What did you learn?
During this project I learned so many new things that have to do with writing. I learned how to make writing stronger yet simple. Another thing I learned was that the less -ing words possible the better your writing will be. Simplicity is the key to great writing! I also learned a lot about the real “world”. Its just easy to say, “I want to do this when I grow up”, but going to internship made me realize that the real world will be hard.
How did you learn it?
Well, the writing techniques I learned it by practicing with my essay for the magazine. I had so many drafts before my final essay, and it helped me by the critiques from my teacher and classmates. In my internship I had a lot of responsibilities that helped me grow as an “adult” relating with professional people made me more aware on how the professional world will look like.
Why is this important?
This is important because It will come in handy later on. In college will have to write lot of essays and I will have the knowledge to write the papers. Going to internship showed me how important it is to relate with professional people, and how to behave in a professional way.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The magazine reflection!
What did you learn?
During this project I learned so many new things that have to do with writing. I learned how to make writing stronger yet simple. Another thing I learned was that the less -ing words possible the better your writing will be. Simplicity is the key to great writing! I also learned a lot about the real “world”. Its just easy to say, “I want to do this when I grow up”, but going to internship made me realize that the real world will be hard.
How did you learn it?
Well, the writing techniques I learned it by practicing with my essay for the magazine. I had so many drafts before my final essay, and it helped me by the critiques from my teacher and classmates. In my internship I had a lot of responsibilities that helped me grow as an “adult” relating with professional people made me more aware on how the professional world will look like.
Why is this important?
This is important because It will come in handy later on. In college will have to write lot of essays and I will have the knowledge to write the papers. Going to internship showed me how important it is to relate with professional people, and how to behave in a professional way.
During this project I learned so many new things that have to do with writing. I learned how to make writing stronger yet simple. Another thing I learned was that the less -ing words possible the better your writing will be. Simplicity is the key to great writing! I also learned a lot about the real “world”. Its just easy to say, “I want to do this when I grow up”, but going to internship made me realize that the real world will be hard.
How did you learn it?
Well, the writing techniques I learned it by practicing with my essay for the magazine. I had so many drafts before my final essay, and it helped me by the critiques from my teacher and classmates. In my internship I had a lot of responsibilities that helped me grow as an “adult” relating with professional people made me more aware on how the professional world will look like.
Why is this important?
This is important because It will come in handy later on. In college will have to write lot of essays and I will have the knowledge to write the papers. Going to internship showed me how important it is to relate with professional people, and how to behave in a professional way.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Magazine Reflection Take DOS!
1. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what improved? How did it get better? Why? I improved in so many things while working in this project. My writing structure improved so much. My writing was not organized and did not make any sense. To me it seems like its perfect, because i wrote it, but when I give it to my peers to critique it I see a lot of organization comments.
2. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what still needs work? What do you think will help you improve? Why? Even thought I'm improving on my organization, I still need to work on it to make it better. This is going to help me improve by getting more critiques. Another thing I still needs wok is my grammar. Something that can make me improve is reading other articles or other peoples writing.
3. Specifically, show us something that improved and describe the path it took to get better. You can quote your article, your drafts, link to evidence, etc. The thing I worked on specifically were my run-on sentence. For example "I am really great full our school has the privilege to have an opportunity to have internships so that we can experience what the real world would be and what the future holds for students." and changed it to " I am very grateful that our school gives us an opportunity to have internships. That way we can experience what the real world will be and what the future holds for students."
4. Describe something specific (or a few things!) that you learned about writing. Something I learned was that the less -ing words possible the better your writing will be. Simplicity is the key to great writing!
2. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what still needs work? What do you think will help you improve? Why? Even thought I'm improving on my organization, I still need to work on it to make it better. This is going to help me improve by getting more critiques. Another thing I still needs wok is my grammar. Something that can make me improve is reading other articles or other peoples writing.
3. Specifically, show us something that improved and describe the path it took to get better. You can quote your article, your drafts, link to evidence, etc. The thing I worked on specifically were my run-on sentence. For example "I am really great full our school has the privilege to have an opportunity to have internships so that we can experience what the real world would be and what the future holds for students." and changed it to " I am very grateful that our school gives us an opportunity to have internships. That way we can experience what the real world will be and what the future holds for students."
4. Describe something specific (or a few things!) that you learned about writing. Something I learned was that the less -ing words possible the better your writing will be. Simplicity is the key to great writing!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Magazine Reflection
1. What went well for you during the process of creating this magazine?
I think that everything went well. I had a lot of critiques from my classmates and teacher, which made it so much better. Another thing that went great was my layout. I thought I wasn’t going to be able to use InDesign, but I did and looks great.
2. What challenges did you face as you moved from an early draft or idea to a final product? One of the challenges that I had was that at first I couldn’t think of what to put in my magazine. I first wanted to use my mentor interview, but thought it was going to be simple. I decided to use my photo essay with a very descriptive introduction.
3. What other examples of work—student and professional—stood out as exemplary and served as a good model for your own work? Something that helped me a lot was looking at magazines. It gave me good ideas for my layout, and gave me ideas for my writing as well. On if the magazines that really helped me was National Geographic and The New Yorker.
I think that everything went well. I had a lot of critiques from my classmates and teacher, which made it so much better. Another thing that went great was my layout. I thought I wasn’t going to be able to use InDesign, but I did and looks great.
2. What challenges did you face as you moved from an early draft or idea to a final product? One of the challenges that I had was that at first I couldn’t think of what to put in my magazine. I first wanted to use my mentor interview, but thought it was going to be simple. I decided to use my photo essay with a very descriptive introduction.
3. What other examples of work—student and professional—stood out as exemplary and served as a good model for your own work? Something that helped me a lot was looking at magazines. It gave me good ideas for my layout, and gave me ideas for my writing as well. On if the magazines that really helped me was National Geographic and The New Yorker.
Monday, April 27, 2009
photo Essay
These past two weeks has been a fantastic experience. I learned things I never would have thought I would ever learn in my life. Throughout this photo essay you will see what I experienced and see all the incredible things that I learned; like filing, inputting data in ETO, and making copies.
After walking out of the office the last day of immersion week all I could see was GREEN! The first week of immersion I got to learn about and work with taxes. I had to make sure the client’s paperwork was in the correct order and checking that the W2s were in the folders. The BEST part was the inputting of data in a program called ETO. ETO is a program where all the people’s personal information goes in the computer after getting their taxes done. After inputting their personal information, the client had to fill out a survey, and I had to input their answers in the computer. I had to do approximately 35 folders in two weeks.
Now that immersion is over, all I do at home is answer the phone now. When my mentor wasn’t in the office, my job was to answer the phone and leave her messages. I hate to call people I don’t know on the phone and calling 45 people I didn’t know was a big challenge. At first I would get really nervous, but after a couple of calls I got the hang of it and couldn’t wait for the phone to ring again. The second week of immersion I had to make 45 calls. I had to remind people that we were going to have an orientation for free computers. By having that experience, my fear went away.
Making copies might look easy BUT it isn’t! Making copies for the first time by myself was a disaster. My mentor asked me to go make some copies of some flyers I made. She asked me to make 240 copies and I accidently pressed 540! I tried to stop the machine by pressing all these buttons and I made it so much worse. I went running to my mentor screaming for help and thankfully she stopped it. I was the most embarrassing thing ever. Who ever thought making copies was going to be so hard?
Something I used that High Tech High Media Arts has taught me was my minimal Photoshop skills. A business that I helped, other than my mentor’s, was the YMCA. I helped make flyers for their activities and a March Calendar. Showing my talents that I have in professional places is something professional adults want to see. As much as we learn from out mentors they can do the same by learning from us, as students, by teaching them things they couldn’t learn when they were I high school. I was so proud of myself when I accomplished what they assigned me to do. I never though I could make a calendar in Photoshop without asking Paul or Jake for help and that felt good.
Getting to work with Alejandra was an honor. I learned so much about her and vise versa. She is a very good person. She would do anything to help people to have a better life. She is someone I look up to. We had our fun moments and stressful moments as well. She made me realize that there are so many people that really need help out there. Every person that walked out of her office, walked out with a smile on everyday. It made me think about my future career. Do I want to make a difference in the community? Having this experience made me realize that I might want to help people and make them walk out of my office with a smile on their face as my future career. I can’t wait to learn more and see if I want this for my future.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Immersion!!!
1. What are you most excited about in regards to your immersion experience? Why do you feel this way? I'm really exited to be at my internship every day for two weeks because I really want to learn a lot more. These past weeks that I've been going to my internship I've been learning a lot and cant wait to learn more. I'm also looking forward to experience a "grown up life" for two weeks.
2. What are you most concerned about (what causes the most stress) regarding immersion? Why do you feel this way? I'm concerned about the time my mentor is making go in at 10am and leave at 7pm, but at the same time I think is good that I'm going in a regular work day schedule. Another concerned is that I'm going to stay really late and might not be able to work on my other assignments from my other classes.
2. What are you most concerned about (what causes the most stress) regarding immersion? Why do you feel this way? I'm concerned about the time my mentor is making go in at 10am and leave at 7pm, but at the same time I think is good that I'm going in a regular work day schedule. Another concerned is that I'm going to stay really late and might not be able to work on my other assignments from my other classes.
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