Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection
Life, anyone’s life for that matter is worth fighting for, and even if the best outcome is not the biggest, it is not the most useful.
1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?
The most important thing I learned from my mentor is the best outcome from approaching anyone who is suicidal, is not that they pledge to never commit suicide but in fact helping that person step down from their immediate urge and provide them with hope to continue wanting to make a difference in their own lives regardless. At the moment you talk to someone and address suicide, all of the attention is on that person, and that person only, it is their moment to be heard and have support and if anyone is able to listen and provide them with the time and proper encouragement they can at least provide a glimmer of hope. A small glimmer can grow and expand to completely modify the life path they are choosing for themselves. Instead of ending their life, they allow themselves to see past that to a world where their issues have solutions. It was being able to understand how the best outcome of approach does not have to be a complete elimination of the entire problem in one sitting, but in reality it is just pushing for one more day of life.
2. How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
Overall my approach to my interviews has changed drastically from my first one to this one, particularly because I hid behind my mentor for the first two. Although I was able to get a constructive amount of information throughout my first two interviews, it was this third interview that provided me with a different perspective on helping those who need it. Lizette Martinez, the Volunteer Coordinator at the Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center in Culver City was very open to her experience in suicide prevention and on her background as a volunteer for over 4 years. I was able to get to know Ms. Martinez just by a conversation and was able to find her muse through wanting to help others by preventing suicide - the most preventable form of death. Her current passion has allowed me to have a deeper understanding of why people help each other, and most importantly, has allowed me to branch for ideas for my second independent component which has been to create a campaign to create suicide prevention awareness.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval
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1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
For my second independent, I plan working alongside Katie Lopez in order to create a campaign on suicide prevention/awareness which will be directed towards adolescents, teaching about the different aspects and factors that go into suicide prevention. The goal of the campaign is to promote and educate the public through the use of PSAs on digital and tangible platforms - including but not limited to: Posters, websites, blogs, and commercials. We also hope to be able to fundraise some money to be able to donate to non-profit organizations that are currently researching different approaches to suicide prevention - the details on how this fundraiser will take part are still in the works as we need to talk to our house teachers.
The name of our campaign will be called “keep aiming as it will focus on looking at the silver lining from each personal problem and individual can have. In order for an arrow to shoot forwards it needs to be held back, just like the issues presented by the USA
2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
I intend on logging how often I work on this project, and I will also be dedicating my time to speak to different classes on suicide prevention to educate our grade and potentially our whole school. During iFest we will try to find volunteers who would be willing to help promote our campaign or learn about the topic of suicide.
3. Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
This component will allow me to explore my topic more in depth because I will be focusing on the advertising and actual awareness of suicide prevention adding a layer of understanding to this complicated web. In educating the public, I hope to be able to provide the tools that one day could save lives.
4. Independent Component 2
Friday, February 5, 2016
Independent Component 1
LITERAL
- I, Jocelyn Sanchez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours hours of work.
- (b) Works Cited
- (d) Explain what you completed.
- Throughout the course of my 30 hours I worked with Gennesis Romero to create an accessible online platform (WordPress) which the public can use to help identify different disorder and major contributors that can affect the mental health of an elderly once they reach the approximate age of 60 years. We also created a Pintrest platform to reach the ages of those 15-25 and created an Instagram account to target teenagers so that they will want to care for their grandparents or elder members of their family or life.
INTERPRETIVE
- Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.
APPLIED
- How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better? Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
- This component made it simple for me to learn about my topic because I was able to specifically research components that are also major contributors on suicide. Although we did cover suicide plenty, it was not the entire purpose of our blog. The purpose was to educate the public and in doing research both Gennesis and myself were given the opportunity to expand our horizons on our topics. Since I had prior knowledge to the elderly, and her topic was geriatrics, I was able to provide her with some tools that I had found prior to this project. As for myself, the research I put into this blog also allowed me to look deeper into aspects like abandonment and abuse that dragged me further into the science that leads to suicide, and I probably would not have gotten so intrigued if it were not for this.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Lesson 2 Reflection
1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
Out of everything for my Lesson 2 Presentation, I am most proud of making time. I had practiced multiple times before but every time I practiced I always went over time. Right before my presentation I made the decision to get rid of several slides of content which brought me to around 21 minutes of speaking. It took a lot of moving around, and I felt like the basic, necessary information got across. In addition to that, I also felt like I was able to reach several people as I received several offers for IC#2 opportunities which I believe may serve me well in my future.
2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?
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2. b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
In all honesty, I believe I could have presented a lot more appropriately but I allowed my nerves get in the way of my ability to present. Although I did present the requirements, I felt that my overall communication could have been better. My voice was quite shaky and I spoke very quickly trying to get my points across, before running out of time. Even though I did make time, I spoke too fast which could have caused an issue with my clarity of thought.
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
What went in my presentation, I suppose may have been my hook activity. I wanted to reach a happy, quick mood before I got into the very depressing content I would later present. I am thinking of different ways to bettering my presentation so that I can give off a lighter tone that the one I did in this one. I do not think I’ll try story-time the way I did during this presentation, because it was quite messy and in the end did not contribute as much as I thought it would when I practiced, So it served as a learning experience for my final presentation.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
If I had a time machine I would completely take out the “story-time” segment because I do not feel it had a positive effect to my presentation. I just could have easily said the stories throughout my presentation instead of collecting it all at once. I would have also kept my slide on the 4 main stages of suicide, in order to give a better basis on suicide as a whole than just several definitions and types. I would minimize the amount of time I focused only on risk factors and warning signs so that I could talk more about approaching someone who is suicidal, and maintain a well rounded presentation.
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
My second answer, is going to be knowing the proper procedure and approach someone should use when they decide to talk to a person who is suicidal. For example, in this presentation I briefly touched upon the most important characteristic when approaching someone who is suicidal, being non judgmental. In my third interview, I focused upon this with Lizette Martinez and have collected sufficient information on this regard and I hope that teaching people how to approach someone will lighten the whole fact that people commit suicide. Now that the students know they signs to watch out for, I can provide them with more tools to be able to help their friends, family, peers and anyone else who they come across - even a stranger.
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