Like weeks past, I spent this week preparing for future weeks. This week, though, I got to inch ever closer to making this link between data and action. I spent Monday putting the final edits on my work plan, using the goals set out in the original grant agreement from the Shinnyo-en Foundation as well as the action items that Jana and I had come up with at Redwood City 2020. With this work plan, we nailed down concrete goals and projects and timeframes within which to complete these goals and projects. These goals included heading up a project about preschools in the area, putting together a series of youth development resources, and, of course, keeping up with this blog. I'm sure new projects will continue to pop up, so this work plan is intentionally pretty flexible, but it's still nice to have a general guideline off of which to work. And I’m incredibly excited to have more on my plate. I’ve always felt that I perform better with more responsibilities, so I hope to be efficient and effective as my role continues to grow.
Besides more meetings (YDA and staff meetings at the Gardner Center), I didn’t do much out of the ordinary this week. I started becoming familiar with Prezi, a more dynamic way of giving presentations, for my presentation at the Gardner Center on October 10. Thus far, I’m finding that you have to think very differently from planning out a presentation for PowerPoint. Things are zooming in and out, and there’s so much more possibility for artistic freedom, which I like a lot; I feel like a director making a movie about circles and arrows. Check out my practice Prezi here; it’s not about anything, I was just playing around with the frames and colors. But it was a lot of fun (Don’t click through too fast, you might get motion sick)!
“Stepping Stones” refers to these baby steps that I’m making toward translating this data I’ve been compiling into action. I started out doing lots of reading, and now I’m getting more and more opportunities to use what I’ve read to make a tangible difference. Please continue to follow me on this journey!
Besides more meetings (YDA and staff meetings at the Gardner Center), I didn’t do much out of the ordinary this week. I started becoming familiar with Prezi, a more dynamic way of giving presentations, for my presentation at the Gardner Center on October 10. Thus far, I’m finding that you have to think very differently from planning out a presentation for PowerPoint. Things are zooming in and out, and there’s so much more possibility for artistic freedom, which I like a lot; I feel like a director making a movie about circles and arrows. Check out my practice Prezi here; it’s not about anything, I was just playing around with the frames and colors. But it was a lot of fun (Don’t click through too fast, you might get motion sick)!
“Stepping Stones” refers to these baby steps that I’m making toward translating this data I’ve been compiling into action. I started out doing lots of reading, and now I’m getting more and more opportunities to use what I’ve read to make a tangible difference. Please continue to follow me on this journey!
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