my last spring break

For my final spring break as a high school senior I plan to just relax. I have found myself getting annoyed and bothered with the repetitive days. I plan to stay up too late and sleep in for too long. Just recharge my batteries and get my mind and body to finish the end of this year without drop kicking someone. I will have many nights hanging out with friends, relaxing and being an average teenager. I do have a soccer game over the break. I hope to be able to make this but there is a possibility that some friends and I are going to go south and visit an old friend that left at the beginning of this year. Just in all I am going to make sure that I don’t regret not having a good time on my final spring break. It will be a lot of fun and I will always remember my final.

My Working Habits

In-class Work Habits

The in-class work habits I could improve on are staying on task. I am not the type of person to do long time consuming tasks that are easy. I would rather have something that is difficult and challenges me but doesn’t take up a lot of my time. If the work isn’t challenging me then I don’t really see the point in it so I get off task. I guess the best way to put it is I get bored. That’s way my out-class work habits are bad as well.

 If the teacher gives us homework there is always one thing in my mind that is holding me back from doing it. It is that I don’t believe in homework. I know that sounds like a “teenage lazy procrastinator” but there is two things that make me feel this way. The first thing that I have come to learn is that we have to go through six other classes in the same day and learn something new every hour practically. By the time we get home we won’t remember all the steps necessary to do the homework, and since we are at our home we can’t raise our hand and ask the teacher.  Home is the place where you should be able to go and relax, do chores, talk to your parents, or maybe is things aren’t well at home you need to be out all night at a job. I know people say you can make time for it but there really isn’t a point to having homework. It is a reason to see if you can “do it on your own,” when in order to see this; a teacher just has to give out classwork and let you do it on your own. The second reason I don’t believe in homework is that it is just work that is time consuming. It doesn’t teach you anything new and you do that same thing you did in the class but at your home. 

How I came up with my three goals

The way I came up with my goals by thinking of things that I need to do to make this year a good or better year. I chose these goals because they are easy but important goals in my life that I haven't done yet. I plan on doing these goals to go to college, do better at my job, and have a good last year of high school.

My Goals 2016

My Goals 2016

My personal goal for this year is to do good at my soccer practices. This doesn't seem like that big of a goal but I am not really a soccer player and I am not the best at it, but i have made this goal that way when I am tired at practice and I'm wanting to give up I can motivate my self to do better. 

My professional goal is to do ten periscopes by April. This is a more specific goal and it again it doesn't seem like that big of a goal but the periscopes have to be on certain days in the week. So for me this is a possible but hard to sustain goal for me because as a high school student there will be a lot of other things I will be wanting to do. 

My educational goal is to not get a D in the second semester. I am usually a good student but I am lazy at times like all people. I will work hard to not do this in the second semester that way i can say that i ended my high school career on a good note. 
                                                 

WBL intro videos

What did you discuss in your videos?

We talked about what our placement or our desired placement. Then we talked about what we do or would do at our placement. Next we talked about how you conduct yourself on the job, how we use literacy on the job, and how we use numeracy incorporated on the job. There were a lot of different types of answers because a lot of people have different job placements in the class.

Do you feel your videos are a good representation of yourself?  Would an admissions officer or scholarship panel be impressed by your submission?

I feel that my videos are a very good representation of myself. It shows the way I speak and how professional I am. I believe that if I were to show this to an admissions officer or scholarship panel that they would be impressed. I’m sure that there will not be a lot of people that will have a video file to turn in. it will make me stand out and be remembered.

Explain the purpose of having these as evidence of excellent work in an electronic portfolio.

The purpose of having this electronically is because everything can be done online today. Doing everything online makes things much faster and much easier to keep track of.

What other activities would you like to do next semester to add to your portfolio?

I am hoping to make more videos to further explain my strengths and I am hoping to get more work done from DRVN. It will give me real world work that I will be able to show that I really know what I am doing. 

the youtube page in wbl

Which social media platform did you work on?

This week I worked on our YouTube page with Justice. We began to set up our info and are now in the works of uploading videos.

What did you notice about other effective accounts and how did you incorporate them into our WBL account?

 The rest of the class is working on a website, twitter, and a google plus account. This will allow us the ability to show them to employers and or colleges.

How well do you think you performed in the presentation?

I think that I did well and I have filed down to the main points I want to say and I will look more confident. I still have some nerves that are obvious in the video but with work on it and experience I will get better and make a very well made professional intro.

How will our social media platforms help others understand what we do in class?

With our YouTube page we will be able to make videos about what we do in a day, who we are, and what we plan to achieve. This will help us look more professional in the future.

Do you think students will be interested in enrolling in WBL as a result of what we’ve posted?  Why or why not?

I think students like me will be more interested because you will be able to see how it is helping us and how it will make us look better in our portfolio. 

This Week

The artifacts I believe you should have to demonstrate professionalism and ethical behavior is to have a portfolio that consists of a resume and any achievements or awards you have obtained in the past. Having one of these ready and saved on your computer at all times. This way if you get a wonderful job interview or you have someone investing in you or your ideas then you can show them what you’re made of.

           

The interesting things I have learned this week have come from stories from students talking about the experiences they have had at they’re job. I have heard from an employee that works at a pizza shop that he will have multiple customers try to skip the entire way the establishment works and mess the order up of everything. I have heard from a student that works at a waffle house they have had multiple drug related situations happen there. They have people come into work drunk and or high. They have had employees do it while at work, witch I’m really not too sure how this works, but personally the worst of all they have had people, some employees, selling drugs out of the establishment. Just hearing stories like this it makes me wonder how some people like that still have they’re jobs. Then it’s bad for the company because it will then get a bad rap. I hope these people realize this is a bad idea before things get really bad for them.