Senior Project 2019

Today I went to the Communications department at 9:00 am for the last time. I basically just finalized things with Scott today. He filled out my Mentor evaluation form, Looked over my project again and signed my timesheet. He allowed me to use the time to work on my board for express fest and it is in good shape now. I printed out work that I have done in the past few weeks to put up on the board and designed signs I printed out for the board. I left at 11am.

Today I went to the Communications department at 9. At 9:30 we the weekly meeting with the whole team. Scott asked me what my plan is for the week and I told him tomorrow ill probably on my express fest booth during our time and he allowed this. Since I still need a few more hours I used the time today Continuing the audit of the proctor website. I made it through the athletic page and felt good about the work I had done. I left at 12. I have finalized the first draft of my reflection and I feel good about having it finished by express fest. Today's hours: 9-12 total: 48/50

Weekly Reflection #3 5/19/19 Hours so far: 45/50 This week I learned many things. I learned how to Audit a website. After I had finished my blog post and the parent page Scott came up with some other things for me to do. One of which was an audit of the Proctor website. An audit is going through every page of the website and looking for anything that should be changed. Old photos, videos that could use an update, Links that don’t work etc. This takes a long time but you feel that you are doing something productive. I learned that this how a lot of the work that they do here feels. Overall I have liked what I have been doing here because I feel that I have been productive and have helped the school. This week I felt frustrated sometimes when I couldn’t get responses for various things. My email about the form for the senior class piece did not get enough responses so I had to use my time to go around and tell seniors to fill it out. I also had to make sure I got a diverse gro...

Today I went to the office at 9:00am and began working. I finished up my work with the Green-book for next year, which was going through and pointing out the changes that need to be made. Then I did an audit of the Proctor website. This meant I had to go through every page and see if anything needs to be changed. this took a long time and I only made it through a small amount of the website. I found many videos and photos that need to be changed because they are from a while ago. With Senior Project coming to a close, I am proud of the work I have done and I am excited for express fest. Today's hours 9-12. 45/50 total.

Today I went to the communications department at 9:00am and began working. Scott told me I needed one more interview for the Blog post, A female voice, so I reached out to Essence and she gave me a good quote in no time. I then went to the dining hall to gather some more question of the week responses and then went to assembly because I told Adam Jones I would meet with him right after to talk with him about my Capstone Project. The meeting went a little longer than I expected but I was back in the Office in time for the lockdown drill at 11. For the next hour I worked a little on going through the green book and helping out with the changes that need to be made. I will continue to work on that tomorrow. I left at 12. Hours: 9-12. Total: 42/50

Today I went to the communications department at 9 and started worked on my blog post. at 9:30 I went for a walk to the dining hall. I worked on my blog post for a bit there then saw Scott. He told me to gather the question of the week from people. I asked seniors in the dining hall to fill out my form for the magazine piece on the seniors. I went back to the communications department at 10 and put out the stories for the sports games today. At 5:30 I went to the theater for the run through of the musical and got quotes from Sam Wyckoff for the blog post. I finished it up there. I also got people there to answer the question of the week. my hours today were 9-12. 39/50 hours

Today I went into the office at 9am and began working on my blog post for the week. I contacted members of the cast to get quotes for the blog. at 9:30 I went around campus think about my writing. It was a nice breath of fresh air. I came back at 10 and continued to work on the writing for a bit, then Worked on the Senior class piece for the magazine. I gathered photos of the people who sent responses. 15 people responded and Scott told me that I needed more. from 12-1 I went around campus gathering responses from seniors. I also Emailed Melanie to get a quote for the Girl's tennis spotlight. My weeks are full of things to do and I enjoy staying on top of things. Todays hours: 9-1 36/50 hours

Today was a shorter day but I was very busy. I went into the communications department at 9 and we had a meeting with the whole team. I enjoy sitting in on and contributing to these meetings. It's really interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes at proctor in the professional world. I started my blog post on the spring musical and did some work for sport update stories for the Proctor instagram. I left at 11:00 because I was going to Adam Jones's digital storytelling class to present my Capstone project for my Global Citizenship Concentration. it went well and people in the group showed interest. Today was a good day. Hours: 9-11. 32/50 hours

Total hours so far: 30/50     This week was another week of learning for me. I got a lot of insight as to how much work is put in by the communications department. I’ve found that creating the Instagram stories takes a lot of time. I use canva to do the sports game updates and the other project I did on alumni parents of the class of 2019. Scott told me that the stories take a long time and that’s why they don't do them. I’m glad I can help and so some of the less important, but beneficial work that the community enjoys. Earlier in the week I went around campus and took pictures of seniors working on their projects. I had fun doing this. For the parent page, I sent out another email for the question of the week but did not get enough responses. I think people were busy on earth day and weren't checking email. I’ve also had to send a lot of mass emails on this project which, as a student, I know gets annoying. On Friday I worked with Scott on publishing my blog posts to the we...

Today I went to the communications department at 9:00am. I worked on stories for the games happening on Friday and Saturday. This ended up taking longer than expected because I gathered images from the Flickr and used canva to produce posts. Then I posted the ones for Friday and worked with Scott on publishing my blog post on senior projects. We had to gather images to and resize them. I learned that there is a lot that goes into publishing the blog posts like coming up with creative titles and putting links in for the photos and other blogs. Today was another productive day. (3 hours) 30/50 hours

Today I went to the communications department at 9:00am and worked on more stories for the instagram. I finished up the alumni parents story and worked on more for sports events. These will go out tomorrow and on Saturday before games. Then I worked on the parent page and got people to answer the question of the week. for the faculty panel Scott asked me to interview Gavin King, the dance choreographer for the musical. I caught him during rehearsal and we did the interview. Another great day of senior project. (3 hours) 27/50 hours

Today I went to the Communications department at 9:00am to begin a full 6 hour day to make up for the hours I missed when I was gone from school Monday. I began with working on the blog post for this week. I'm focusing on talking about the projects of Joey and Eric, Lucas and Augie,  Jada and Aidan and Caitlin. I gathered Photos of them from their special instagram accounts, pics they have sent me and Flickr. at 10:00am I went to caitlin and Aidans van and took pictures. Later I worked on the parent page. After lunch I finished up my work on the Class of 2019 and their alumni parents piece. Today was a long and productive day and I left at 3. (6 hours). 24/50 hours

I spent the weekend at home and was home on Monday. On Tuesday I got back to campus at 11:45. I went to the communications department at 12:00pm. I began working on the blog post for the buzz this week. This week I'm writing about Senior Project 2019. I'm going to update the greater community on what is going on in the lives of seniors on senior project right now. I'm focusing on Ben Levisay, Joey and Eric, Augie and Lucas, and Jada (Since they sent me photos).  I went to the blogs and got Excerpts from each of their posts to put into the article. I then worked a little on the parent page to finish the day. (12-3) 18/50 hours

This week: 15/50 hours. I have learned a lot this past week interning with the Communications department. My past three years here I have seen Proctor as a school and a place where I live, learn and have friends. This past week I have stepped out of this world and am starting to see Proctor as more a business. The way our school is communicated to the public is extremely important and there are many people that we need to show what’s going on at school to. So far I’ve enjoyed working with the Proctor instagram and producing stories. I feel like my generation are the most skilled people in the world at social media having grown up with it at our fingertips. For me to be able to run it, I feel that I can adequately show the kinds of things students want to see out of their School’s social media.  Along with this I enjoyed working on the parent page. I was able to ask students for the question of the week which I had fun doing. I have done a lot of work this week with Blog posts, ...

Today I went to the communications department at 9:00am. I worked on a piece about members of the class of 2019 whose parents went to Proctor. There are quite a bit parents and I went through old yearbooks gathering pictures of these peoples parents at Proctor. I gathered the results from the cereal poll posted the next round. Then I came up with Ideas for the proctor magazine piece on the senior class. I will send out a google from asking students what their favorite proctor memory is. today I worked from 9-12. 15/50 hours

Today I went to the communications department at 9:00am. I finished up my work on the parent page and sent around an email asking for students to do the question of the week. I put up a fun poll on the instagram where I asked people to eliminate their least favorite cereal. tomorrow I will tally up the votes and put the poll up again. by the end only one will remain and that will be the communities favorite cereal. I met with Derek and asked him about the future plans for the interdisciplinary concentration program. I finished up my blog post on this shortly after. Today was another productive day. (3 hours) 12/50 hours

Today I started working on this weeks parent page at 9am. I Used Kaley Farmer's article Hornet's nest article on Brooke Haynes for the faculty spotlight, gathered info on the senior speakers and worked on the Question of the week. I then used Canva to create instagram stories about the games today. I then walked around campus taking pictures. After this I came back and worked on my blog post for the week. Another productive morning. hours: 9-12. 9/50 hours

Today I went over to the communications department at 9:00am. I began working on this weeks blog post for the buzz. Then I created a post for the instagram where I polled students for suggestions. I walked around campus gathering content and capturing various things. Then I came back and worked more on the blog post. For the parent page this week I reached out to Karin, Megan, and Melanie to get information on the community day this Saturday. I also contacted Pete to use a Hornet's nest article for the Faculty spotlight. I left around 12:00. (today was 3 hours) 6/50 hours