| Senior Project Crap |
[May. 31st, 2006|12:53 am] |
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Day one:
Picked topic for senior project, decided to go to the Senior center, and teach senior citizens how to use computers.
Day two:
Called Senior Center in Albemarle, and came across a problem... No computers
Day Three:
Talk to Mrs. Huson about the computer problem,and ask if instead I can make pamphlets on teaching people how to do basic computer skills, such as turning the computer on and off properly. she says no, and to go to a nursing home and teach those senior citizens how to use a computer.
Talk to my mom, who works at a nursing home, and she says the ones that posibly could learn how to use a computer, have no need to learn.
Day Four:
Tell Mrs. Hudson what my mother said, and ask if perhaps I could teach the nurses there, instead of the senior citizens. She says no, and to go to my church and see if there is a senior citizen group there that I can teach.
Day Five:
I find out that there is not a senior group at my church.
Day Six:
I decide that I shall take the lap tops and teach random senior citizens how to use them.
Day Seven:
Talk to Mrs. Nance about using the school lap tops for my senior project, and she says that I am not aloud.
Day Eight:
Deicde to get three senior citizens that I know, and that have computers, and spend five hours with each of them, and teach them what they would like to know.
Day Nine, Ten, and Eleven:
Talk to Ann, Gilbert, and talk to them each indivdually, seeing what they already know how to do, what they would like to know how to do, and talking to them about what I am doing as my senior project.
Reflection.
What started out as an easy task ended up spiraling down to a pit of flames. I had a simple idea to teach others about something I love, computers. Senior citizens were my target, and even though older people tend to scare me, I was okay with the fact that I would be teaching them, because like I said before, I love computers. The problems all started when I realized the Senior center in Albemarle didn't have computers. How do you teach someone to use a computer with out one? So I went and asked Mrs. Hudson if I could make pamphlets on easy computer steps, such as the proper way to turn the computer on and off. she said No, and that I should go to a nursing home and teach the senior citizens there. So I talked to my mom, who just so happened to work at a nursing home, and she laughed at my idea, saying that those senior citizens, are perhaps, too old, and the few that could possible comprehend what I would be saying to them, have no use for computer skills. She then suggests, that I teach the nurses that work there how to use a computer, they have more use for the knowledge then the senior citizens. So I go back and talk to Mrs. Hudson, telling her what my mom said, and telling her about my mom's suggestion. Once again, I am told that the idea presented, can not be used. This time she says to go to my church, and see if we have a senior citizen group there that I can teach. I go to my church only to find that, we unfortunatly, do not have a senior citizen group. So I am back to square one with my senior project, and time is dwindling away. I eventually get fed up with not having any ideas and decide that I will borrow laptops from the school, and just teach random senior citizens how to use a computer. Even though the thought is completly insane, it doensn't matter, because when I go and talk to Mrs. Nance, she tells me that I am not aloud to take the laptops out of the school; which now means, I have no computers what-so-ever to teach anyone on. So I reflected back on what the whole point of the senior project was; to overcome faults, and impediments, while attepting to make the world a better place, one step at a time, by yourself.
One thing Mrs. Hudson taught me this year was, that I am an adault, and therefore, I can make my own desicons. So I decided that I would quit relying on Mrs. Hudson to help me with my project, and that I would take my next idea, and exicute it, and if it doesns't work out, oh well, the whole project is a learing process anyways, and if it does work out, then I have my project done, and I completed with my own idea. The idea was to find a few senior citizens, and teach them on a regualar basis, things they actually wanted to know how to do on a computer. I found three volenteers, to help me out, meaning I would be spending five hours a piece. So Fridays after school, Saturdays, and Sundays, for a litte over a month were spent teaching my volenteers what they wanted to know. The good parts of this idea, were that I no longer needed computers, because they had there own, I didn't have to come up with a list of topics to teach, because they knew what they wanted to know, they could ask me questions on the next visit, when they were trying to learn something, and that I could quiz them, to see if they remembered what I taught them. The only bad problem was that because they were not my computers to take care of, I could not protect the computers from getting viruses. Which ended up causing me problems with one person.
I was soon on my way, teaching my students what they wanted to know, one learning faster then others, one starting out more advancded but slower on the learning process, and one seemed to be completly computer illerite. My days slowly comming to an end, I learned that teaching someone something that you have know how to do for a long time, can be a difficult task. I also learned, that sometimes, its better to just try to do your idea, and not be scared to fail, becuase thats part of life: Falling, and getting back up, and trying again. The things I would have done differently would be, finding something I knew I had access to, before I came up with an Idea. All-in-all, once I had a project that I could do, it was not hard. I enjoyed spreding my knowledge and love of computers to someone else, and I hope that enjoyed it too. |
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