials I already have access to, which is a plus. That is what I have planned so far; the hard part is deciding which one to use. They are all kind of hard.
Jasmine Martinez:
The work that I am currently engaged in at my internship workplace that relates to a larger whole of the workplace is I am mainly working on putting the files into the computer and boxing them to be sent to storage, so that if any files are needed for any reason they just need to look into the computer and see where they are being stored. Because I work at the District Attorney’s Office I feel that everything I do relates to a bigger whole because everything has a large significance in what happens there.
I have begun thinking about what I want to do for my internship project. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to do what I wanted because of the environment where I intern. But, I have decided to create a pamphlet for high school students that intern at the DA’s office. This will help my mentor because then she won’t have to go and keep explaining how to do each thing that where assigned to do when new interns come into the office and work. It’s also good for the interns because they have something to look at when they forget how to do something, and its better to have some kind of resource then relaying on the mentor the entire time. I think it will make them more independent and learn to rely on themselves instead of others. I’ve already started working on my project part time while I am at my internship, and for the rest of the time I help out in whatever needs to be done.
Since I have been working at the Mission Science Workshop, I have done things that range from sweeping the floor, to co-teaching whole lessons. I tried to stay busy, but there just wasn’t a lot of work, besides cleaning the space, occasionally helping with the classes and my own project, or part of it.
Some times when I had to clean, I did just that, sweeping and rinsing beakers and things. When I helped with the classes I did little things like helping out with preparing materials, sitting the children down at tables, and a couple times I got up in front of the whole class and taught the full lesson. Then there was my project, I started 2 weeks before everyone else, thinking that ill be able to finish a week or 2 early, and I would have been able to do so if the post wasn’t so screwy, and now im 4 weeks behind. And MSW will be having the same amount of exhibits as they did when I showed up.
-Logan.
Since I have been working at the Mission Science Workshop, I have done things that range from sweeping the floor, to co-teaching whole lessons. I tried to stay busy, but there just wasn’t a lot of work, besides cleaning the space, occasionally helping with the classes and my own project, or part of it.
Some times when I had to clean, I did just that, sweeping and rinsing beakers and things. When I helped with the classes I did little things like helping out with preparing materials, sitting the children down at tables, and a couple times I got up in front of the whole class and taught the full lesson. Then there was my project, I started 2 weeks before everyone else, thinking that ill be able to finish a week or 2 early, and I would have been able to do so if the post wasn’t so screwy, and now im 4 weeks behind. And MSW will be having the same amount of exhibits as they did when I showed up.
-Logan.
lately i have been working on a project that will spread all over the west coast. The san francisco bay area office plans to create hundreds of thank you letters to send to every single person who has helped to fund a proposal within the bay area. these thank you letters consist of a paper frame that has previously been sent out to elementary schools for children to hand decorate and color. these frames are then filled with feedback photos, photos that teachers took of their students using whatever material they recieved. inside these frames are certificates for $50 dollars to spend on Donors Choose and of course the actual thank you letter. these finished letters are finaly placed in hand addressed envelopes to send to the donors. Multiply most of this by about 800 and thats what i did.
-Derick
this week we went to football practice right away and because we had won the last game but they could have did better then what they had did so first they ran laps and did excerises to get warmed up and then we made them do drills with eachother. to get there minds thinking and heads in the game then we split the team up into there grade levels and ran plays with them and then we made both teams play against eachother while we antilized them play and picked who would start in the next game and who want. ya dig. that practice was a our best practice yet and we cant wait until the game
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