Finally Finished

We are finally done with our project. On Monday we did our presentation in the dorm and I think that went over very well. We had about ten or fifteen people show up which was fairly good. Most of the people there we our friends so sometimes they weren’t always on their best behavior. When things did get settled down the presentation was really good and some of the guys even had questions. I think we did a good job explaining everything to them even the things that weren’t in the power point.
Now that it is all over I’m really glad that I did the project. When we first decided to do a project on common dorm sicknesses I didn’t think I would learn very much because again these things are quite common and people just know about them. But, there were some very interesting things about some of these sicknesses that we found we quite interesting. Some of the troubles we ran into while working on this project was just time to work together. We all had very different schedules and personal lives that sometimes made it hard for us to communicate with each other outside of class. We got over these obstacles very well and we put together a great project.
Looking back on what we did I think that we probably should have done more sicknesses. The ones we did were great and worked really well for our concept but there were a few others that we could have done that would have made it better. I also found the teaching aspect to be quite difficult. It can be challenging to get eighteen and nineteen year old guys to always stay on track and focused. Now I can see what some teachers may have to go through and I can say it can be a little frustrating.
Although teaching was difficult at times it was a great experience. It taught me that even though when I’m in class there are things that we do that don’t seem so bad really do annoy teachers. This I’m hoping will help me develop into a better student. I really enjoyed working with my group. We got a lot accomplished and we worked well together. Overall I had lots of fun working on this project and I got a lot more out of it than I ever thought. It was a fun and interesting experience for me and I enjoyed it a lot more than I ever thought I would.

I learned Where Debot Goes

Going into the service learning project I was pretty skeptical about the learning part. I knew that I would be doing a service to for the community but was not to sure about how much I was going to learn. During my service learning project I learned a lot of new information as well as incite into the social aspects of trying to educate the public. A majority of the people who walked through the HEC were unresponsive to the information that we were presenting. For the most part the people who stopped were people we knew and were curious to see what we were doing. If I did this project again, I would chose a more interesting subject and have a more interactive display so that we could get more people we didn’t know to get curious and come check it out. Learning how to more effectively engage and teach the public is an important skill I gained from this project. This is an important skill to learn because I plan on having a career in natural resource management and teaching the public about current issues is a part of that job. I also gained skills in teamwork during this project. In order for us to put a successful project together we had to make decisions about the information, poster size, design, layout etc. that satisfied the whole group.Learning about the digestive system and the common diseases for the different organs has helped me make wiser lifestyle choices. Eating a more balanced diet and cutting down on my alcohol consumption are two things that I have been doing and as a result my digestive system is healthier and I feel better than ever. Before this project I didn’t know why I got ailments like acid reflux and canker sores but now I know how to avoid getting them. The service learning project connected to a couple of my classes. The first was the lab portion of our class. When dissecting the rat, crayfish, etc. I was able to identify the different digestive organs because they were pretty similar to the human digestive system. It also connected to my health and wellness class because a big part of staying healthy is keeping your digestive system healthy and eating

Dorm Awareness

Research is going really good on our common dorm sicknesses. The amount of information is a little more than expected but we are getting through it ok. The hard part is finding the information that we want to convey to our fellow students that is understandable. We are making good progress and our bathroom pamphlets are almost ready to go up. We are thinking of ways to make it a little more appealing to the eye and also to make it a little more fun to read. I think throwing in some fun facts along with it will help. Other than that everything is going really good and we are working really well together.

Dorm Sickness

For my service learning project, I am teaming up with Chris, Eric, and I now believe Kyle. We are going to help inform people living in the dorms of common infections students and fellow peers can’t contract while living in close contact in a dorm. We are looking to enhance the knowledge and understanding of not only other people, but ourselves as well. We want to inform people of the symptoms that go hand in hand with many of the sicknesses so people can quickly recognize influenza, or mono, or in worst case scenarios possibly STD’s. We look to achieve this by first doing some research and then making posters which we will post on doors and walls or dorms. We also look to put up bulletins in the stalls of the bathroom because if you’re taking care of business reading our bulletin is inevitable. I hope to learn more about sicknesses through this project and at the same time, better other people as well.

Dorm Sickness

For my service learning project, I am teaming up with Eric and Jason. We are coming up with posters and a presentation to give to kids about common diseases and sicknesses that they can catch from living in the dorms. I am doing this project because there are a lot of diseases and sicknesses that atudents can catch in the dorms if they are not aware of them. We hope to get out of it that students will protect themselves better while living in the dorms and not getting sick.