At the beginning of the week, we started on our first video. This has been a major milestone as we have been working towards this for several weeks now. It feels good to finally have something really substantial like this project to be working on instead of just talking about things to do. On Wednesday, Tyler and Jacob went to the Woodland Terrace to interview the next person whom we are making the video about while I continued to work on putting the first video together. The goal is to have each video done by the time we interview our next person/couple. Overall, we are a little behind schedule with completing the video because of some technical issues with the computer at the beginning of the week, but we should be all caught up hopefully in the next 2 weeks. The video currently is a little over halfway done and should be done by Tuesday at the latest.
Overall, Im happy with the progress we've made so far. We've gotten good feedback on our project and heard a lot of good things from many people saying how they enjoy what we are doing and how they can't wait to see the finished product. I as well as my fellow group members hope to continue learning things from the elderly we visit. It has been a fun experience so far, and even though there has been some setbacks we can't wait to see what the future holds.
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We did not have a project proposal like most other groups in our class. What we are doing is a more spread out project and our goal isn't working for a specific event (for now). We did have a semi-presentation to Mr. Large to make sure our project was okay to carry out and that we were meeting the guidelines of this project. In talking to Mr. Large, we told him our goals and our timeline. Right now our timeline includes going to Woodland Terrace on Wednesdays and then working on the intergenerational videos throughout the rest of the week. It has taken several weeks of preparation and thought to get to this point so far. We have gone to Woodland Terrace the past 5 weeks talking to Caralee about project ideas, signing waivers, and discussing our rights with regards to the community members. So far what we have learned about the project is that it is going to be a lot of work putting all the videos together, and that we have to stay focused to please the people in the community as well as accomplish our individual goals.
I am working on a service project with two of my classmates Tyler Young and Jacob Ackerman. We are visiting an assisted living facility in our community called Woodland Terrace once a week, and from there we complete any tasks they need help completing and also are in the process of making intergenerational videos for the elderly in the community. We came to this project primarily because we wanted to help the community and we observed that there is a need for help in the Woodland Terrace community and also a disconnect between the elderly and the youth of today. We believe it is important for students of today to learn lessons from the elderly and to also care about the older people in the community and we feel we are helping accomplish both of those things.
What we hope to accomplish with this project is: making intergenerational videos, holding a senior prom in the spring, writing letters to the elderly during holidays, and helping with housekeeping things at the facility every once in a while. We hope that with the videos we can help the elderly convey life lessons to the youth of today, as well as have videos to share with the family of the person who the video is about. |
AuthorThe author of this blog is Ethan Westrate Archives
December 2017
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