So recently everyone in grade nine got a chance to go to one of their parents workplaces and truely see what it’s like. So my dad works at Global News and he is one of the Chief Editors for the news stories, my mom works as a Department Head. My dad says he didn’t want me in his line of business, so I had no option but to go to my moms work which wasn’t bad!

Here are some pictures of the campus:

Building B

Interior of Building B

Building A

I really enjoyed the experience and one of my favourite things was seeing the automotive crew students working on the cars! Something that surprised me the most was that everyone had a job, there were some things I have never even heard of. I’m not sure if I would consider a job here but there are so many to choose so I don’t know atleast yet. The job was positively a nice workspace and you can meet lots of people and learn and teach new things with them, but negatively the counselling part (my moms job) is very stressful I think, because you need to listen to a lot of people’s problems and that can sometimes bring you down. I think this experience sort of influenced my career goals and choices in the way that I now know there is lots of different jobs and opportunities to choose from and that is great!

 

Interviews for Various people of the College

Interviewee 1: Dave Stevenson – Student Services Manager

Interviewee 2: Tanny Marks – Arbiter of Student Issues

Interviewee 3: Catherine Mcnaughton – VP of VCC

Question 1: What are the essential skills necessary to perform your job.

Interviewee 1: Communication skills and expirience with students.

Interviewee 2: Active listening skills, writing skills, reading, pull apart concepts.

Interviewee 3: Ability to really listen well followed closely by respecting the skills of those around you and supporting their growth and development.

Question 2: What are some of the duties performed during a typical day? Week? Month? Year?

Interviewee 1: Helping students, listening and helping them reach maximum performance level in learning.

Interviewee 2: Writing Reports, Intake, Research, Attend Meeting, helping to resolve systemic problems.

Interviewee 3: Writing reports, researching about the students and the employees, attends meetings throughout the colledge, speaking engagements.

Question 3: What are the academic qualifications for your position?

Interviewee 1: Masters or Ph.D degree.

Interviewee 2: A university degree. Masters.

Interviewee 3: Ph.D degree

Question 4: What are the employment prospects in your field.

Interviewee 1: Small, not many.

Interviewee 2: They are pretty bad, small field.

Interviewee 3: Small, hard to achieve and be at the position of power.

I had a great time! I hope you enjoyed learning about my experience too!

so long,

Quinn

 

My group and I are almost done our Rube Goldberg machine based on metaphors related to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution of China, with a theme of steampunk, and last time the blog post was very bland and now I can fix some of that but this time we are almost finished, (practically are, but I don’t know what Willemse and Hughes would say). Fail, fail again, fail better, F.A.I.L = first attempt in learning.

Here is a picture of it

 

Sorry I do not know why it is sideways, anyway as you can see there is silver and bronze tones which are both very “steampunky” colours in my opinion and many others will agree, I feel like the black accompanies it very nicely too.

Anyways, that was a good look at our “Metaphor Machine” and I will keep you posted with the video and more information in a following blog post.

so long,

Quinn