The Start of Practice Presentations

Tomorrow we begin practicing for our final presentations. I feel as though my presentation is about 90% complete. I just need to finish my introduction, note cards, and add a few pictures. I was thinking about using leftover posters and giveaways to give to my panel when I speak about my health fair. I'm not sure how I want to introduce my topic and am really trying to think of something creative.

I'm not too nevous about public speaking, just that my project will go smoothly and I don't forget anything. Also, I want to make sure I don't bore my audience with facts and statistics and my pictures go along with everything.

It's hard to believe it's already November and our presentations are only 11 days away. I just want everything to go right and get everything over with.

Action Plan: Complete!

I am finally done with my action plan. On Monday, I had my health fair in the school cafeteria. There was a decent turnout and I had a great amount of help from my classmates that volunteered to help out. Unfrtunetly, one participant was unable to show up due to the flu. (Ironic, right?) But other than that, things went pretty smoothly. I got a few video clips and a lot of pictures, so I hope to edit them soon. I'm not sure if I'll use the video yet or not, but I will definitely make a slideshow of pictures for my presentation.

Less than one month until we have to be done with our projects. We start practing presentations November 6th..Yikes. I hope I get done in time. I turned in my Self-Edit (finally..) and am waiting for Casey to get done with her paper (I think she has more written than me!) and then we can get our peer editing done.

I started working on my website...I have a design figured out and all that. I just need to know what pages and information I'm going to include. Hmmm. I'm not exactly sure what we need to have. Hopefully Mr. Mays gets well soon because I could really use his help on this website. It's sure is a good thing I remember how to use Dreamweaver..Although, I'm not so strong in Photoshop (I have Casey helping me with that).

Hopefully time doesn't fly by too soon, and I get everything done and done well.

One Week!

There is one week left until my health fair action plan. Mostly everything is planned completely, and I just really hope everthing goes as planned.

Unfortunetly, working on my action plan has distracted me from my literature review, so I'm really trying to get that and the self review finished ASAP (or by Friday or else).

Nurse Check In

I talked with the school nurse again today, and she was very helpful. She said that I have a good start as far as organizations go and I hope she's right.
A few things the nurse suggested that she's trying to get to come is:

• A nutritionist
• Flu shots
• A blacklight to show the difference between your hands before and after they are washed
• Dental health

Also, I recently e-mailed Monica Naik from the Neurology Department at Children's Hospital, who used to be my doctor. I'm hoping I can either interview her or she can attend the health fair for my own table relating to headaches and migraines.

Making Progress

I was finally able to talk to Mr. Zinga on Thursday and talk about using the cafeteria and my plans for the health fair. He suggested talking to the school nurse. Ms. Savido and I went to talk to the nurse and she is glad to help out.
So, I created a list of all of the health organizations I have contacted (and might contact) and their responses to send to the nurse. I'm hoping she can help me to set this up and maybe recommend a few more organizations to contact. Since the nurse is new this year, I still need to explain how parent conference day works, and figure out the time the health fair will run(afternoon or evening).
I finished and turned in the rewritten rubric and outline for my research paper, so now I just have to start the paper. I might use my proposal to get my ideas flowing.
Since we have off Wednesday through Friday for the G20, and I am not coming tomorrow, I hope I can get some things done while we're off. My goal is to start my research paper and to continue contacting organizations and making concrete plans for the health fair.

Problems

I've come across a few problems with my grad project lately. Although I have my computer back, the internet has been really slow lately, making it difficult to complete my notes. I did finish my works cited and have all of the sources for the notes, it's just trying to access them that's the problem. Yesterday, I thought I lost my grad project folder, but luckily it was just hidden in my locker. I am really trying to work on making sure I can have my action plan ready soon, but I'm going to have to call the organizations because they don't respond to e-mails very well.

FINALLY

So, I finally got my laptop back, even though I don't even think it's the one that I turned in..
After figuring out some password and H-drive issues, I was finally able to start working on my graduation project on it. I am currently waiting to talk to Ms. Savido about my action plan so that I can give more notice to organizations and students. I still need to send a letter (which I wrote today) to Wertheimer to make sure I can use the school cafeteria. I finished my list of students with health topics and should probably talk to them soon.
I contacted organizations and possible places that can donate refreshments yesterday online, but I have to call all of them, too.
I really hope I can pull off this action plan and that it is successful.
I still need to finish my notes and outline (because of my computer), so I'm going to try to work on my grad project over the 3-day weekend.