Service Learning Experience

My service learning experience connects to my short term goals because it is helping me gain experience working with kids along the way. I'm thinking about becoming either a child psychologist or a criminal psychologist. So therefore I feel that working with children at an Elementary school is helping me gain experience interacting with them. In the future I may be doing the same thing. I feel this same way for my medium and long term goal. 

The knowledge from my service site that I will utilize to reach my goals is to just have patience and stay on the right track. I know that with kids I have to be patient because some can be hard to work with. I know that I will have to continue being on track and staying positive, the same way I am at my service site.

Understanding past issues of diversity and tolerance can help me define these goals by trying to be more open minded. By being more open minded to others diversity I will be able to accept other people for their different culture or background. I know I will come across a lot of different people in my future. 

Social Media

What is your reaction to the presentation last week on “Netiquette” and what will you be doing differently after having heard Tracy speak?  Do you believe social media will impact you at your learning site and/or in your future career, and how?

My reaction to the presentation last week is that it was very interesting. A point that Tracy mentioned that stood out to me was about how everything that we post online can eventually catch up to you if it is negative. This is an important point about privacy because you will never make a clear defined line between your private life and your educational or even work life. Many people are unaware of their privacy settings on things like Twitter and Facebook and they may post something from their private life that may not be needed to know. 

What me, personally, will be doing differently online is making sure that I just don't post anything that I wouldn't want an employer or even my mom to look at. Chances are that if its THAT inappropriate it shouldn't be said publicly online anyways.

I don't think that social media will impact my worksite, this is because I'm going to be working with kids and I cant have any outside connection with them. However when it comes to my future career, I will just limit my life to  having a work side, and then a personal side. But as of now, I don't have anything negative in the social media. If anything I have good things because of situations I've had in school. For example, my blogs and things I've been apart of in in high school.

Community Service

A way that I expect the community that I am serving to satisfy me is by everyone doing their own fair share of helping the community also. Serving my community makes me feel like a better person at the end of the day. I think that if everyone took the time to be involved in some type of community service that they'd feel better about themselves too. It would satisfy me to see more people engage in helping each other in our community instead of everyone doing things for themselves only.

Two ways that I will take responsibility for that community is: One, by making sure I fulfill all the hours of community service that I need to plus more. By doing this I know that I will feel like a achieved something great. And by two, encouraging others to partake in community service. I could encourage my friends to do things for people in our community that doesn't involve in receiving money. If I do this I know I can make a difference within the community not by just actively DOING community service but by telling others to be involved too.