...Senior Project is designed to have you reach out beyond the classroom to explore your own area of study, and to combine skills you have learned at Mineola High School in a significant demonstration of your skills. But beyond the hours you will spend on your project, there is a larger lesson here. At the heart of your Senior Project experience lays the answer to the question What really matters to me? You may not even hear your answer until later sometimes our passions sneak up on us and don't fully show their faces until we are old enough and strong enough to contain them. Some students discover that they care deeply about social justice or global issues. Others find talents for arts such as photography or teaching. Some learn the important lesson of what they don't want to do with their lives. Whatever the discovery, students walk away from the Senior Project with a clearer sense of who they are and who they are becoming. Good or bad, the experience teaches us valuable information. A senior project can help you find what you would like to do in college and what you would like to do in life. Researching and talking to people that are in the field that you were interested in can show you a glimpse of what it would be like to work in that field that you are doing the research in. A senior...
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...Although I finished my data collection a few weeks ago (hence the lack of posting), I've been continuing my work with YAA and the i.d.e.a. Museum. Over the course of my Senior Research Project, I've gained experience with research in a non-scientific setting, and I've also learned more about what makes outreach efforts successful. While my involvement with Young Authors of Arizona continues, the awards ceremony two weeks ago marks my last event as a Student Leader with YAA. I recently committed to the University of Pennsylvania, and I hope to apply what I've learned about writing outreach to similar efforts in Philadelphia. For now, I'm looking into future projects for YAA and searching for new student leadership to make those projects happen. I'm also helping the i.d.e.a. Museum to develop a more formalized summer program for teen volunteers....
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...Portfolio of Evidence: Reflection Paper This is your final reflection, a summative reflection and self-evaluation of your entire senior project experience. As such, this reflection should be very detailed. Use your Journal Log to guide your writing. This paper needs to be: • 500 words • Typed • Double Spaced Paragraph 1 : Introductory • Briefly describe your senior project (include you overall topic, mentor, fieldwork, and your product.) Include the dates when you started and completed your product, the estimated number of hours you spent creating the product, the total number of mentor hours, the names of any people who provided assistance when you were making the product, why you chose this project topic. Paragraph 2 : How has this project changed/impacted you? • Explain how completing the product has prepared you for next year as well as for future years. • Describe a key moment when your understanding of the project changed. • Very specifically describe how the project has stretched you emotionally, intellectually and/or physically. Paragraph 3 : What changes would you make? What problems did you encounter? • If given the opportunity to re-do your project, what changes/additions/subtractions would you make? • Describe what problems you encountered in completing the project and how you solved them. • Did you product turn out the way you planned? If not, why? If yes, elaborate on the specific factors that led to the success of your product. Paragraph 4 : Self-satisfaction/Sense...
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...Dealing With Stress My senior thesis project is going to be about stress. I want to learn how to educate others (my peers) throughout a web site about stress, what it is, how serious it is and how to deal with it. I will create a Wonder How To account where I am going to update every time I have something or learn something new about stress. I am interested in this project because I know counselors have to deal with this type of problems, and know information about what is stress and how to deal with it. By doing this project I will be a step closer in knowing a start of big problems among teens. My investigation for my senior thesis will be: What affects does stress cause in your body? How could teens alleviate stress? Is stress different between teens and adults? My products are going to be: To create a brain model Two types of surveys, one will be done in school the other one will be done throughout the community Reflections on testing out surveys. The survey that I will be testing among my peers is going to be from school. Research Paper Wonder How To (website) Authenticity My project is going to be real by the products I will be creating, updating information to the wonder How To and by doing the research. One of the reasons I choose this project is because, is the first thing that came to my head when I was meeting with Joan. It is also one of the things I see everyday. This is also something I been...
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...both in the present and the future. 4. to provide you with an opportunity to reflect on particular social issues connected with the population you serve through your reading, writing and discussion with others. REQUIREMENTS: The service project which you choose must comply with the following guidelines: 1. The work must serve persons directly (e.g., secretarial work without relating directly to clientele served is not allowed). 2. These persons should have "special needs" -- those associated with age, social or economic background; physical, mental or emotional deprivation or disabilities. 3. The student may not receive pay (monetary compensation) for her service. 4. The project should include a minimum of 30 hours or service as well as a minimum of 5 days of service; with the exception of Nerinx-sponsored Spring Break Service, the hours cannot count until after Junior final exams in May. 5. The student's service must take place in one location. 6. The proposal of service must be approved by Ms. Hartrich. WRITTEN EXPECTATIONS: 1. Preliminary Report: This initial report (yellow sheet in Contract Packet), includes your general goals and learning plan (reading and research) for your project. 2. Service Packet: This is your final product...
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...Breana Bey Digital Art Studio Homework: WWP10: Foundation Reflections The digital arts foundations course could improve better for students for digital 398 and their senior project by for example, CSCI 111Q Introduction to Computing having a better understanding of the concepts and theories of science and technology. Also to have a better understanding of the interconnected and relationships among the natural, physical, and technological sciences. So the students can express the way social and ethical implication of science and technology in relation to the student daily lives. Which can help the students solve problems and critical thinking skills through application of scientific knowledge using hands-on activities for their senior project....
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...Candidate Details Assessment – BSB51407 – Procurement Please complete the following activities and hand in to your trainer for review. This forms part of your assessment. Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ Employer: _____________________________________________________________ Declaration I declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where I have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this assessment has been written for me by another person. Signed: ____________________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________________________________________ If activities have been completed as part of a small group or in pairs, details of the learners involved should be provided below; This activity workbook has been completed by the following persons and we acknowledge that it was a fair team effort where everyone contributed equally to the work completed. We declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where we have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this assessment has been written for us by another person. Learner 1: ____________________________________________________________ ...
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...The Responsibility Project Lorraine A. Garcia ETH/316 May 20, 2013 Glenn H. DeAtley, J.D. The Responsibility Project “The Home Team” is a great short film reflecting the team comradery of the Murray State Racers basketball team. This film reflects the coaches and players perspective, as well as, the community’s love of the game, players, and traditions. This is not only just an extra curriculum event for these people this is an event that brings out families across all areas in the city. They have had a very successful team over they years and when entering the gym and the many banners reflecting their championships are a reflection of that. One of the issues that was brought up in the field was that of the importance of the game. Restaurants and people reflecting the school colors, signs being changed to show the support that they have for the team and the town almost completely shutting down in order to attend home games were expressed and shown. These are sure signs that the support that they have for the team is huge. Being a small town, Murray thrives on talking and living and breathing basketball and it was actually stated on the film that it is what Murray, Kentucky on the map. The players spoke about how when they came into the school their freshman year they were treated as family from everyone and feel that everyone in the town are friends. Coach Steve Proham said that he witnessed that the players, as well as him, are in embraced as family...
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...Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2008 Towards Measuring Knowledge Management Success Murray E. Jennex San Diego State University mjennex@mail.sdsu.edu Abstract Discussions at previous HICSS conferences have revealed that there is no general agreement on definitions of knowledge management (KM) and knowledge management system (KMS) success. We developed these concepts and presented them earlier this year. Using an expert panel approach followed by two exploratory surveys, we identify KM success measures. The research demonstrates that measures for KM success are required on multiple dimensions. This paper thus also presents a set of dimensions with measures that can be used to determine if KM in an organization is successful. Stefan Smolnik European Business School (EBS) Stefan.Smolnik@ebs.edu David Croasdell University of Nevada, Reno davec@unr.edu begin to identify instruments that can be used to operationalize these measures. Besides presenting some background on KM success, the paper also offers a series of perspectives on KM/KMS success. These perspectives were derived from an analysis of academics and practitioners’ definitions of KM/KMS success. 2. Background on KM Success After summarizing various definitions of KM, Jennex defined KM success as reusing knowledge to improve organizational effectiveness by providing the appropriate knowledge to those who need it when it is needed [13]. KM is expected to have a...
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...However many people don’t know how to learn. In fact the most difficult training strategies are those that are developed for personnel in senior leadership positions. Senior leaders are effective problem solvers when focusing on, identifying and correcting issues in the organizational environment. But when confronted with how their actions might have contributed to the organization’s problems they avoid learning; and in order for learning to continue personal reflection is required to influence change. A learning organization must understand the distinction between ‘‘single loop learning” and ‘‘double loop learning”. “Single loop learning” involves the identification and solving of a problem. Whereas “double loop learning” asks why is there a problem? Professionals utilize “single-loop learning” for projects such as organizational restructuring, training and development and process improvement. But seldom do they master the skills of “double loop learning”. All too often success has denied these professionals the opportunity to learn from their mistakes. As a result they avoid learning because they lack the reflective skills necessary to ask themselves why there is a problem and what role did I play in that problem. Avoidance Learning Studies of professional consultants exemplify the process of avoidance learning. For example when a project is not going as planned or when confronted with their own performance; it’s not uncommon to hear a defensive response such as “it is...
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...Nanyang Research Programme (NRP) Reflection Out of the curiosity of how scientists have the power to turn fiction into reality and the experience of undertaking research, I applied for a NRP project on cloaking an antenna in electromagnetic field and finally received a Gold Award at NRP symposium. The research was really a bitter-experience. The way the professor guided us was so much different from school as we had much autonomy in deciding almost everything. From the beginning, my partner and I had to research on the relevant fields on invisibility and assess our own academic ability to choose the project to undertake. Working with the research group under professor Dr. Zhang Baile was really an eye-opening experience. We attended the weekly sharing sessions which seniors share their recent reading ups and how they think they can apply the new findings to their projects. Such sharing sessions were very effective and it was a quick way to obtain knowledge as each individual has his or her own research limitation. In fact I have learned from this process and applied in a group of people to share the news we read to use as General Paper examples. The vigorous discussions help me lay an in-depth understanding abou the subject and encourage me to treat my knowledge learning more seriously. The patient and friendly seniors were always ready to help. I have learnt to use two stimulation...
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...Project Management Case Studies These case studies represent a range of projects in different libraries. They are all based on real events. The participating librarians were asked to provide details of projects within the headings used in the case study template which is located at the end of this document. Each case study is presented using these headings to enable the reader to make comparisons between the projects but there is some slight variation of style and detail. Although some editing has been done by the writer of these learning objects, the intention is to retain as much of the individuality of each project as possible. Brief conclusion and analysis is provided at the end of each case study by the writer of these learning objects. Several of the projects are ongoing at the time of writing. This partly reflects the nature of projects in ILS whereby they run parallel to mainstream service delivery. This offers real challenges for those involved and especially for the project leader who will continually need to prioritise the tasks, commitment and speed of working towards completion. None of these projects have been submitted by or directly involve senior managers. Although most have some approval and reporting to senior staff, these projects are managed by professionals in the middle management strata of their organizations and involve different grades of staff or volunteers. Senior staff are less accessible than middle managers and would probably claim to...
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...Culture & Cultivation English 4WS (Sec 2) – Critical Reading & Writing w/ Service Learning ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Instructor: Alex Zobel Email: akzobel@gmail.com Office: Humanities A82 Time & Location: T/R 9:00-10:50 Rolfe 3134 Office Hours: W 12:00 - 2:00 pm Mailbox Location: Humanities 149 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ COURSE DESCRIPTION English 4W aims to expose students to the three major forms of literature (poetry, prose fiction, and drama) through the art of close reading, which literary scholars broadly define as the practice of scrutinizing a text carefully in order to discern complex patterns of meaning. It is impossible to spend sufficient time on the works we will be exploring within the bounds of class-time, so you will be required to spend time reading and writing on your own; this is a practice that will enable you to bring your personal experiences with these works to our discussions in class and participate in an engaged way as part of our community of learning. But our community of learning is broader than the classroom—it also includes the community organizations you will be partnering with for your service-learning. We will be investigating and interrogating a versatile metaphor—cultivation—and how it impacts the cultures and communities in which we live...
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...Background A popular social gaming service provider, Gamio was founded in June 2009 and headquartered in New York. This company has been developing online social games that can be accessed via social networking websites such as Facebook, Google+ and Tencent. Also, the games can be accessed via their website- Gamio.com Nate Waldroff, the founder and the CEO of the company, states its mission as “connecting the world through games”. True to its mission statement, this provider has launched some great series of online games, the best known being Mystic Trails. This game, was launched on Facebook in October 2009 and within seven weeks, reached 10 million daily active users (DAU). As of early January, 2012, three of the top five Facebook games (in terms of MAU, according to AppData) were Gamio titles. Overall, Gamio games had over 265 million monthly active users (MAU). Figures suggest that 80 percent of revenue for Gamio comes from Facebook users. This four year old company is one of the rare internet start ups that are profitable, earning $121 million since the start of 2010. It has emerged as the Web’s largest social gaming company, recording $828.9 million in revenue in the first nine months of 2011. The Rise of Gamio Creativity and Innovation gave way to some great, award winning and category defining games that took the social gaming industry by storm. The company had a first-mover advantage with a new concept behind their designs – new games for friends to play...
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...4 lessons learned in Project Management Keep an open/honest channel of discussion with your boss/manager: Sometimes it is important to understand that management expects nothing but the best their team members. What should you do when things do not go well? Keep an open dialogue. Explain to your boos about the situation and always propose a solution to the problem at hand. Most direct reports do not approach the boss with solutions and merely present the problems, almost always exasperating the senior manager. This is important because it teaches crisis management and delivering bad news. Closing down a project: Closedown is the final phase of project management. Every project has an end point-the time at which objectives are achieved and deliverables are handed over to stakeholders. At that point, the project must fold its and the members must return to their assignments. This step is important because every project team should reflect on the their past activities- what went wrong? What could be done different in the future? The lessons learned through reflection must be recorded and incorporated into future projects. Commitment to a common goal is important: A shared understanding of the goal is extremely important but really effective teams go a step further. Their members are committed to the goal. This is extremely important because there is a big difference between understanding and commitment. Commitment is a visceral quality that motivates members to do work and...
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