Multitasking

This week’s blog isn’t going to be very long since most of you have found a placement and have been doing a lot of quality work.  I definitely notice a sense of pride when you share out your experiences for the week with the group and also understand you’re learning firsthand about life in the professional world.  Your weekly tasks will again be divided between those with placements and those still looking for placements.  Please see below for a breakdown of your weekly assignments:

Those With Placements

While you’re working or training, think of TWO different portfolio artifacts you could create based on what you learned or did for the week.  When you arrive in class, we will begin working on them.  Suggestions for portfolio artifacts include:

• Instructional/Training video of your own
• Video footage of you working in the office
• An interview with one of the professionals (hint: your workplace mentor is a great candidate for this)
• An audio recording of you discussing some of the things you learned for the week
• Think about creating a 3 to 6 minute podcast with one of your classmates in which you share out what you learned for the week.  This could be almost identical to what we do on Fridays in class

When you return to class on Friday, we’ll work on how you make one of these in your own time outside of class or even on the job (remember to remain HIPAA compliant)

Those without placements

1. In addition to searching for and finding your placement, publish your Weebly page.
2. Create a class Weebly page similar to what my class created last year.  
3. Create a class Twitter page similar to last year’s Twitter page
4. Create a class YouTube page similar to last year’s YouTube page
1. I suggest creating a class email account and Google+ profile as well

Divide these tasks among yourselves and work diligently.  Once the accounts are created, I’ll let you know what to post.  I look forward to seeing your progress.

On Thursday and Friday, we’ll continue to work on the promotional video our administration suggested and write a short blog entry about your week.  Be engaging with the reader when you’re writing so you don’t sound like you’re strictly reporting facts in an interrogation.  This will make the blog easier to read and will make the assignment more fun.  That’s it for this week.  I look forward to seeing you in class!