This summer I worked for Centralta Tourism Society in St.Albert. At first there was not much for me to do as Canada Summer Jobs was late in giving out funding making my offical start date later. The first project I worked on was the Marguertie d'Youvillee / Grey Nuns Mural project with ESSMY school in St.Albert I reasearched and found information on both. I created a Grey Nuns Blog and worked with the school on providing direction for the mural by finding resources and pictures to use in the mural. I also worked at recruiting students to be involved this was successful and I set up alot of the groundwork so that this project can start in the fall of this year. Then I worked on reading stories and writing up Questions and Answers for the Grades that the stories applied to. This took a lot of time. I did presentations to grade 8 students about the Japan Albert blog and my experience there. This was very enjoyable. I attended many meetings, worked on PAC blog and getting my Tech assistants to do research for me and to work on PAC and New Comers to Canada blog. I have done alot of networking with the Schools in St.Albert by volunteering and contacting the schools. For example, I worked with students and staff from Fowler school and did a video interview with Mr. Fowler, for whom the school is named. I have also been working on reading The End of Religion for the Faith in Action Blog I hope to get this read by the end of the summer.
I only had a 6 week position with 240 hours making it difficult to get work done but still save my hours so that I could be involved in hosting and working with Japanese teachers and attend the summer meetings. The most difficult aspect of the Job is working on things I'm not passionate about and working with others, who don't communicate or get their work done well or when I need it done and waiting on others in order to get my work done. I enjoyed the mural project and working on it with ESSMY. I did not enjoy the big group work meetings, as it did not help me do my Job better as I had learned most of what was covered last year or it did not apply to me. The only things I learned at the big group meetings is what others had accomplished. I enjoyed the repetitive activities the least, as I found them boring and not where my passion or interest. I enjoyed working on the Alberta/ Japan, New Comers to Canada and PAC and Grey Nuns blog as they were more interesting, as I got to work with others and I can see where the blogs are going and how they will be used and how what I did impacted others. The Questions and Answers and summary of stories I did not see how what I did would impact and get others involved in the future as people don't want paper copies anymore they want Internet sites, videos and pictures.
Monday, 8 August 2011
Thursday, 14 July 2011
July 14th
Today I have spent 11.5 hours working on blogs, emails viewing pictures and journaling, Working on St. Albert Christmas Indexing, PAC indexing and Video Capture of the Fowler interview. As of today I am done all my hours and will send them in today.
July 13th
Today I worked 1.5 hours on Questions to ask the Japanese as well as handouts for the Japanese.
July 12th
Today I spent 5 hours in a meeting at the University of Alberta to go over the Japanese teacher program and plan for it as well as worked on other projects.
June 24th
Today I worked for 2 hours on Questions to ask the Japanese teachers when they came in our discussion groups.
June 21st
Today was another group meeting at NAIT and I worked with the group on projects for 7 hours.
June 20th
Today I had a meeting at the University of Alberta to go over the Japan teacher program the meeting was 2 hours long.
June 18th
Today I worked for 1 hour on Questions to ask seniors and had a meeting to go over the questions.
June 15th
Today I worked 1.5 hours on Questions to ask Seniors, emails, and reading "The End of Religion" by Bruxy Cavey.
June 14th
Today I had a meeting at NAIT and worked with the group on PAC and other projects for 5.5 hours.
June 13th
Today I worked 4 hours I tried to meet with Mr.Fowler to do my video interview but was unsuccessful I also worked on my Questions for the interview.
June 9th
Today I worked 12 hours at ESSMY on coming up with a project outline, write ups for the project, meeting with teachers and students interested in the project, I also worked with Sam and what he needed to get done.
June 7th
Today I worked 4 hours at a meeting at NAIT and I did some more reading of " The End of Religion" by Bruxy Cavey
June 6th
Today I worked 6 hours on Questions to ask Mr.Fowler, emails and research for projects and creating a video interview project with Questions to ask Mr.Fowler.
June 2nd
Today I worked 8 hours in meetings with people about 150th Anniversary projects also had a meeting to go over the direction of this summer , I had a meeting with Erniee about the direction things are going this summer and I also attended Mass on the hill a 150th anniversary celebration in St.Albert.
June 1st
Today I worked 8 hours on Reading for the Faith in Action Blog "The End of Religion" by Bruxy Cavey I also sent emails. Today was the last day I sent daily emails to my boss as he never replied or commented on them and I saw this as a complete waste of time. Also my boss did not keep me up to date on what the rest of the team was doing as a result I was excluded from the office and what was happing there.
May 31st Last day in May worked
Today I worked 8 hours I handed in my Questions and Answer Key for Ernie's stories finally. I also worked at NAIT on training and sent some emails.
May 30th
Today I worked 9 hours I was forced to go to Legal by my boss to see the mural tour of the murals of the stories I had read and questions, summary and answer key I had created. As a result of this trip to Legal I did not get to meet with Alberta Lacombe school about there 150th Anniversary projects and was unable to accomplish much work on St.Albert blogs. The Mural tour was a complete waste of my time as I am supposed to be working on St.Albert projects in St.Albert not Legal. Also I had already been on part of the Mural tour when I had attended a work BBQ. I finished the Summaries of Ernie's stories finally. I also did a little bit of training in Legal.
May 27th
Today I worked 6 hours on emails, and typing in PAC international resources for newcomers to Canada blog .
May 26th
Today I worked 8 hours
| read books for pac and international blog ,sent emails I also did a presentation to grade 8 students at a school in Parkland County about Alberta Japan Blog and my trip to Japan last summer. |
May 25th
Today I worked 11 hours on ESSMY project and Ernie's Questions. I was at ESSMY today working on the Marguriete d'Youville project I got to meet the artist today which was good and select pictures to paint, and the layout of the painting. I also met with Jon to go over projects he is working on and sent emails.
May 24th
Today I spent 10.5 hours working on Ernie's questions,grey nuns book summary, and research for other facts net blogs and planning for this week. I also was at NAIT for a training session, and sent some emails.
May 23rd
Today I worked 6 hours on
| Ernie's questions, grey nuns book summary, research for blogs, planning my projects |
May 20th
Today I worked 8 hours on meetings at the University of Alberta about international students, researching at the University of Alberta about international opportunities , and Ernie's stories and answer keys.
Start Day May 19th
Today I officially started work I worked 9 hours 21 minutes. I worked on phoning schools about 150th Anniversary projects in St. Albert, Ernie's questions, worked with Rebecca on PAC as I am Admin on that blog, looked at schools websites to see what they had done for Christmas and 150th anniversary projects in St. Albert, I also sent emails to Principles of some of the schools in St.Albert.
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Things I Did not like about work
I did not like reading the stories and doing questions and answers as I found the stories not relevant and it was a time consuming project . Also I did not see how what I did would impact others in the future.
Things I enjoyed about work
I enjoyed working on the FACTSnet blogs presenting to students and meeting with organizations. I enjoyed this work as I got to meet new people work with others and go into the schools to present blog projects. I enjoyed doing work on the FACTSnet blogs as I could see the direction of it and how it could impact others in the future.
Other Summer Project Activities
I also worked on sending emails to schools and trying to get schools involved in 150th anniversary projects in St.Albert and getting connected to our blogs. I also worked with others on Visitors to Canada blog, PAC blog and other blogs. I also presented the Alberta Japan blog to students and met with other organizations to try and get them to work with us on our network.
Ernies Summer Project
I worked on reading articles for Centralta Tourism Society and coming up with a summary, questions and answers for teachers to use in the schools.
ESSMY Project
The first project I worked on was on researching Marguerite d' Youville and getting pictures for a mural at ESSMY school. I also met with teachers and artists to try and cordite a general plan for how the mural will look. I also worked with students in getting them to start the planning for the mural and setting up the project for them to work on. I also did a few presentations to the students of the school in order to get more people involved in the project.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Johanna's to do list for work
1.Sister Eveline interview discuss options of posting it on July 19th.
2. Work with Nic on PAC- ongoing
3. Work with Sam and Jon on St. Albert projects ernie specific -ongoing
4.Write up summer job journal 2011- work on today
5. Japan Video from my Mac to a portable drive- dave drive
6. Read End of Religion to post on Faith in Action Blog with notes - whenever
7. Get Gahna course outline - in the fall
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