Blog Assignment 6: Collaborative Writing Project Issues/Progress Report

Introduction

In this blog, I will be discussing my thoughts about the course project that my groups will present to my English 333 class.  Since my group, of four members, are all education majors, we are working with Oak Grove lower elementary.  We will be telling the public about the events that will be happening at the school.  It is going to take a very long time to make sure that we have everything about this project worked out right.

Facts and Discussions

We are not exactly to the point that we need to be on this project.  The only thing we have accomplished so far is the group proposal.  Although all we have been required to do so far is turn in the group proposal, we still need to be getting a head start on the many other parts of the project.  We have other events and ideas planned for the project, but have not yet started to work on them.  For the project, we are required to do something with technology, something in print, and something else of our choice that all describe an event.  The idea we decided for the technology portion of the project is that we are doing a commercial about the Acorn Run that promotes exercise and raises money for the school.  The idea we decided for the print portion of the commercial is that we are making a pop-up book about the art program located at the school.  Lastly the idea we decided for our choice is to make a t-shirt design that promotes the pow-wow day held at the school.  Within the next few weeks, we will begin to make the commercial, pop-up book, and the t-shirt design.  The main problem that I foresee happening is the pop-up book.  I am almost positive it is going to be very hard to make.  I do believe it is a very cute idea because we are all elementary majors working with an elementary school, but I do believe we will encounter some issues with it.

Conclusions

Overall, things are going very well within the group.  I think we have a great idea planned.  Since we have just begun working on the project, we have a few kinks that need to be fixed.  Working in groups is always very hard because there are so many dominant and “go with the flow” personalities.  Sometimes people want to do too much work, and sometimes people do not want to do enough work on the project.  Once we discuss who will be completing what, the project will work out perfectly.

Recommendations

I think since we are currently on doing well with the project that there is nothing we need the instructor to do to help us get ahead.  We do need to work on the rest of the project, but the instructor cannot help us with that.

Blog 5: Beginning the Job Search

Job: 

·         YMCA Child Care

            www.ymcahattiesburg.org

Master list of the types of qualifications, skills, and experiences of the jobs:

·         Work well with children

·         Tend to children’s needs

·         Have patience

·         Be organized

·         Not be short tempered

·         Need to know how to speak to children

·         Feed children

·         Be creative

·         Make things interesting

·         Be responsible

·         Dedicated

·         Hard working

            My major is elementary education, and I plan to teach children once I receive my bachelor’s degree from USM.  I am actually applying for this job right now to work this spring and during the summer.  This past summer, I worked at a daycare in Magee, MS called ABC Playschool.  I think I would be fit for this job not only because I do want to be a teacher, but because I work well with children.  I love being in the environment around them.  During the summer, I had to tend to children’s needs, feed them breakfast and lunch, be responsible, dedicated, work well around them, have patience, be creative, make things interesting, and be organized.  Some days I would be working by myself with twenty children ranging from five to eleven.  It was very hard to deal with some days, but I loved every minute of it.  Working at the YMCA would be very good experience for me because of my major.  In the past, I have had to demonstrate everything listed in the master list.  I know that I have everyone of those characteristics, and would be fit very well for working at the YMCA.