Thursday, November 19, 2015

Artifacts for Portfolio’s and This Week
            If you have been following this blog or if you have read my previous entry about, making an introduction video and portfolio’s you may recall me stating that my portfolio is a little bare. This was due to a lack of artifacts to fill my portfolio; an artifact is a digital or physical document that you can place in your portfolio. A good example of an artifact is the introduction video that the Work Based Learning class made before starting the development of the portfolio. I would link the video to this blog entry, unfortunately though my partner never finished editing the video. Although I do not have my introduction video, there are other types of artifacts that can be used to develop your portfolio. Personally I believe a well written resume is essential to a great portfolio. I believe that the resume give the employer a quick water-downed version of your portfolio. After your resume should be document representing and reinforcing what you claim to be in your resume.

            This week we have been going over professionalism and the proper way to act in a professional environment. Frist we went over how to be responsible in a professional or business area and we reviewed the proper method to go along if someone forgot their credit card at the cash register, or if you over hear explicit conduct/content going on between two employees and it’s not wanted by one of the two employees. For example if a customer has recently purchase something at your cash register line and they forgot it, what would you do? Well we established the morale dilemma on one hand you could take the card and use it for yourself, however the social responsible thing to do is try to let the person know before they leave or if it has been to long turn it in to the office’s lost and found section of the story. 

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Working Separately but Together
                A few weeks ago my work based learning class developed a newsletter and there were a few difficulties at first. Things started to resolve when I started to communicate to the group that I was the designer. The newsletter and the presentation looked like rubbish with information sprayed all over it.
             To fix the problem I had, I told everyone to not worry about the style of everything and let me focus on the appearance of the presentation. After I informed everyone that I would do our font color, font size, background, and etc. It started to move little more smoothly, although I had to work around everything that was put into the presentation. Fortunately though I was able to fix the problem with the font’s style and color that the other student put in, also I found a descent background with good color to be displayed on a projector.

            That week in my Work Base Learning class I learned the importance of communication in a group project, and how to effective get a group of people to collaborate on a group project.